Lots of Rangers fans have been commenting on the links to Liverpool owners Fenway Sports Group, which emerged over the weekend after comments from Jim McColl.
FSG have transformed Liverpool since they bought the Merseyside club for £300m in 2010, with Jurgen Klopp’s Reds now the dominant force in England and Europe, currently holding the Champions League, Super Cup and Club World Cup titles and on track for their first Premier League title if football resumes as normal after the current break in the action.
And, according to McColl, the American group are interested in applying their ‘Moneyball’ tactics at Ibrox. Via The Liverpool Echo, McColl commented: “We were approached recently to see if we were interested in looking at it again. The people who have invested in Liverpool would be interested in looking at it with us and applying the same techniques.
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“Not that I’ll ever do it, but it’s nice to think about them being 22 points ahead of Celtic.”
Despite the rather definitive sounding final comment that he’s unlikely to ever do it, plenty of fans are already getting excited by the links.
Other supporters have concerns over the news, with some suspecting FSG or their potential partners may overspend and leave them in another sticky situation.
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Some even have doubts over whether they could play in Europe under investment from Liverpool’s owners – this would likely not be an issue, given that FSG would merely be investors, not the owners, and Red Bull-owned sides Leipzig and Salzburg have even played each other in European competition.
Finally, there are of course those are who believe this link is purely speculation, questioning why McColl would announce a potential deal in a throwaway comment as part of a different interview, while others point towards the fact that his words do seem to suggest he has no real interest in buying the club.