For him, football is a calling and yet he keeps toying with the idea of abolishing the 50+1 rule: Uli Hoeneß
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The owner of Liverpool FC tells everything you need to know about investing in football. In doing so, he reminds why FC Bayern should not have any interest in abolishing the 50+1 rule.
DDespite being one of the more powerful men in world sport, few people in Germany know what John W. Henry does. The US billionaire runs the company Fenway Sports Group, which not only owns two of the largest sports clubs in the USA (Boston Red Sox and Pittsburgh Penguins) but also one of the largest in Europe: Liverpool FC.
As an exception, Henry allowed himself to be interviewed on Monday. In the world of the billionaire, that means: He answered questions from the “Boston Sport Journal” in writing. Some he even asked himself. And yet, with a view to the debates on the future of the Bundesliga, in Germany one should deal with his views. Because John W. Henry basically said everything there is to know about investors in modern European football with a question he asked and an answer he gave himself:
