The owners of Liverpool, Fenway Sports Group (FSG), are exploring a possible acquisition offer for Malaga of the second Spanish level, has revealed a report.
FSG has been growing a portfolio of various clubs for some time now and holding conversations about an agreement to buy the Bordeaux French side last summer, just to do eventually moving away from an agreement. Bordeaux’s financial difficulties were later relegated to the fourth level.
The idea of restoring a fallen giant is still attractive to FSG and, according to AthleticsThe next team of his vision is Malaga.
Malaga, famous quarterfinals of the Champions League of the 2012/13 season, have been fighting the financial problems for the last ten years and have dropped to the third level of Spanish football, but won the promotion in the division of Second last season.
FSG recognizes another opportunity to restore one side fighting and evaluating an agreement to assume the control of the participation of 51% owned by the majority shareholder Sheikh Abdullah in Qatar’s Thani.
There is significant competition in this acquisition race, however, as the owners of Paris Saint-Germain, Qatar Sports Investments, also seek to buy the Thani actions.
FSG hosted the previous one Liverpool Sports director Michael Edwards returned to the group last year as the new CEO of Football of the group, in charge of overseeing a multi-club model that is yet to be built.
There have been many exploratory conversations with the Spanish sides. FSG representatives have visited Levante, Elche, Espanyol, Getafe and Valladolid, but they seem to be fixed in Malaga.
