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At Liverpool's Romeo Labia, the suit remains lost. I think we're three rejected bids in now.

And sort of the fourth one is either in it's anticipated where we

at with it then what's the current state of play? Yeah my understanding is that

perhaps the media cycle has been a little bit behind on this one, which is normal when you have a rejected bid, it tends to suffice and sometimes there's an assumption that the bid went in pretty much at the same time as the rejection and my understanding is that

since that third rejected bid Liverpool have come back in with an improved offer and

naturally because the feeling is that Lavia and 50 million will do the deal and the rejected

bid was at 45, there's obviously not much more needed to get this one over the line if Liverpool wants to proceed and if they meet the valuation that Southampton are looking for it's very known now that Lavia wants to move and I think this is why there's quite a bit of frustration amongst maybe the Liverpool fan base because they're looking at the last rejected bid they're looking at the so-called asking price and they're wondering why with the season now on our doorstep things haven't been done and this is a little bit

A typical for Liverpool from my experience of covering the club anyway because we've seen multiple bids. It's played out quite publicly.

Lavia obviously wasn't in the Carrebel Cup squad and we can read something into that

for sure. But they're still there and talks are continuing at the time we're recording this and I would

imagine by the time people listen to this or certainly between now and the Chelsea game,

things will have moved on a little bit further and this is about

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