Thomas Ince is desperate to move back to Liverpool and is trying to force his way through by holding talks with Blackpool.
The Championship club are holding out for a larger fee close to £6 million ($9.6 million), with Liverpool only making an offer of around £4 million ($6.4 million).
Concerned by the talks coming to a halt, Ince has asked his father Paul for help, with the father-son duo now looking to come to an agreement with Blackpool, according to the Daily Mirror.
Ince is also owed a 10 percent sell-on fee if he were to make a move out of Blackpool, which is another issue that needs to be sorted.
The 20-year-old, who left Liverpool in the summer of 2011, is desperate to link up with Brendan Rodgers' men and has therefore moved quickly to try and end the impasse.
Meanwhile, Rodgers said Luis Suarez might have to play out of position to make way for Liverpool's new signing Daniel Sturridge.
The Liverpool manager insisted Sturridge's best position was down the middle, with Suarez currently the leading scorer in the Premier League.
"Daniel's best position is as a central striker, and I think the best role for him will be straight through the middle, with his pace," Rodgers said.
"Where will Luis play then? He'll play for the common good of the team.
"But don't tell me it's a problem -- it's never a problem having good players.
"Wherever Luis plays, he will make the same movements and find the space, because he is a world class player."
While Suarez has sparkled in a lone striker's role this season, Rodgers might choose to play the Uruguayan in a more withdrawn position in the No. 10 role.
"There is not just one way to play 4-3-3. You can have one up and two wingers, a floating nine like Luis," he added.
"Or you can have one like Daniel playing central, two in and around him narrow, with the full-backs bombing on.
"The principles of your game are based on your players and I think, with Daniel, there are not many quicker so he'll give us that extra power up there as well.
"I've said that Luis is like Messi in his love of the game, and his desire to work for the team. He always wants what's best for this team, and you can see that in the way he plays. It is not a problem for this group.
"When Luis was at Ajax he played in behind as a number 10, in between the lines and he played as a reverse winger from the left, so he wasn't quite out wide -- he was tucked in round the corner.
"I spoke with Luis at length on it a number of times. This has been in the plan for a few months. The principles of your game are based on your players."
The move might pay off and bring other Liverpool players more into play, and particularly quell the overreliance on Suarez. However, it does beg the question: Why fix something that isn't even remotely broken?
