Hello, Ecker reporter Christian Welch. Hello Ian.

And as you could probably hear in the background, we've got him on the line once again.

It's our full-time Liverpool reporter, very much home and not away.

James Pierce.

Hi, Jay.

Hello, yeah. We'll start with you, Jay. Hello, I will start with you Jay. The big news today, certainly for

Liverpool fans, is the latest room surrounding Felipe Catinea. What can you tell us?

Well, it's just more of the same really, isn't it?

I think the, what was it, the Summer Long Saga from 2017 has quickly been reignited in 2018, and I think most people would have been expecting it really.

I think deep down everyone knew that despite how well Ketino had performed in the first half of the season.

I don't think anything was going to change his mind

that about his heart being set on moving to Catalonia.

But there's been fresh reports today in in Spain about you know a deal being

very close and how Catino has concluded he won't ever wear the number 10 Liverpool shirt

again and all this now what we do know is

that as it stands at the moment that is certainly very premature because you know that

there are no negotiations at the moment there is no fresh bid from Barcelona but it's just going to be

intriguing to see how things do develop because it's not it's not going to go away

during this transfer window I think everyone would have

picked up on the fact that Liverpool's rhetoric has changed compared to last

summer when you know the owners went on the record so definitively to say be going nowhere clop said he didn't have a price you know this time around.

It is different.

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