After multiple rumors swirled recently, we had
so much hope that
John Henry would
finally come to his senses and sell-off his foreign soccer team (Liverpool F.C.). However, it looks like
the sale was just idle speculation. We have argued for
years that the NOG (New Ownership Group) should jettison all sports ventures other than the Red Sox—and concentrate on winning
even more championships here. Henry (in his typical 'commodities speculator' mode) bought Liverpool on the cheap ($477 million in 2010) and could now reportedly fetch in the neighborhood of $2
billion for the EPL franchise. But, no, Henry will continue to be distracted by his
other team across the pond. Oh well, hopefully he'll still have enough cash to keep together the
2018 World Champs—and sign
Mookie Betts long term. He had
better.
