Big Sam determined to hold onto Stelios

Reports from Greece suggest that Liverpool plan to activate a get-out clause in the player's contract that enables him to move for a fee in the region of £1.2 million.

"I’m not sure what Liverpool are doing, but they seem to be linked with everybody at the moment," said the Trotters boss. "I said at the start of the season that I wanted to put those new contracts to bed before I did anything else, but for one reason or another we haven’t been able to do so."