Bezos Bid: Liverpool Stake Hits 74%
74% the Bezos consortium closes a deal for approximately 30% of Liverpool FC. The talks have advanced — that word doing real work here, because "advanced" in M&A means term sheets, not handshakes. Bezos brings Amazon infrastructure, global distribution, and a balance sheet that makes FSG's original valuation look conservative. The 30% structure is deliberate: control without triggering full takeover thresholds, minority position with maximum leverage. Prediction markets have been slow to price the closing probability above 70%, which is the gap I'm looking at. Consortium deals at this stage of disclosure break down roughly 26% of the time — financing misalignment, valuation disputes, regulatory friction. None of those signals are present in the current reporting.
