Mo Salah looking likely to stay at Liverpool as time for Saudi move runs out

But we start this lunchtime with the final day of the Saudi Pro League transfer window. Will Liverpool face a test of their resolve when it comes to keeping Mo Salah later today? Well, our chief reporter is alongside me. Good to speak to you. The window shuts at ten o'clock tonight. Where do we stand right now? I think it is getting too late for Al Etahad to sign Mo Salah. The background to this is we know last week, last Thursday, they made a verbal offer, £150 million. That was rejected out of hand by Liverpool. And then Al Etahad were weighing up whether to go back in with an improved offer. There have been reports that they were preparing a bid, a world record bid, worth up to £215 million. But that has not happened. Now, our information over the weekend was that the people right at the top of Al Etahad did want to make another offer, did want to try again. But their advisers were telling them that, look, it's time to back off now. You've got to respect Liverpool. Think about the optics of this as well. Do you really want to make another offer and then miss out on signing a player like Mo Salah? Let's keep relations with Liverpool as good as possible. And let's revisit this sometime in the future. I've also been told, and I know some people will find this hard to believe, I don't know if I believe it myself, but I'm being told from a football perspective, there were people at Al Etahad on the football side of the operation who weren't convinced that they really needed Mo Salah at the moment. They've spent big money on players like Karim Benzema, N'Golo Kante, Fabinho. I think they felt that other parts of the squad and the team needed strengthening. I'm not saying they didn't want Mo Salah, but some people on the football side of the operation thought he wasn't the priority signing at the moment. OK, so just to be clear, today we don't expect to hear any more from Saudi in terms of another offer for Mo Salah? I don't think Liverpool are not expecting to hear anything from the Saudis, and I think if they did, they would get the same answer. The player is not for sale. We know from Jurgen Klopp speaking on Sunday after the game against Aston Villa, he was very clear that as far as he was concerned, the player wanted to stay at Liverpool.