TNT Sports activities pundit and former Liverpool star Steve McManaman has supplied encouraging information concerning the contract conditions of Trent Alexander-Arnold, Mo Salah, and Virgil van Dijk.
McManaman shared his insights throughout Liverpool’s 2-0 Champions League win over Bologna, by which Mo Salah performed a pivotal function.
Salah was instrumental in securing Liverpool’s second Champions League win of the season. The Egyptian ahead arrange the opening purpose with an excellent cross that allowed Alexis Mac Allister to faucet the ball in, giving Liverpool the lead.
He then sealed the victory within the seventy fifth minute with a shocking purpose, slicing onto his left foot and curling the ball into the highest nook.
Steve Mcmanaman on the present contract state of affairs of Liverpool trio
Earlier than the sport, McManaman addressed the contract conditions of Liverpool’s key trio. He defined that the delay in Alexander-Arnold’s new deal could also be linked to the behind-the-scenes adjustments on the membership, significantly the departure of sporting director and the managerial change with Jurgen Klopp’s departure. Regardless of this, McManaman stays optimistic that new contracts for Alexander-Arnold, Salah, and Van Dijk are imminent.
McManaman emphasised that the membership is working quietly however diligently on securing these offers and gained’t make any official statements till they’re finalised.
He stated (as quoted by Liverpool Echo):
“The circumstances for Trent and the way it’s come, that is well-known. The sporting director and Jurgen [Klopp] leaving, so it’s received to this limbo, of kinds. What’s serving to is Virgil and Mo Salah are in the identical predicament.
“There’s been an issue inside the membership that it hasn’t been sorted out sooner. Hopefully, it gained’t be onerous for the three of them – specific Trent – to get all of it sorted amicably.
“I do know they’ve all been speaking within the membership. I’ve been speaking to the gamers, so it’s nicely on the way in which, the membership gained’t say something till it’s signed, sealed and delivered.”
Liverpool are threading very dangerously in the mean time. The trio is arguably the very best three gamers on the membership, and it’s fairly surprising that they’ve let the state of affairs come so far the place in the event that they fail to return to an settlement within the subsequent few months, all three may go away the membership on a free switch.
The gamers have beforehand hinted at their inclination in direction of staying on the membership, suggesting that it’s as much as the membership. Followers might be anxiously ready for the Reds to type this out and announce the extensions.
