FINALIZING THE PARALLEL BETWEEN THE TWO CLUBS:

Liverpool FC Strikes Deal With Red Sox Owner (Chris V. Nicholson, October 6, 2010, NY Times)

Liverpool FC said Wednesday that it had accepted the offer of New England Sports Ventures, also the owners of the Boston Red Sox, to buy the Premiere League soccer club for an undisclosed sum. The deal may be worth about £300 million, a person with direct knowledge of the situation said. [...]

New England Sports Ventures was founded in 1981 by John W. Henry, who together with The New York Times Co. bought the Boston Red Sox in 2002.