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Millionaire claims Liverpool owners FSG made 'recent' Rangers approach
Scottish multi-millionaire claims Jim McColl claims FSG have approached him about investing in Rangers
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BY THEO SQUIRES
13:30, 29 MAR 2020
Liverpool owner John W Henry at Anfield
Liverpool owner John W Henry at Anfield
Liverpool have inevitably formed close ties with Rangers since Reds legend Steven Gerrard took over as ‘Gers manager in June 2018.
However, recent claims suggest the two clubs could have grown ever more closely-aligned with Liverpool owners Fenway Sports Group supposedly interested in investing in the Scottish giants.
That’s according to Scottish multi-millionaire Jim McColl.
The businessmen is one of Scotland’s richest men with an estimated personal fortune of £1.1 billion, and was part of a consortium which tried to buy the Ibrox club from liquidators BDO back in 2012, while he was donated 10,000 shares to supporters group Rangers First in 2015 in a bid to remove the former hierarchy.
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And in an interview with author and entrepreneur Rob Moore, quoted by the Glasgow Times, McColl has claimed FSG recently contacted him to see if he’d be interested in teaming up, taking over Rangers and using Moneyball techniques to resurrect their fortunes with John W. Henry said to be fascinated by the method.
“At no time in my mind was I going to buy it,” he said. “Although, I might think differently now because I was learning about this technique that was used in Moneyball.
"That is what’s happening in Liverpool. It is the same technique they’re using. You see them 22 points ahead of everybody else (Now 25 points) using this technique. So that’s a thought.
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“In fact, 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.
“Not that I’ll ever do it, but it’s nice to think about them being 22 points ahead of Celtic.”
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