Sleeping Reds need American dream

THERE wasn't an American flag in sight at Anfield on Saturday, but the sooner the USA takeover is complete the better for Rafa Benitez.

Liverpool’s prospective new owners, George Gillett Jnr and Tom Hicks, are expected to fly into Merseyside today to submit a formal bid worth about £470m for the five-times European Cup winners.

Whatever suspicions supporters may have about the duo’s long-term plans for their club, two things are crystal clear. Gillett and Hicks are extremely rich sports fans and Benitez, on the evidence of one of dullest Merseyside derbies in history, clearly needs a lot more money than the current Anfield board can afford if Liverpool are not to be left way behind by Chelsea, Manchester United and Arsenal.