Tom Werner scrunched his face as he listened to the enquiry. Liverpool’s chairman was standing in front of the Kop, with the new Main Stand towering behind him, and he felt compelled to set the record straight.
‘I have said repeatedly this club is not for sale,’ Werner stressed on the morning of Friday, September 9, 2016. ‘I don’t know how many more times I can say it. We recognised this was a challenge. We fell in love with Anfield the first time we set foot in here. How could we not?’
All through that summer, there had been rumours about new investment but the message was clear and it continued to be so.