A group of Liverpool fans attempting to purchase the club from current owners George Gillett and Tom Hicks has assembled a team of experts in order to help facilitate the move.
The Share Liverpool FC Group is hopeful that 100,000 fans will pledge £5,000 each in order to fund the £500 million takeover, and the supporters involved have called on Chris Talavera, a former senior partner with PricewaterhouseCoopers and chairman of Isle of Man-based Abacus Holdings, and Barrie Baxter, chief executive of business modelling software firm Brixx, for support.
They are also being advised by Supporters Direct and law firm Cobbetts, and former players Phil Thomson and John Aldridge have given their backing to the scheme.
"For anybody looking to buy a football club which is valued at over £350m, and in particular one where we are asking tens of thousands of individuals to contribute several thousand pounds, we need to go through proper financial procedures," Rogan Taylor, the founder of Share Liverpool FC, told the BBC.
"We have brought together the different skill-sets in areas such as finance, law and marketing that are needed if we are to succeed in this venture."
So far, £47.5 million has been received in pledges.
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