 That's because, with the greatest of respect to those two teams, if that is the rivalry in the Premier League in three years' time, then the vast majority of people aren't going to give a flying you know what about it. Look, I know they are two very big clubs because I played against both, at Maine Road and St James' Park, and I know){kind=link}
Liverpool’s owners Fenway Sports Group have put the club up for sale and Stan Collymore believes buyers should be queuing up around the block to buy one of the Premier League’s biggest clubs
The message to potential suitors of Liverpool is simple: if you have £4billion, then buy the club.
Because if Liverpool Football Club is supported properly from a business perspective then, much like Manchester United, it’s a license to print money. We are talking about a revenue-generating machine and I’d be staggered if, in a decade or so, whoever did buy it wasn’t sitting on an asset worth another £2.5bn on top of the price Fenway Sports Group are asking.
I’ve said a couple of times in recent weeks and months, most recently last week, that FSG cannot compete with sovereign wealth funds and that they need to be open at the very least to new investment.
We only need look at how a team which competed for four trophies last season are already out of the Premier League title race, barring a miracle, and face a hugely difficult task, given the way things are going, against Real Madrid in the Champions League.