Jeff Bezos is reportedly seeking to buy at least a 30% stake in Liverpool Football Club, valuing the Premier League side at £1.35 billion (around $1.8 billion), according to the Guardian. Facebook co-founder Eduardo Saverin is also said to be part of the buying group. It would mark the Amazon founder's first foray into sports ownership, joining a growing roster of American billionaires and celebrities who have taken stakes in English football clubs in recent years.

Liverpool, one of Europe's most valuable clubs at around $6 billion according to Forbes, would be Bezos's most high-profile acquisition yet, following reports he had previously considered buying into an American football franchise. He joins a wave of US investors already in the Premier League, including Chelsea's Todd Boehly and Mark Walters, Crystal Palace's Woody Johnson, Everton's Dan Friedkin, and Bournemouth's Bill Foley, alongside celebrity investors such as Ryan Reynolds, Tom Brady and Will Ferrell. Sky Sports has reported that 13 of the 20 Premier League clubs now have American shareholders, reflecting soccer's rising popularity in the US and the relative affordability of buying into English clubs compared with closed-off leagues like the NFL and MLB.