Liverpool secure minority investment from Dynasty Equity as FSG make statement

Fenway Sports Group’s search for investment in Liverpool has reached a conclusion, with the Reds owners reaffirming that they are not looking at an exit route from the club.

New York-based Dynasty Equity, have taken a small minority position in the club, with the move designed to clear the club’s bank debt and not to fund transfer market activity. The value of the deal has not been disclosed but is understood to be between $100m and $200m. There will be no change in operational control at the football club.

Since November 2022, when it emerged that FSG had created a sales deck to present to potential investors, investment talk has dominated much of the discourse around the football club off the field.

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John W. Henry, FSG chief and Liverpool’s principal owner, had made it clear earlier in the year that the club was not for sale, and the closing of the deal with Dynasty Equity draws a line under the matter, with the ECHO understanding that there is no further search for a minority partner now being conducted and the club is not, and has never been, for sale.

Talks of potential interest from sovereign wealth funds such as the Qatar Investment Authority were erroneous, with ECHO sources in the US close to the matter stating on several occasions that no such talks ever took place.

The potential for a partner that could help the club grow off the field by bringing on board additional expertise as well as capital had been considered, but a move to bring Dynasty Equity on board solves a debt issue that FSG had been seeking to address, placing the club on an even sounder