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Carragher confirms contract talks

ESPN staff
May 6, 2010
Jamie Carragher has spent his entire career at Liverpool © Getty Images
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Jamie Carragher has confirmed he will hold contract talks with Liverpool at the end of the season.

Rumours had suggested Carragher was considering his future due to a lack of movement on the contract front, but the defender has nipped the speculation in the bud.

"I've spoke to the manager about it and we both agreed that it would be better if we talked about it at the start of next season," Carragher told LFC Weekly.

"There was an interview with a national newspaper and the headline was a bit misleading, saying that I would be prepared to leave Liverpool. Really, I said that if Liverpool didn't want me, I'd be forced to sign for someone else because I'd have no other option.

"I don't want to retire yet. I understand at my age, you can only make decisions season by season. But I want to finish my career at Liverpool. I don't want to play for anyone else."

The cloud hanging over the future of the club, with Tom Hicks and George Gillett looking to sell, could cause problems with regard to contractual negotiations.

And Hicks has suggested it could take a couple of years to wrap up a sale. "From discussions we've had over the last two years, there are plenty of those people [potential investors in Liverpool] out there," Hicks said in The Times. "We've owned it three years. We won't own it for five.

"I can still be a fan. But I've paid a terrible price. I'm 64 years old. I don't want that any more.

"Jerry Jones [the Dallas Cowboys owner] is a good friend of mine, but his life and his family's life is the Dallas Cowboys. Mark Cuban, the Dallas Mavericks are his life. This isn't my life."

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