TREVOR Birch has been appointed as a financial advisor to act on Wanderers’ behalf as they negotiate with parties interested in buying the club.

But who is the man who could well shape the immediate future for the Whites?

Here are 10 things you might not know about him...

1. Trevor Birch was the last player signed by Liverpool legend Bill Shankly. He never made the first team grade at Anfield but had spells at Shrewsbury Town and Chester City as a midfielder.

2. The 57-year-old has been a partner at BDO LLP – a worldwide firm providing audit, tax and financial advice – for the last four years.

3. Trevor Birch acted as administrator at Portsmouth in 2012 after their incredible fall from grace and once rated the club’s chances of survival as “50-50.”

4. Pompey survived and current chairman Iain McInnes joked recently that the club should pay tribute to Birch: “We owe so much to that man it’s not true,” he said. “We should erect some kind of statue!”

5. Birch once said of the £30,000-a-week salary of ex-Wanderers defender Tal Ben Haim at Portsmouth: “For a Championship club that’s just crazy.”

6. Birch was involved in brokering Roman Abramovich’s takeover at Chelsea in 2003, saying in an interview earlier this year that it had been a whirlwind affair.

“Nobody knew anything about him. So I wasn’t sure whether it was a scene from Candid Camera and that suddenly Jeremy Beadle was going to jump out at me.

“But we did the deal in 10 minutes, nothing like that had ever happened. I don’t think people appreciated what a game changer it was. I suggested he spent £20m on players. He spent £140m in six weeks, the biggest change I’ve seen in English football.”

7. Birch refused the chance to stay on at Stamford Bridge and was replaced by Peter Kenyon.

8. Birch briefly acted as chairman of Leeds United after the resignation of Professor John McKenzie in October 2003.

9. After serving as chief executive at Everton, lasting only six weeks in the role in 2004, Birch said the task of moving away from Goodison Park was a major inhibiting factor the lack of interest in a buyer.

He said: “When someone looks at Everton and says they want to buy [the club] the first thing they have to do is look at building that stadium. A stadium costs £300-£400m. Who is going to make that investment?

10. Birch was once lined up to be the new chairman of Southampton in 2007.