Ray Boulger, at mortgage brokers John Charcol, estimated that in the past 10 years, at any one time only about 250, 000 UK residential mortgages would have had a home loanlinked to the Libor rate, rather than the Bank of England's base rate.
Newspaper reports have linked the Dutch pair with loan moves to Liverpool, while speculation has also focused on the possible departures from Anfield of Andriy Voronin, Andrea Dossena and Philipp Degen.