In many ways, Liverpool may be about to find themselves back at the crossroads they once stood at more than 15 years ago, should owners Fenway Sports Group decide the time is right to sell up at Anfield.
It was back in the mid-2000s when late owner David Moores reluctantly accepted that he simply did not have the wealth to keep the club he loved atop of an English game that was radically morphing into the Premier League product that we know it as today.
As the likes of Chelsea - backed by billionaire Roman Abramovich - and Manchester United - whose success on the pitch underpinned their ability to spend off it long before the Glazer family took over - continued to spend large sums of money on the pursuit of progress, Moores, with the heaviest of hearts, decreed that a sale was needed.
