Fenway Sports Group are leaning toward a partial sale of Liverpool.
The John Henry-led group has been exploring a series of potential investment opportunities over recent weeks including a full takeover of the Anfield club.
Goldman Sachs and Morgan Stanley were appointed to undertake a sales presentation designed to gauge the club’s value among would-be suitors.
But while FSG remain in discussions with prospective suitors, they are now expected to relinquish only a small shareholding in their current plans.
According to the Boston Globe, which is owned by Henry, the possibility of those talks seeing the Reds receive new outright owners appears unlikely.
A source close to negotiations also revealed that any fresh partners would need to be ‘aligned with FSG’s fiscal tenets and team-building philosophies’.
FSG president Mike Gordon, a key ally of Jurgen Klopp, is taking the lead on investment talks after a decade involved in Liverpool’s day-to-day running.
The club’s chairman Tom Werner recently insisted it was ‘business as usual’ from FSG’s perspective and that they had ‘no urgency’ on any possible deals.