This is the Blood Red Podcast from the Liverpool Echo, giving you the inside track on all the big talking points from Anfield.

Hello everyone and welcome to the latest edition of the Liverpool.com

podcast I am your host most Stewart and I'm joined by Ben Bolchak and Matt

Addison and today we are going to talk about that thing that we don't like talking about.

Most sailors contract.

Now, every goal, every assist, every magic performance from the Egyptian king,

the clamor increases to get him tied down.

Liverpool fans get nervous, that little voice in the back of our head says,

well he's not tied down yet anything could happen.

Well, we're going to confront it today. We're going to

work out exactly why we think it's taking this long and what actually could happen.

All of the machinations, we're going to lay our cars out on the table, maybe it's going to be a bit of therapy for you,

maybe it'll be just something to help you calm down through this period.

But either way, but it's understandable, the little fans are nervous because he's very good isn't he?

He certainly is yet the best player in the world without a doubt I think at this moment in time and

the longer it goes on the more people will get nervous I think for me the thing that gives me hope and I'm fairly confident that it will still you know happen and he will still be tied down is is two things really I think it would be

stupid of Liverpool not to do it but also he clearly wants to stay he said it

enough times and I think when those two things are the case you think a compromise can be found and I know we're kind of going into

details in terms of what might be happening and what might have I've delayed it and all the rest of it.

We don't know for sure exactly what the demands are,

but you'd think that if, for example,

it was to come down to the finances and the money,

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