Liverpool owners Fenway Sports Group may seek a 'strategic partner' in their search for new investment.
At the start of November the Reds owners were revealed to have opened themselves up to interest in a full takeover having spent more than a year looking for outside investment and having engaged major US banks Goldman Sachs and Morgan Stanley to aid that process.
Well placed sources in the US told the ECHO last month that the Reds owners were seeking any investment or takeover interest at a minimum valuation on the business of $4bn (£3.3bn) but that it would likely take a higher figure for any takeover bid to come to fruition.