Liverpool American owner ready to sell club for $2BILLION
Liverpool may soon be up for sale after billionaire owner John W Henry ‘quietly signalled’ he is willing to relinquish control of the Anfield club.
American Henry also owns the Boston Red Sox – winners of this year’s World Series – and the New York Post are reporting that he is currently ‘running a passive sales process’ for Liverpool.
In short, the paper report that he is entertaining offers in private, and would only accept a price north of $2billion.
A source is alleged to have said: ‘It’s for sale if he can get the right place.’
Liverpool have always publicly insisted that the club is not for sale, while Sportsmail understands Anfield chiefs believe $2bn would be undervaluing the club in the current market. 
The club would welcome additional investment but it makes little sense for the Fenway Sports Group to relinquish total control at this time.
It has been a busy month for Henry away from the North West of England… he was pictured popping champagne at the end of October as the Red Sox beat the Los Angeles Dodgers to win a historic World Series.
The 69-year-old has regularly been seen at Anfield in the eight years since he purchased the club for £366m, watching them come close to Champions League success last season.
The New York Post report that neither Henry’s representatives nor Fenway Sports Group would respond to calls for comment.
This latest update on Liverpool comes just months after Sportsmail revealed that a cousin of Manchester City owner Sheik Mansour failed in a stunning £2bn proposal to buy the club.
Sheik Khaled Bin Zayed Al Nehayan, an Emirati member of the family who govern Abu Dhabi, approached representatives of Liverpool’s owners over the course of several months in late 2017 and into early 2018.
He then made a £2bn offer that would have constituted the most expensive takeover in the history of football.
Sheik Khaled, although he does not possess the immense wealth of City’s billionaire owner Sheik Mansour, is one of the most successful entrepreneurs in the Gulf states.
Midhat Kidwai, the managing director of Sheik Khaled’s conglomerate of companies, also met Liverpool chairman Tom Werner in New York.
Sportsmail accessed documents outlining the buyout that would have been a joint venture between Sheik Khaled and a minority stake Chinese partner.
Liverpool insisted at the time that discussions eventually failed and added that although Werner met Kidwai in New York, the deal never reached the stage where major shareholders John W Henry or Michael Gordon met the Abu Dhabi investors.