These have been depressing times at Anfield. It is never nice when your football club are making as many headlines on the front pages as the back.
This week looks set to be huge for Liverpool but there is still a feeling of uncertainty because nobody can guarantee what is going to happen next.
I feel particularly for the fans, who must find it difficult to know which way to turn. I am sure the majority of them are quite happy that the club might be sold but what they really want is to see Liverpool move onwards and upwards from here.
Not happy: Liverpool fans show their frustration
Let's hope we can and that things work out. Liverpool is usually a glass half-full kind of city, and the Kop are renowned throughout the world for their humour and spirit.
But the turbulent three years under Tom Hicks and George Gillett have had an effect.
It is essential for any potential new owners to assure the supporters they have a long-term plan for the club that will see the club's debt problem resolved, investment made for new players and a solution found where Liverpool's match-day revenues increase either at an enlarged Anfield or a new stadium.
Bill Shankly talked about Liverpool being a 'bastion of invincibility', he couldn't have believed one day people would be talking about Liverpool in the same breath as administration, High Court cases and ownership issues.
Martin Broughton, Ian Ayre and Christian Purslow have got the responsibility of trying to do the right thing for the club and we must wish them well.
Fans stop me in the street and ask me what is going to happen. I can't give them a precise answer but I do know this club's DNA will ensure they survive and are successful in the future.
Just don't expect the scepticism from supporters to disappear overnight, not after the journey they've been on.
Liverpool will always be big news given the success and history of the club.
Once this episode is over, I hope the 'news' will all be about football.
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