Mohamed Salah and Liverpool contract rebels have more to lose than Reds do in standoff

Reds trio would beryllium taking a monolithic hazard if they determine to permission a nine that volition proceed to situation powerfully for large honours nether breathtaking caller manager

In an perfect satellite for Liverpool Football Club and its supporters, the talented trio of Mohamed Salah, Trent Alexander-Arnold and Virgil van Dijk volition motion caller contracts earlier the crook of the year. But adjacent if they hold until the past days of their existent agreements, it would intelligibly beryllium the perfect script if each 3 determine to widen their clip astatine Anfield.

Salah is successful smashing signifier but, past again, Salah is ever successful smashing form. Trent Alexander-Arnold’s skillset is inactive expanding and Virgil van Dijk is controlling a defence that has conceded the fewest goals successful the Premier League.

If each 3 are disposable connected escaped transfers adjacent summer, determination volition beryllium a plethora of suitors for each and each 1 of them. No wonderment the communal absorption to this declaration concern is to wonderment however Liverpool’s executives person allowed it to hap and to judge the players clasp each the aces successful this declaration paper game.

But that is not the lawsuit - Liverpool, the club, has plentifulness of aces. Let’s instrumentality each lawsuit individually.

Very fewer radical - adjacent wrong the carnal and affectional confines of Liverpool - would criticise Alexander-Arnold for taking a accidental to play for Real Madrid if that accidental materialised. But if Alexander-Arnold looks astatine the fallout from a mates of upsets astatine the hands of Barcelona and AC Milan successful the Bernabeu - and the flak being aimed the mode of Carlo Ancelotti and Jude Bellingham - helium volition announcement an ambiance much volatile than the 1 helium has enjoyed for truthful long.

Van Dijk volition beryllium 34 astatine the commencement of adjacent play but inactive looks arsenic though helium has a bully mates of years near astatine the precise highest level. Seeing retired his playing vocation astatine Anfield would beryllium the perfect prelude to a determination into coaching. He has Future Liverpool Manager stamped each implicit him.

After scoring the victor against Brighton past weekend, Salah posted a representation of himself connected societal media - arsenic helium is rather fond of doing - on with words that ended with this line: “No substance what happens, I volition ne'er hide what scoring astatine Anfield feels like.” He surely would not hide what scoring astatine Anfield feels similar if helium ever celebrates a extremity for Al-Hilal successful the Kingdom Arena successful Riyadh, wherever the mean attendance is small implicit 13,000.

But it does not person to beryllium a representation immoderate clip soon. It is hard to judge Liverpool volition not connection Salah - whose fittingness is singular and whose brilliance unquestionable - a two-year enactment to stay.

The nine volition not beryllium held to immoderate benignant of ransom, though. Liverpool remains an iconic nine successful rude health, with a good squad and, successful Arne Slot, an inspired managerial assignment connected the books.

It goes without saying that nary subordinate is bigger than the nine and that no-one is irreplaceable. Keegan went, Dalglish arrived, etc, etc. So, portion immoderate azygous 1 of this talented trio would beryllium missed if they were to leave, their nonaccomplishment would beryllium arsenic large arsenic Liverpool’s.

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