Josh Sexton

There's going to be

a real sort of, you know, genuine scope of like, what can this manager actually achieve with this squad next season?

Because even if he brings in two or three in the summer, it's still going to be most of these lads that he's not inspired conference from this season, that he's not got more than the sum of their parts from.

And listen, if he goes, then the onus is completely on the players where it's like,

he's took the bullet for yous now like whoever the new Ferrer is who comes in we all kind of imagine it's going to be Xabi Alonso he can't take the same bullet for yous again like this is on yous now to go and do your jobs better than you've been doing them this season here it is the man which is talking about his future

signed sealed and delivered and it's not quite there yet would that be a worry for you or are you someone who actually if canarsie was to leave maybe you're not the first no i i think i'd like him to stick around i think he's you know someone who is genuinely like a good personality to have about the place i think he's he'd been a good option in the second half of the season as well in fact he's probably one of the ones who's you know come away with more credit as the season's gone on really like you know sobasi was the one who was like

bona fide no one anywhere near him unanimous player of the season first half of the season i would actually say that sobber size dropped that level a little bit and that canate has you know got a bit closer to that level with some of his performances i think he has inspired leadership at times and you know it's not been without big mistakes and i think most then did come in the first half of the season it's not been without you know head scratching moments still and even some of them have come in the second half of the season i i still expect it to get wrapped up i imagine it gets wrapped up

probably in the next couple of weeks now, coming up to the season's end.

I can't remember when the Van Dijk and Salah contracts got wrapped up properly, but they run to the 30th of June, I think, don't they?

So there's still time, even after the season's ended, where it can happen in that time.

I think, unfortunately, it's the situation of Pulau

in with contracts in general at the moment where they're sort of almost working through a bit of a backlog maybe players and agents are kind of capitalising that backlog a little bit and it's why you've seen you know real stalemates in some of these contract talks but if the player's coming out and saying that he feels like it's really positive then clearly he's

What he wants is already on the table and I think that's the biggest obstacle to clear always.

I think if the player feels like it's in a good place and I'm expecting it to get wrapped up, I would be pleased about that.

I would still like to believe that in the next couple of seasons, Leone or Xhaka or someone like that is better than them or better than Kanate or that Liverpool bring in someone who's better than Kanate over the next few seasons.

you know we saw high turnover of the squad last season where I think too many players left to be honest and even though I'd like to see quite a few coming in the summer I would like not as many to leave and Kanate to me forms part of that Harvey Allard got a mention Greg as well James Pearce pushed the manager on Elliot's situation I've got to be honest I think at times how

Harvey Elliott's been spoken about in some of these press conferences has not necessarily sat well with me almost like listen he's still a Liverpool player but he's been spoken about in terms where he's none of our business almost and I've never really kind of liked that considering the manager is like I know he's not like dying but like you know his reputation is dying a little bit he's picking weird hills to die on with stuff like that like even with Kostas through the week he was like Kostas will be back next season effectively I mean it was words to that effect I don't think he said pre-season though whereas with Elliott he only says pre-season it's strange isn't it

It's a tricky one in terms of the left back sort of feels a little bit interchangeable at the moment.

I'd be tempted to go with Kierkegaard for this one just based on what Sean's saying there about the idea that you sort of attack Villa in the mid-block.

Again, I almost think that the way that Robertson has played in the second half of the season means that him and Kierkegaard's style is kind of a little bit interchangeable.