New figures have demonstrated just why owning a Premier League football club is such a valuable asset.
While the Glazer family looks set to relinquish their majority shareholding in Manchester United in the coming weeks, there has been much noise around the prospect of them maintaining a minority position in the Red Devils as they seek to continue to have a hand in the continued success of the world’s most successful football league.
In the case of Liverpool, while owners Fenway Sports Group formalised a search for investment at the back end of last year, seeking to sell a minority stake in the Reds, the intention was to keep hold of the club that they have owned since 2010 while finding ways to secure the capital required for future growth and to ensure that they remained part of the elite group that has dominated the Premier League and European landscape for some time.
