Reds buyout to be completed by April

Liverpool will have new ownership when they bid to reach the Champions League semi-finals next month.

The Anfield club’s attention today has been torn between the quarter-final draw in Athens, which paired them once again with PSV Eindhoven, just hours after George Gillett and Tom Hicks announced that they had acquired 80.7% of the club’s shares to give then unconditional control of the five-time European Cup winners.