Liverpool’s fans are excited to hear fantastic news for their hero Steven Gerrard who will stay at Anfield till 2013 for a whopping £26million.

The Liverpool skipper, agreed to extend his contract which remains only two year left and now with extension fans of Liverpool will see him at club until 2013, and will see his wages rise nearly £20,000 to around £125,000 a week.

Boss Rafa Benitez said: “It is a very, very positive message to the players that we have the commitment of Gerrard, which means we can go forward and can concentrate on football. We are trying to keep the spine of the team here and with Gerrard we wanted to be sure we keep the captain for a long time.”

He admitted: “We want to show everyone is pushing in the right direction. With Stevie, as soon as we said we wanted to talk about an extension it was agreed very, very quickly.”

Gerrard’s deal was swiftly followed by a similar extension for Dirk Kuyt and Benitez now hopes to thrash out further agreements with Sami Hyypia, Alvaro Arbeloa, Fabio Aurelio and Daniel Agger.

Yet centre-back Jamie Carragher, who still has two years left, will have to wait until the end of the season for his fresh deal.

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