They have placed a £35m valuation on Jones and previously rejected an offer worth £21m, judging it short of their expectation. Inter are understood to be prepared to reach €35m, a figure that brings the clubs closer, even if it does not automatically guarantee agreement. Liverpool must weigh up the value of retaining a homegrown player against the risk of seeing his contract run down. Curtis Jones Contract Situation Grows More PressingJones has made 228 appearances since breaking into Liverpool's first team in January 2019, but the central issue is game time. Yet there is also a sense that Liverpool have been having the same conversation around him for too long.