Your evening Liverpool headlines for Monday, November 28.
Liverpool FA Cup opponents confirmed after third round draw
Liverpool will commence their defence of the FA Cup at home to Wolverhampton Wanderers.
The Reds have been drawn against the Premier League's lowest-ranked side, who have only recorded two wins all season and sacked former manager Bruno Lage in October with the club rooted to the bottom of the table.
The Midlands outfit will make the trip to Anfield between January 6 and 9, with the tie sandwiching the Reds' league fixtures against Brentford and Brighton & Hove Albion, respectively.
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Former Spain, Real Madrid and Sevilla manager Julen Lopetegui, who won the 2021 Europa League, will take the reins for the visit to Merseyside after being appointed as Lage's successor earlier this month. However, is yet to take charge of a competitive game.
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Gary Neville has got it wrong about Liverpool again and 'crazy' Manchester United price proves it
Premier League teams as part of the 'big six' rarely hit the market.
Combined, prior to the sale of Chelsea earlier this year there were 97 years of ownership between Liverpool, Manchester United, Manchester City, Chelsea, Arsenal and Tottenham Hotspur.
Sanctions placed upon Roman Abramovich in the wake of the Russian military invasion of Ukraine earlier this year, imposed due to Abramovich's historical ties to Russian president Vladimir Putin, saw Chelsea become the first club since 2010, when Stan Kroenke completed a full takeover of Arsenal after purchasing the shareholdings of Danny Fiszman and Nina Bracewell-Smith, to change hands.
Kroenke was already a shareholder at Arsenal prior to that takeover, with the last major ownership overhaul prior to the Todd Boehly/Clearlake Capital/Hansjorg Wyss consortium at Chelsea earlier this year arriving when Liverpool owners Fenway Sports Group took over from the near ruinous regime of Tom Hicks and George Gillett at Anfield in 2010, a deal concluded for £300m.
The nature of the Chelsea takeover, where a whole host of billionaires and investment funds entered the race, provided some food for thought for other owners of the major powers in the Premier League, the £2.5bn sale price giving the clearest indication for some as to how buoyant the market was and how much these teams, as major assets with global reach, may be worth.
FSG, who acquired the Reds for £300m in 2010, had been seeking third party investment for more than a year and had engaged major US banks Goldman Sachs and Morgan Stanley to handle interest. Earlier this month that search expanded to allow any parties willing to part with £3bn plus to make their interest known to representatives of the two banking giants should they wish to discuss a full sale.
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