Here is your Liverpool FC digest for Tuesday, November 8.
Potential interest in Liverpool
With recent reports that Fenway Sports Group are open to selling Liverpool, eyes will turn to the small and select pool of potential suitors.
Valued at a whopping £3.6billion by Forbes - a 1,100 per cent increase on the £300million FSG bought the club for in 2010 - and given the £2.5billion sale of Chelsea recently, any potential buyers will likely have to top £4billion if they want John Henry and Co. to give them the time of day. Sums like that mean the potential pool of suitors is small, and with the Reds having to also face a moral dilemma over just who takes over the reins at the club, they will need to be selective.
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One name who has consistently been linked with high-level Premier League takeovers is INEOS founder Sir Jim Ratcliffe. The 70-year-old is worth around £15bn and already owns two teams; OGC Nice in France and Lausanne Sport in Switzerland. Other potential buyers include US billionaires and Crystal Palace shareholders David Blitzer and Josh Harris - they may involve former Liverpool chairman Sir Martin Broughton in any deal.
Several other American business magnates and investment funds may also be keeping tabs on developments on Merseyside, as will potential candidates from the Middle East - although they pose a potential moral dilemma for fans, as has happened at Manchester City and Newcastle United.
See the full list of potentially interested parties here.
Premier League fixture problems
Liverpool and Chelsea will face a huge struggle in re-arranging their postponed Premier League fixture next year after being drawn in opposite weeks for the Champions League knockout stages.
The pair were due to play at Stamford Bridge on Sunday, September 18, but saw their fixture called off as London braced itself for Queen Elizabeth II's funeral on the Monday. Teams competing in European competition already face a huge problem in re-arranging said games, with unprecedented fixture congestion filling almost every midweek opportunity between now and the end of the season.
The current schedule has just three open midweeks between the return from the World Cup and the final weekend of Premier League action on May 28, but they are reserved to house league fixtures affected by qualification into the Carabao Cup final, and FA Cup quarter-finals and semi-finals.
One other possible solution for teams competing in the Champions League was to play midweek while the other side of the draw feature in Europe. However, with Chelsea drawn into the first week of fixtures (February 15 and March 7) and Liverpool in the second (February 21 and March 15), that possibility is now gone, leaving organisers with an enormous headache as to how they squeeze in the fixture.
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