THE man who helped save Liverpool believes owners Fenway Sports Group will have an “exit strategy” to sell out and make a giant profit.
The Reds are now valued at around £2BILLION after their recent successes.
Liverpool’s owners, led by John Henry, will have a plan to sell and make a profit, according to the club’s former chairman
And Sir Martin Broughton – who was appointed Anfield chairman in April 2010 by Royal Bank of Scotland – reckons John Henry and his FSG group will have a plan to quit already in their minds.
Liverpool were on the brink of administration when RBS were owed a debt of £237million, wracked up by previous owners George Gillett and Tom Hicks.
It took six months of legal wrangling for the despised pair to agree to sell up to their fellow Americans for what now seems a snip at £300m.
Broughton said: “It was very close – it was very close in the sense that the loans were being renewed on a weekly basis.
“That’s almost unheard of. That is serious financial crisis.”
Now, he believes FSG are sitting on a pile of gold and estimates Liverpool, who made a record turnover of £530m last year, is worth a staggering of £2bn.
He hints the Americans are bound to be thinking of cashing in at some point, saying: “This isn’t meant to be alarmist.
“But it would be normal to be thinking of an exit strategy.
“They have taken Red Sox from being an also-ran, traditional team to a very successful team.
“FSG have a lot of money tied up in sport. They haven’t sold it. But the same equation must be going through their heads.
“What’s it worth? What did we buy it for? What could we get for it?
“Are we at the moment for selling or just happy to carry on with it?
“Equally, they’ve been in the Red Sox for 20 years. They’ve been at Liverpool for ten years.
“They don’t look like guys who are rushing to cash out.”
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Source: Soccer - thesun.co.uk
