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

Hello and welcome to the Liverpool.com podcast. I'm James Martin and I'm

joined today by Matt Addison. We've got plenty to talk about including the

latest on Rubin Amaran and then we'll be moving on to a couple of other topics. There's been some

whispers about Lewis Diaz which we'll get to. But we'll start with Amaran.

We saw reports yesterday, didn't we map, that sort of a deal in principle was agreed a verbal

agreement so coming out of Germany and they've they've been kind of not back so it

doesn't look imminent does it does it? No, I think he's definitely the front runner in most people's minds,

but then again, maybe Shelby Alonso was a few weeks ago,

so there's no guarantee that that will end up happening I think

Liverpool insist that they are continuing to look at a number of options they will as ever be

guided by the data and take the time over making the decision.

But I think most people have come to the conclusion that Rubenamarin would make a lot of sense

at this point. I think it's probably also a bit of a delicate thing in terms of

You know sporting go for the title. It looks like they're gonna get over the line there

Similar to how it would have been in fairness with Alonzo if Alonzo had decided he was going to move that conversation really in any sort of confirmation probably would have took place after the League had finished. I think probably it will be similar with Amaram as much as he has been asked

several times now and has never really refused to rule out the fact that he might be leaving.

In fact, he's kind of actively said that there's a decent chance he might be moving. In fact, he's kind of actively said that there's a decent chance he might be moving. I think in a couple of different interviews, the conversation around that I think at the same time as it's a possibility. I don't think they would want that to

overshadow the remainder of this season. So it's it's tricky really I'm sure

there will be conversations going on behind the scenes but I think Liverpool

would want to be respectful and I think Ruben hammer him if it is to be him I think he'd want to be respectful for the rest of the season if nothing else because it means that he would you know potentially end up with a league title to win at the end of it. So there's still a delicate balance I think to be struck but I'm sure Liverpool will be making progress because you know they haven't got loads of time to work these things out as we're going to

to there's a number of things that they have to do this summer. Obviously

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