The press will light the fire weeks before the January window and will fan the flames as much as.
Also the better he plays the more in demand he will become.
As far as Spain goes with Barca or Real he will get automatic C/L league plus an easier time in LaLiga, plus he speaks the lingo plus the climate.....right that's it I'm off to Spain as well..
Come January, assuming he is fit and continues to play well, he is the most valuable player in the world. Top drawer, seen as gettable but under a decent length of contract, and crucially and unusually for a player of his quality, he is not CL cup tied. There is the potential for LFC to realise a huge transfer fee.
The flip side of that is that, if we are somewhere near CL qualification, and I suspect we will be, selling him would undermine everything FSG are trying to do - their business plan is about brand building, filling a stadium, selling the club all over the world - and it is contingent on getting back into the CL.
It would be very interesting to see what FSG did if we were, say, 2nd or 3rd, and a foreign club bid 55-60M early in Jan.