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Broughton: NESV will back Liverpool boss Hodgson in transfer market

Liverpool chairman Martin Broughton is confident the club's prospective new owners will back manager Roy Hodgson in the transfer market.

Broughton feels NESV will provide much-needed cash for transfer funds and would seriously look at building a new stadium or possibly redeveloping Anfield.

"They don't want any hostages to fortune, very sensibly, so they're not going to make any comments about how much (money) or anything like that," he said.

"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.

"If you look at the Boston Red Sox, when they arrived everyone said 'We have to build a new stadium, this one is clapped out'.

"They looked at it, its tradition, and decided to invest heavily to reinvent Fenway Park, rather than move to a new stadium.

"There is definitely a commitment to invest in a stadium and we will finish up with a 60,000+ seater 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."

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