Liverpool is almost on the benefits of not cashing in some of their most appreciated assets in recent transfer markets
Liverpool-Vleugel player Mohamed Salah celebrates with teammate Darwin Nunez (image: Justin Tallis/AFP via Getty Images)
Trent Alexander-Arnold, Mohamed Salah and Darwin Nunez are all about to lift the Premier League trophy. But no big leap of imagination is needed to present their title fights, could have been done elsewhere at the moment.
If Real Madrid had their way, Alexander-Arnold would be in the Bernabeu who tried to chase La Liga leaders Barcelona who moved to Spain in January.
Salah would have been in Saudi Arabia for a long time, with Al-Actihad making an eye-water £ 150 million bid for the services of the Egyptian in September 2023.
And Nunez could also have been easy to work in the Saudi Pro League with Al-Hilal if Liverpool had been more receptive to an approach towards the end of the January transfer window.
The decision not to sell NUNEZ, despite the fact that the Uruguay International has increasingly fallen the pecking order in the attack of Arne Slot, this week is a way to reject suggestions from Portugal that Liverpool chooses not to restart the striker this season to prevent him from being over to Benfica as part of the deal that dealing him.
If the Reds wanted to save real money on Nunez, the club would be open to conversations about the sale of the player in the new year.
But the fact that they have rejected the interest, underlined a policy that has become clear in the last few years of refusing to cash in on their players with the risk that the ability to endanger challenges for distinctions.
It is precisely the reason why Real Madrid was not offered an encouragement when they reached an approach for Alexander-Arnold during the Christmas period in the hope of sniffing the player six months before the planned decline of his contract for a nominal compensation.
Given Alexander -Arnold the winner in Leicester City on Sunday afternoon in the head of the title of Leicester City, and it was in impressive form before the ankle injury where he came back after almost six weeks after almost six weeks – it seems to have been a wise move.
Alexander-Arnold could of course end up in Real Madrid in the summer while he thinks up an offer from the proponents of the European Super League. Liverpool did not give up hope for him to donate a new deal to Anfield.
There will be such concerns about Salah, who agreed earlier this month a new two -year contract extension that would also become a free agent at the end of the season. Since Liverpool rejected the mammoth offer from Saudi Arabia, Salah has made 88 performances for Liverpool, scored 56 goals and contributes 35 assists. Few would claim that the correct decision was made.
Nunez is in a slightly different situation in the sense that, unlike Alexander-Arnold and Salah, he was not a fixture when the transfer interest came. The insistence of Liverpool that he remained, however, was perhaps the biggest indication that they wanted to give Arne Slot every opportunity to have a team that could compete in the second half of the season for major awards.
With the Saudi Pro League, their interest expected to arouse again at the end of the season – Al -Hilal can make a fast move, given their involvement in the Summer Fifa Club World Cup – Liverpool, a different question from Nunez could be asked instead of later.
But that every departure is likely to be a Premier League winner is again proof of a Canny Call from the club not to sell in January.