Liverpool Could Sign Ronald Araujo For SCARY Low Fee | Daily News Update

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Hello everybody, welcome to the Redmen TV and your latest daily news update show. My name is Dan Club. I'm here for the next 25 minutes, half an hour, give or take, to speak about all things going on in the world of Liverpool right now. But as ever, these shows are entirely dependents on you guys. Wherever you are tuning in from, bombard the chat with whatever you want to talk about, whether that be looking ahead to the weekends, looking ahead to the game, obviously Arsenal on Sunday. Questions, opinions, transfers, contracts, you name it, the world, the chat is your oyster. And I will do my best to go through as many of them as possible. I will just bring them up on screen as we go along as well. They could be talking points amongst yourselves or indeed things that I touch upon. Be a good morning, everybody. Good morning, good morning, good morning. Hope everybody as well. Hope everybody is excited ahead of the visit of Arsenal to Anfield this Sunday. It does have an air of anticipation around it, is probably the word I'm going to use. Because all of a sudden now, because of the last few weeks and last few wins, and indeed the performances coupled with that, there's a growing sense of what if really amongst Liverpool fans, certainly the ones that I speak to anyway. So I think, yeah, heading to this one, it might have been trepidation at the start of the season, it might have been a little bit of concern, even a few weeks ago, maybe post Man City, but now, given our upturn and the seemingly, you know, new found resilience that Liverpool have as a group, I think we are now looking at it going, tell you what, and probably helps a little bit that, you know, Arsenal had a tricky week, and that's putting it mildly, given the fact they were beaten by Fleetwood Town. And of course, you know, they lost Max Downman in the process, not suggesting for a single second, he would have started this game necessarily, but he had got one or two injury problems to boot, and then they lost the subsequent appeal on Max Downman's red card. So yeah, in terms of preparation, in terms of mood, we're probably in a better place than them, which is nice.

Right, Big Ron is already a cult hero, I simply cannot accept him pulling on a part of the show again, give him a contract.

Yeah, yeah, well listen, it's worth shooting in regardless to be honest, but I'm glad you're here anyway. I'm glad we've found a way to entice you in.

The stories are as follows. So Ronald Araujo's agent, there's a few sort of different things out in the ether when it comes to Ronald Araujo at the moment. There's suggestions that Liverpool already sort of started talks. I had Paul Gawstin with me yesterday. He said those conversations haven't yet taken place, but Liverpool are very happy with sort of what he's been doing and why wouldn't you be ultimately. He's taken to life at Liverpool like a duck to water, hasn't he? And he looks like he belongs in the Liverpool shirt to sort of riff off the point made on the screen. But there's no rush when it comes to making a decision on Ronald Araujo, I will say for now. And his agent has actually spoken also over the past few days. And he said, Ronald is performing well. We're very happy with what he's bringing to the team, but it's still too early to talk about his future at this point. He's feeling great. He's happy to be playing for Liverpool and happy to help the club and his teammates just as he already said. So encouraging. And again, you know, he says right at the end, Ronald Araujo has come out himself and said, I'm pleased he is for life at Liverpool. He's learning English, which is another sort of ticking the box towards his repertoire and the all round package you're going to get if indeed you do decide to sign him on a full term permanent basis. But yeah, I think all of us are so enamored with what he's brought to the team. And I mentioned it a minute ago, this newfound steeliness that we have. I think some of that resilience has sort of taken from Ronald Araujo and a lot of the team, a lot of the individuals have looked at him and gone, well, he's showing this absolute determination and character in Never Say Die attitude and take a leaf out of his book. And that sort of thing sort of filters and trickles around and sort of resonates with a group. And all of a sudden you've got this all in it together mentality. And I think Ronald Araujo, as I say, is a big part of that. But what I will say is obviously we know there's a pre-agreed fee set for an option to buy that Liverpool could well choose to exercise at the end of the season. But according to Louis Steele, friend of the channel, Liverpool are open to making Ronald Araujo's move permanent. If this form continues, slight caveat there, they will be able to renegotiate the fee down from the pre-agreed 47 million figure with Barcelona. Now, that's news to me.