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Football Daily | Back to the playground of the disgustingly rich: it’s club football!

Football Daily | Back to the playground of the disgustingly rich: it’s club football!

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Sign up now! Sign up now! Sign up now? Sign up now! Hmmm, should I order in a pizza tonight ? How does this basic question translate to the monstrously rich, to those operating in the hundreds of billions? Maybe it’s as simple as this: hmmm, should I join a consortium looking to buy a stake in Liverpool Football Club?

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Hmmm, should I order in a pizza tonight ? How does this basic question translate to the monstrously rich, to those operating in the hundreds of billions?

Maybe it’s as simple as this: hmmm, should I join a consortium looking to buy a stake in Liverpool Football Club? Welcome to the world of Jeff Bezos, founder of Amazon and once the wealthiest person on the planet (he’s dropped to fourth – get the violins out).

Bezos, with a net worth north of $250bn, could be on the way to Our League , potentially dropping some of his pocket change into the Anfield coffers. Jeff Bezos in talks to buy a stake in Liverpool?

How soon before Andoni Iraola gets a card saying that one of his new signings is in a box behind the Anfield bins?” – Simon Mazier. Re: yesterday’s last line (full email edition).

The mention of Riga FC reminds me of my visit there in October 2025. After a frankly awful 0-0 draw that clinched the title, they brought out celebratory hoardings declaring ‘Champions 2026’.

Before too many cameras caught it, they put the trophy plinth in front of the offending digit. That said, with a third of this season’s Virsliga to go, they’re in

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