Broughton dismayed as owners attempt to block sale

Liverpool chairman Martin Broughton has hit out at owners Tom Hicks and George Gillett for trying to block the sale of the club.

Sources at the club are confident the £300m (€344m) deal with New England Sports Ventures (NESV) will go through despite the threat of legal action from the two Americans, who yesterday failed in a boardroom coup to prevent a change of ownership.