Liverpool will spend in January – Broughton

(GSM) – Liverpool chairman Martin Broughton has promised that the new owners, who are set to take over the club, will provide manager Roy Hodgson with cash for new players in January.

Broughton has confirmed that New England Sports Ventures (NESV) are committed to building a new stadium.

Broughton is convinced the prospective new owners will take the Anfield club forward and attain short-term and long-term success.

“They don’t want any hostages to fortune, very sensibly, so they’re not going to make any comments about how much or anything like that,” Broughton said. “But this goes back to the winning mentality.

“I think the demonstration is: let’s look at what they have done at Boston, what they said in Boston, what they have done in terms of investing in players – and I think you get a high degree of confidence of their willingness to do that.”

On the issue of building a new stadium, Broughton said: “There’s definitely a commitment to invest in a stadium. Where they haven’t finalised their view is whether that should be the new stadium or whether there are still opportunities to build at Anfield itself. They have done both.

“The people involved have built the new stadium at Baltimore Orioles, for example, and at Fenway Park they looked at the two options and decided that actually redevelopment with all of the tradition was better than a new stadium.”