According to British media reports, as many as six potential parties are looking to buy the 18-times English champions who were put up for sale by American owners Tom Hicks and George Gillett in April.
One of those is Chinese-born American businessman Kenny Huang, who said on Wednesday that he was interested in investing in the Premier League club but had not launched a formal bid.
A source close to Huang told Reuters on Monday that talks to buy Liverpool's 237 million-pound debt with major creditor Royal Bank of Scotland were underway as a first step towards acquiring control of the club.
The Times newspaper said on Thursday that China's sovereign wealth fund, China Investment Corporation (CIC), would back a Huang bid.
CIC was set up in 2007 with the aim of seeking higher returns for part of the country's huge stockpile of foreign exchange reserves, which stood at $2.39 trillion at the end of 2009.
Huang was also linked to a Chinese consortium looking to buy a 15 percent stake in the NBA's Cleveland Cavaliers last year but the North American basketball league has now confirmed that he was not involved.
"All we have heard for the last three or four years under the Americans are promises and more promises and none of them have happened. The Chinese couldn't do worse," Tom McDonagh, a 47-year-old civil engineer from Wallasey, told Reuters.
Imran Patel, a 29-year-old company director at Anfield to buy tickets for Thursday's match, also added: "It is appalling what has happened here. The club has drifted for far too long."
