Gary Neville has repeated concerns around American investment in the Premier League amid the potential takeover of Bournemouth.
Cherries owner Maxim Demin has held exclusive talks with a US consortium - led by businessman and owner of ice hockey team Vegas Golden Knights, Bill Foley - over a potential sale of the club for around £150million. Should the takeover be successful, it would mean more than half of the 20 top-flight clubs had some sort of investment from across the Atlantic.
One of those is Liverpool, who are majority owned by Fenway Sports Group - chaired by John Henry - and former Manchester United captain Neville has once again warned of such investment amid the news of Bournemouth’s potential sale, tweeting: "I think we know what's happening here."
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The former Manchester United full-back has been a vocal opposer to American investment in English football recently, with some claims that high-profile US businessmen ‘just don’t get’ football.
Initially, he took to Twitter to write: "I keep saying it but the quicker we get the regulator in the better. US investment into English football is a clear and present danger to the pyramid and fabric of the game. They just don't get it and think differently. They also don't stop till they get what they want!"
And the part-owner of League Two club Salford also retweeted a reply from another account claiming: "Four more American owners and they can change the constitution to stop relegation."
Should the Bournemouth takeover be successful, Foley and his consortium will join the likes of FSG, the Glazer family and Todd Boehly - whose investment group bought Chelsea for a sports-franchise record £4.25billion - in an ever-growing list of US-based majority shareholders in English top-flight football.
Liverpool have been owned by the American group - who also own baseball’s Boston Red Sox and hockey team Pittsburgh Penguins - since 2010 when they bought the club from George Gillett and Tom Hicks for £300million.
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