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Liverpool’s outstanding begin to the season below new supervisor Arne Slot has solidified their place as Premier League frontrunners, holding a seven-point lead on the prime with a recreation in hand.
The Reds have additionally shone on the European stage, comfortably advancing from the Champions League group part, and are contenders for home silverware after reaching the League Cup semi-finals.
Regardless of their dominance, Liverpool face challenges off the pitch as accidents and contract uncertainties demand consideration.
Fabrizio Romano drops replace on Liverpool switch plans
Switch skilled Fabrizio Romano has revealed that whereas reinforcements is perhaps explored, the membership’s major focus in January shall be addressing the contracts of three key gamers—Trent Alexander-Arnold, Virgil van Dijk, and Mohamed Salah.
Alexander-Arnold, Van Dijk, and Salah are all set to change into free brokers on the finish of the season, putting Liverpool in a race towards time to safe their futures. Failure to achieve agreements earlier than January 1 would enable the gamers to barter pre-contract agreements with international golf equipment.
Chatting with GiveMeSport, Romano shared the membership’s plans for 2025, emphasising on the urgency of the contract scenario. He mentioned:
“In the summertime shall be busy for positive, Liverpool are already monitoring gamers for the summer time. The principle focus now’s on Trent, Salah, and Van Dijk’s contracts.”
Contract extensions of Mo Salah, Virgil van Dijk and Trent Alexander-Arnold stays Liverpool’s precedence. (Picture by Eric Alonso, Alex Pantling, Maja Hitij/Getty Pictures)
Accidents have additionally examined Liverpool’s depth. Whereas gamers like Alisson, Diogo Jota, Federico Chiesa, and Harvey Elliott have all returned to motion, the crew stays with out Conor Bradley and Ibrahima Konate.
Slot should still look so as to add reinforcements in January to additional bolster their possibilities to compete within the a number of fronts with the Reds at present in each competitors.
Liverpool’s switch exercise in the summertime of 2024 was comparatively quiet, with Federico Chiesa and Giorgi Mamardashvili being the one notable additions. Nevertheless, Romano hinted that the membership is getting ready for a busy summer time in 2025, with plans already underway to scout potential targets.
Nevertheless, the instant focus for everybody will stay on the contract extensions for his or her three superstars.
Most up-to-date experiences recommend that the membership is closing in on contracts for a minimum of two of the three gamers. It was reported that the membership has reached an settlement with Van Dijk and one other report additionally claimed that the membership may additionally very quickly announce Mo Salah’s 2-year contract extension.
Trent Alexander-Arnold’s contract scenario seems to essentially the most sophisticated one with the participant’s reported wage calls for and the lure of Actual Madrid making it tougher for the membership to come back to an settlement.
