Hello it's Paul Bielock and welcome to the latest edition of the bottom line

podcast which if you're the first time listener or viewer is all about

football finances and Liverpool football clubs in particular. More than not on this

podcast it's hosted by the Liverpool Echo Echoes, business and football reporter, Dave Powell,

but we've swapped his seats today. We've got him in the guest year and later in the show we'll be talking to him all about the

Anfield Road Sand Development, an exclusive interview

he recently carried out for the Aco and the news of a Premier League takeover.

But mainly we will be talking about Mohammed Sala.

If you've been reading the Liverpool

Lacos website this week you'll notice already but Dave's been very busy covering

Salas stories and in his contract situation in particular. It is a big story isn't it Dave this one a lot

of you know we know how good he is as a player he's probably playing as well as he

ever has for Liverpool there's a very strong argument to suggest that he's the

best play in the world so Liverpool fans want to know what's going on with his contract.

And that's just it, isn't it? He is probably raised himself up to that level of being in the conversation for being, he is probably the moment, arguably the best player in the world.

And Liverpool is where he plays his football and it's where the fans want to see and play his football for the foreseeable future.

But obviously, it costs a lot of money to keep players like that tied into a football club and obviously his form at the

moment coinciding with the fact that his contract is negotiations are such a hot topic.

It just means that it's the conversation is even more difficult I suppose

and I suppose it's a case of Sala being able to hold a strong ground I suppose and be able to leverage his position but ultimately I think

there's an agreement between everyone that Sala looks like he's a player that wants to stay at

Liverpool and for FSG and the ownership at Little puts a case of making sure

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