Liverpool owners Tom Hicks and George Gillett are ready to become unlikely boardroom allies in a bid to sell the club to Syrian businessman Yahya Kirdi.
According to The Sunday Mirror, the two Americans are ready to join forces to back Kirdi's £600 million plan to take over at Anfield.
Hicks and Gillett have had a tense relationship since they took over the club back in 2007, resulting in a breakdown in communications and the pair refusing to discuss the future of the club with one another.
However, they had been forced into a reconciliation following a bid from Chinese businessman Kenneth Huang which would see his Sportscorp China Ltd group purchase the club and its reported £237 million debts, leaving the current owners with a small profit.
Huang's bid to buy the club has been approved by chairman Martin Broughton, managing director Christian Purslow and director Ian Ayre.
The trio are in a position to win a majority vote in favour of selling the club to Huang, with the two Americans facing the prospect of launching a court battle if they are to stop the sale of Liverpool against their wishes.
That scenario now seems very likely considering the pair's wish to sell to Kirdi, and a source close to the Americans said: "Liverpool will not be sold unless the deal is acceptable to the current owners.
"Their valuation of the club remains unchanged and it is ludicrous to think that any bid will be accepted that doesn't meet this criteria, regardless of the make-up of the boardroom."
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