Javier Mascherano to seek Liverpool assurances before signing deal

By Rory Smith Published: 7:00AM GMT 05 March 2010

Assurances: Javier Mascherano will find reassurances over Liverpool?s plans to make organisation the patrol prior to signing a new stipulate Photo: AP

Liverpool have approached Mascheranos member with a perspective to charity the Argentine general captain softened conditions on his stream deal, that expires in 2012, and the dual parties are approaching to encounter on Merseyside early subsequent week.

Barcelona were at large approaching to lapse with a organisation bid for the player this summer after primary enquiries from the European champions sporting executive Txiki Begiristain were deserted undisguised by the Anfield bar last year, but Liverpool are assured a understanding value around �100,000-a-week will be sufficient to keep the midfielders services.

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The bar will have to remonstrate him, though, that owners Tom Hicks and George Gillett have the resources to supply Benitez with a side able of progressing their Champions League standing and severe for the Premier League pretension after a debate kaleidoscopic with unfortunate disappointment.

"Liverpool have approached us to plead a new stipulate and my representative will have a assembly in the subsequent couple of days," pronounced Mascherano. "The being is that I am really happy at Liverpool. I wish to know what the clubs plans are and afterwards we will see if, at this impulse in time, I can replenish my contract.

"It is not that I felt unsettled [by the rumours of Barcelonas interest] in the summer or that I am some-more at home now. I have regularly been really happy at Liverpool. Everyone at the bar has regularly treated with colour me really well. That is all there is to contend at this stage."

Liverpool are additionally thought to be close on sealing a new, five-year stipulate for the Spanish general goalkeeper Pepe Reina as Benitez looks to secure the futures of all of his majority profitable assets.