Purslow confident Liverpool sale will be completed

Liverpool chief executive Christian Purslow is confident the proposed £300m (€344.2m) sale of the club to New England Sports Ventures will go through.

Purslow maintained the Reds board had "done their homework" on the American investment group, which owns the Boston Red Sox baseball team, and said that the club's £237m (€271.9m) debt would be wiped out if the takeover, which is subject to a High Court challenge from current owners Tom Hicks and George Gillett, goes through next week.