LIVERPOOL SALE RUMOURS FUEL ROY HODGSON OUT AND MARTIN O’NEILL IN RUMOURS

BBC Sport, and virtually every other major sporting media institution, are confirming that Liverpool have received two plausible bids for the sale of the club. With the Reds having an extremely underwhelming start to the season, this seems to be a bit of encouragement for the fans who are obviously growing frustrated with the side’s US-based ownership.
It is believed that one offer is from Asia and one offer is coming from (gulp) America. The biggest issue at the moment seems to be that Tim Hicks and George Gillett aren’t looking to accept either of these bids as it means that they won’t actually make any money on the club. After pouring millions of dollars into the team you reckon that they’re going to want some type of return.
Liverpool’s other board members are supposedly favouring a sale and the two owners are effectively outvoted. The Royal Bank of Scotland has set a deadline of October 15 for Liverpool’s rumoured £237m debt to be paid, or they will be charged a penalty of £60m- nothing to sneeze at no matter how rich you are.
Due to the speculation over an ownership change at Liverpool, this has prompted a number of online bookies to halt trading on Roy Hodgson to be the next manager to lose his job in the English Premier League.
Hodgson’s odds for the sack had been cut from 20/1 to 4/1 after the Reds were embarrassed by Blackpool in a 2-1 home loss at the weekend.
Skybet is now listing odds of 5/2 that Martin O’Neill will be named the next Liverpool manager. The former Aston Villa manager departed just a few days before the season started and many thought he would jump into a new position right away. The fact that O’Neill seems to be biding his time has tipped off a number of punters that he might be the man in the frame to take over at Liverpool should Hodgson get the sack.
The rumours were bandied about in BBC Sport’s gossip column a week or two back when they declared that bids were still floating around for Liverpool and that O’Neill was the preferred manager of both potential consortiums.