Liverpool told which one of their three contract rebels would 'not be a huge loss'

Mohamed Salah, Virgil van Dijk and Trent Alexander-Arnold are each retired of declaration successful the summer, with Liverpool astatine hazard of losing each 3 of their stars for nothing

Former Liverpool striker Stan Collymore believes the Reds tin spend to suffer Trent Alexander-Arnold, with the right-back 1 of 3 elder stars retired of declaration successful the summer.

Alexander-Arnold, Mohamed Salah and Virgil van Dijk are each escaped to motion pre-contract agreements with imaginable suitors, oregon permission for escaped astatine the extremity of June erstwhile their existent deals tally out. Real Madrid stay keen connected the England international, but failed with their efforts to unit a woody done successful January.

Arne Slot's squad stay successful rod presumption successful the Premier League, and progressed to the Champions League circular of 16 arsenic apical seeds aft winning 7 of their 8 league signifier matches. The aboriginal of the trio remains a concern, though, with manager Slot regularly asked astir what mightiness travel next.

Collymore was an Anfield team-mate of Steve McManaman, who would spell connected to permission the Reds for Real Madrid successful 1999. If Liverpool's existent homegrown leader follows suit, though, the pundit thinks they person the tools to determination on.

“Looking astatine probabilities, I'd accidental there's a 90% accidental Van Dijk stays, astir 60% for Salah, and a 50/50 accidental for Alexander-Arnold — bizarrely, due to the fact that he’s the Scouser!" Collymore told William Hill Vegas. "But erstwhile you’ve won everything with your boyhood club, arsenic Trent has, a determination overseas becomes tempting.

“Trent isn’t a large defender, but he’s a fantastic footballer, and a league similar La Liga would suit him perfectly. Real Madrid would let him to drift into midfield, person much clip connected the ball, and play to his strengths. If helium goes there, you couldn’t begrudge him — it’s Real Madrid!

“If Liverpool were to suffer Trent, they could find a right-back who gets into attacking positions, truthful I wouldn’t accidental his departure would beryllium a immense loss. The bigger contented would beryllium losing Van Dijk. Van Dijk won’t privation to origin problems — helium conscionable wants the close woody — but Liverpool request to hole for the future. They should beryllium getting idiosyncratic similar Jarell Quansah up to speed, but determination are inactive question marks implicit him.”

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Alexander-Arnold has played a large portion successful Liverpool's awesome season. The Reds volition person to play the 2nd limb of their Carabao Cup semi-final without him, though, aft helium was forced disconnected successful the play triumph implicit Bournemouth.

“He is going to miss the crippled time [against Tottenham successful the Carabao Cup] and we person to spot if helium is capable to play connected Sunday [in the FA Cup against Plymouth]," Slot said connected Wednesday. "What we bash cognize is helium is not disposable to play tomorrow.

"I deliberation you saw helium near the transportation with a spot of a symptom successful his limb truthful that’s wherefore helium misses the crippled tomorrow. But he’s already connected the pitch, not with the squad but with the rehab manager truthful let’s spot however agelong it’s going to instrumentality but he’s not going to beryllium disposable tomorrow.”

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