Fenway Sports Group are merely 'testing the water' by putting Liverpool up for sale, according to the club's former chairman Sir Martin Broughton.
FSG announced in November they were prepared to sell their controlling stake in Liverpool and made the first significant move in ending their 13-year ownership of the club.
The full intentions of the ownership group have remained unclear, with FSG reportedly yet to receive any formal offers for either a minority or majority stake in the club.
And Broughton - who as chairman of the club sold the Reds to FSG in 2010 - revealed the ownership's objectives after he talked to current Liverpool and FSG chairman Tom Werner.