Arne Slot has edited Liverpool's record-equivalent 20th top-flight title, but worrying for the rest of the Premier League, does the Dutchman say that his side will only be better next season? Where can the champions strengthen?
Slot may have become the first Dutch coach who won the Premier League after the Reds have dismantled Tottenham Hotspur on Anfield on Sunday, but it did not take long before the Liverpool head coach began to focus his attention to defend the title next season.
“We can certainly improve,” said Slot ominously when he was asked to look back on his incredible debut campaign that was in charge of the club. “I think we should get even better.”
Former Liverpool – captain Jamie Carragher agrees and tells Sky Sports de Reds “need at least five or six players – three to go straight into the team and three to be strong back -ups – with so many parts of the team to improve” next season.
After he only brought in Giorgi Mhamardashvili from Valencia – before he led him back to the LaLiga side – and Juventus' Federico Chiesa last summer, Slot is reportedly set to the transfer market by the owners of the club's owners The Fenway Sports Group [FSG].
So where will the Liverpool -head coach and sports director Richard Hughes strengthen the team to try to try to win title no. 21?
Jeepers' Keepers
Alisson demonstrated with his incredible player-of-the-match display against PSG in the Parc des Princes in March that he might remain the best goalkeeper in the Premier League.
Although the Brazilian is still only 32, he only has a contract with Anfield until 2027, while the Mhamardashvili to be transcended soon has already made it clear that he is coming to the club to close a first team for a place for the first team next season.
If Saudi clubs were to restore their interest in Alisson after he rejected an approach with a big money last summer, it will be interesting to see whether Michael Edwards, CEO of Football at FSG, both in him and Caoimhin Kelleher, who is expected to leave Anfield to be received for the Red No 2, in order.
Big defensive shake-up?
Left-back is a priority position for Liverpool this summer after the relative drop-off of Andy Robertson this season, where the club is interested in signing Bournemouth's Milos Kerkez. However, they are not the only freer of the Hungary International, while Ajax's Jorrel Hato Die can play as a left back and left-sided middle behind also on the radar of the Reds.
In the meantime, Trent Alexander-Arnold is expected to confirm his departure on a free transfer to Real Madrid, so that Conor Bradley will be left behind Liverpool's only rightback.
And then there is the heart of the defense, where Carragher claims that his former club “needs a center-back as a backup for the two [Virgil van Dijk and Ibrahima Konate] That we have. “
The situation is somewhat complicated by the fact that Konate still offered the contract extension to him at the end of last year, with his current deal in just over 12 months.
But in an ideal world it is clear that Hughes would like to bring in a new left-wing central back, with the dean Huijsen of Bournemouth and the Marc Guehi of Crystal Palace, allegedly in consideration, while Kostas Tsimikas, Jarell Quansah and Joe Gomez can all be sold to increase the budget of the summer.
Support for Gravenberch
Although left back this summer is an important area for Liverpool, along with a striker and a wide forward, if they are successful with those positions, they will look at a new central midfielder.
This is a positive lock that has been identified as a reinforcement of his arrival last summer, only for the club to miss their first-choice goal when Spain midfielder Martin Zubimendi set off a move to Anfield to stay in real Sociedad this season.
That late change of heart may have been a disguised blessing for Slot, who used Ryan Gravenberch in the role instead with enormous success.
However, Carragher still thinks that Liverpool has to strengthen in this area and March's The Overlap fan debate: “I don't think he [Slot] Has every time for four or five players in that team. I can accept that this season, because this is not really his team, but next season I am sure he will bring players. He needs a midfielder to replace Endo, someone younger. “
And reportedly, the Reds think about a summer movement for the impressive young English defending midfielder Adam Wharton of Crystal Palace, while a more attacking option could be Lyon's Rayan Cherki, where the club is open to let Harvey Elliott leave.
'Lack of pace in the attack is striking'
As mentioned, Hughes and Edwards will certainly focus on a new striker and a wide ahead next season after the much-published travails of Darwin Nunez for the goal and the continuous injuries of Diogo Jota in January of Diogo Jota, the continuous injuries, with the formerly expected of the Reds's services.
Luis Diaz is one of a number of players who have been confirmed to the end of this campaign, but with the contract of the 28-year-old who ends in the summer of 2027 and reportedly likes to sign the attacker, the club should decide whether he should give the Colombian a new bumper deal because he is still on the same conditions when he is cash in January 2022 or to.
“The lack of pace in the team is staring at the attack,” said Carragher, with Bryan Mbeumo by Brentford in serious consideration to be the long -term replacement of Mohamed Salah on the right -wing side of the attack, while Joao Pedro of Brighton is also supposed to have admirers.
“The other attackers [apart from Salah] Liverpool has good players, not great players. Liverpool has to buy two attackers. No team players, but players to play with Salah. “