"In the first part of the season we were not flying, but Bobby was maybe the only one who played a kind of normal season in a lot of games," Jurgen Klopp told a press conference when asked about Liverpool's attempts to keep Roberto Firmino at the club.
"He’s really important. His link-up play, all these kind of things. The way we want to play, maybe he would not fit to all clubs in the world, but to most, definitely.
"Because in tight areas, having a technical player with his football intelligence, who can develop the game from there and score on top of that, who is unselfish, you don’t get that very often.
"Great player, and I don’t know one thousand percent what his plans are, maybe somebody else will offer him something better, I don’t know, that can all happen.
"But you asked me if I want him to stay. Yes, and everything is as it should be at this moment in time.
"We’re pretty early, the transfer window is not even closed, and we will see."
Firmino's current deal expires in the summer, but it looks like all the parties are keen on extending his stay at Anfield.
According to Fabrizio Romano, Liverpool have offered the 31-year-old a short-term extension.
