Qatari investors speculated to have their eyes on FC Liverpool

Talks about Qatari investors intending to purchase Liverpool's football club are growing louder, with a Qatari journalist having now openly commented on those rumours. 

As reported by the sports website FourFourTwo, Qatari journalist Mohammed Saeed Alkaabi has claimed that, "Qatar are giving priority to the acquisition of Liverpool Football Club and are seriously interested but the deal is not complete at this present moment. We will see in the next few days".

This comes as Liverpool's owners "Fenway Sports Group" have put the club up for sale recently and the "Qatar Sports Investments" (QSI) holding, which owns Paris Saint-Germain, being linked to an investment into Tottenham as well.

According to the publication, the Telegraph reported that a bid in February for Liverpool seems likely, with The Mirror having reported that the club proposed a sales price of £4 billion, having asked investment banks Goldman Sachs and Morgan Stanley to assist with the sale.

If the deal were to go through, Liverpool would become the third club in the English Premier League to be bought by a Middle Eastern group, after Manchester City was bought by Abu Dhabi and Newcastle United by Saudi Arabia. Manchester United has also been put up for sale by their owners, the (among fans unpopular) Glazer family.