Your Liverpool morning digest as Jordan Henderson is removed from training ground and Fenway Sports Group’s search for investment reaches a conclusion
Your Liverpool morning digest for Friday, September 29.
Jordan Henderson removed from training ground
For those who champion a ‘new-look Liverpool’, there’s been one very specific change at the Reds’ training ground that accurately sums that all up quite literally.
Liverpool’s AXA Training Centre is adorned with images and quotes on the walls of some of the greatest nights of the Jurgen Klopp era but one particular likeness of former captain Jordan Henderson has now been removed following his departure to Al-Ettifaq in Saudi Arabia over the summer.
Where previously the picture was of Henderson clasping the Premier League trophy in 2020, in its place now is a picture of Trent Alexander-Arnold with the Champions League in hand alongside the quote: “I’m just a normal lad from Liverpool whose dreams have just come true.”
With Alexander-Arnold now officially appointed as the club’s vice-captain, the recognition of his achievements already, at the age of just 24, is a nice touch from the club as they continue going about breathing fresh life into the place both on and off the pitch.
Liverpool secure minority investment from Dynasty Equity
Fenway Sports Group’s search for investment in Liverpool has reached a conclusion, with the Reds owners reaffirming that they are not looking at an exit route from the club.
New York-based Dynasty Equity, have taken a small minority position in the club, with the move designed to clear the club’s bank debt and not to fund transfer market activity. The value of the deal has not been disclosed but is understood to be between $100m and $200m. There will be no change in operational control at the football club.
Since November 2022, when it emerged that FSG had created a sales deck to present to potential investors, investment talk has dominated much of the discourse around the football club off the field.
John W. Henry, FSG chief and Liverpool’s principal owner, had made it clear earlier in the year that the club was not for sale, and the closing of the deal with Dynasty Equity draws a line under the matter, with the ECHO understanding that there is no further search for a minority partner now being conducted and the club is not, and has never been, for sale.