The Reliance Industries Limited (RIL) has denied a report in a leading English daily which had claimed that it’s Chairman and Managing Director Mukesh Ambani has was in the race to take over renowned English football club Liverpool FC.
Notably, The Mirror Sport had ‘exclusively’ reported that Liverpool FC have been approached by the eighth-richest man in the world – Mukesh Ambani, with the club’s FSG owners open to selling up.
However, when contacted, the RIL denied any such takeover plans of Liverpool FC by them.
Significantly, it was not for the first time when Ambani has been linked with Liverpool though, after eyeing a takeover bid in 2010 before Fenway Sports Group (FSG) purchased the Premier League side.
The Mirror Sport report had claimed that Liverpool’s owners are understood to be willing to sell the club for 4 billion pound sterling.
Earlier in 2010, Subrata Roy of Sahara Group and Ambani were lining up a bid to purchase 51 percent of the club’s stake from former owners Tom Hicks and George Gillett.
As of now, Ambani currently owns IPL cricket giants Mumbai Indians and had also played a significant role in setting up the Indian Super League (ISL).