SOCCER:LIVERPOOL HAVE joined Aston Villa in the pursuit of Blackpool's captain Charlie Adam but they may have to double their €4.7 million valuation before Ian Holloway even considers allowing his prize asset to leave Bloomfield Road.

Fenway Sports Group, Liverpool’s owner, have inquired about Adam’s availability as they look to strengthen Kenny Dalglish’s squad in several departments. Damien Comolli, the club’s director of football strategy, has confirmed Liverpool are interested in Luis Suarez of Ajax and Villa’s Ashley Young, although both deals are fraught with difficulty. The same applies to Adam, with Blackpool having rejected bids of €3 million and €4 million from Villa and Holloway repeatedly insisting the midfielder should stay to ensure the club’s Premier League survival.

Liverpool’s interest has not progressed to an official bid but they would have no trouble improving Adam’s €9,500-a-week contract at Blackpool, which has a season and a half to run.

A bigger problem is meeting Blackpool’s valuation of a player instrumental in their outstanding transition to the Premier League.

The Blackpool manager has, however, conceded a sizeable bid would be considered. Rangers, who sold Adam for €600,000 in 2009, are entitled to a 10 per cent sell-on fee. “Realistically, with the choice he [Adam] might have in the summer, our heads might be turned by a huge offer which is so ridiculous we’d have to accept it,” said Holloway.

Liverpool’s position on Adam’s fee may alter as the transfer deadline approaches and Holloway, speaking after completing a league double over them last week, first admitted a big offer from a major club could change his stance. He said: “My goal is to get him to a top-four or top-five club and I would still include Liverpool in that bracket, despite where they are this season. Why should he go anywhere else?

“As our captain I’ll ask him to help us stay up, which would be unbelievable, and then he can go. But if Manchester United made a fantastic offer for him then I’ll have to consider it.”

Dalglish, meanwhile, has described his return to Liverpool as the finest job of his career as he attempts to improve the club’s sorry away form at Wolverhampton Wanderers today.

Liverpool have won once on the road in the Premier League this season, and suffered their eighth away defeat in Dalglish’s first league game in charge, at Blackpool. Unlike in 1985, when Dalglish, then 34 years old, replaced Joe Fagan in the wake of the Heysel disaster and won a league and FA Cup Double in his debut season, the manager finds himself working with a team four points above the relegation zone.

However, Dalglish admits his second chance means more than any other appointment in his illustrious career. He feared the opportunity to manage Liverpool again had gone forever when Roy Hodgson was chosen last summer.

“This is the best job I’ve ever been offered,” said Dalglish. “Why? Because it is Liverpool Football Club. The first time was brilliant but this time is even better.

“It is very seldom you get offered a job and are fortunate enough to have most things in place. For me, coming in here was the best offer I have had in my life and I wasn’t going to turn that down.”