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Dave Powell

FSG handed blunt Man City reminder of £368m task as Liverpool sale reports emerge

The challenge facing Liverpool to compete with Manchester City has been demonstrated after the latter became the first club in Premier League history to have a squad costing £1bn or more.

The Etihad outfit this morning published their financial accounts for the 2021/22, a season when they won their sixth Premier League title. Later in the day a report from The Athletic claimed that Fenway Sports Group, Liverpool's owners, have put the club up for sale.

Revenues of £613m, the second highest in Premier League history, the first-ever squad in the top flight to cost more than £1bn. and commercial revenues of £309m - a figure some £91m higher than that of Liverpool's in 2020/21 - made for what City chairman Khaldoon Al-Mubarak described in an accompanying statement as "the most successful financial year in the club's history". That was backed up the fact that they made a record profit of £41.7m.

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