Liverpool is confronted with a seismic summer edition – whatever happens in the remaining weeks of the season.
The Reds are still chances to welcome the Premier League title in Anfield, but within weeks it can also say goodbye to a whole team of players in the busiest and most important transfer window in recent club history.
The future of MO Salah, Trent Alexander-Arnold and Virgil van Dijk, the Large Three Contract, has been a subplot for the entire debut campaign by Arne Slot.
And it is no longer unthinkable that all three will leave and are followed by a number of others from the exit door of Anfield.
Kop Boss Slot and Anfield Chiefs are also alert because European rivals circle around the first teamers, such as Ibrahima Konate and Luis Diaz.
Then there are BIT-Part players such as Back-up goalkeeper Cooimhin Kelleher, Harvey Elliott and Joe Gomez who regularly want football.
And even if the Reds would welcome offers for under -performing stars such as Darwin Nunez and Diogo Jota, they would still have to find high -quality replacements in order to give the chance to keep Momentum.
Despite Liverpool's Champions League exit and defeat in the Carabao Cup final, the Dutchman's season is assessed a huge success if he delivers the Premier League crown that would bring the club level with Manchester United
But Slot has familiarized the core of players who have revived the Reds under Jurgen Klopp.
If this is the start of a glorious new era in Anfield, Slot Chief Executive of Football Michael Edwards and sports director Richard Hughes needs to deliver a new look team that is suitable for the goal.
Mohamed Salah
Whether the Egyptian king chose to become a member of a European rival such as Inter Milan or to take the money from Saudi Aarabia, he would be absolutely irreplaceable.
With 27 goals and 17 assists, Salah was involved in 63.7 percent of Premier League goals from Liverpool this season.
There is no like-for-like option to get in the shoes of the third highest score in club history and a legend of English and world football.
The Reds pulled a rabbit out of the hat when they signed Kenny Dalglish to succeed Kevin Keegan as their most important man in 1977. This is a greater task.
Trent Alexander-Arnold
Most Liverpool fans accept that “The Scouser in Our Team” goes to Real Madrid to become a member of the new Bestie Jude Bellingham.
Proponents also know that recruiting a right with the same passing reach and potential will be impossible in the future. There is a reason why TAA is the most productive auxiliary provider from his position in the Premier League history, with 62 at the age of only 25.
The trick will be to find someone who can defend better, still delivers enough on the other side of the field to give compensation for his absence. Success.
Virgil van Dijk
The accepted wisdom on MerseSide remains that Captain Van Dijk is the of the big three who will sign a new deal to keep it in Anfield.
However, the man himself has given that opinion little support in recent weeks, as rumors about the interest of Real Madrid, Saudi Arabia and elsewhere, die off and returns.
But for Salah's incredible figures, the Dutchman would be a leading candidate for player of the year. He is generally considered one of the best central defenders who have been playing in England in recent decades.
Marc Guehi and Bournemouth's Dean Huijsen from Crystal Palace are among those advertised as successors. Neither is currently at the same level. But again, who is?
Ibrahima Konate
Apart from the defeats of Paris Saint-Germain and Newcastle, the most alarming and unexpected development of recent weeks was the doubt about the future of Van Dijk's center.
You could reject that the French international would welcome a summer struggle for his signature as a disaster by the clubs with their friends in the local media or the product of a slow news day. But it may not be.
The sensitivity of Konate to injury has been a problem in the past, but the Reds could not afford to lose him, regardless of what happens to Van Dijk.
Luis Diaz
The connections between Diaz and Barcelona are just as long as the financial problems of the La Liga giants that make such a deal challenging.
But in the midst of a busy summer in Camp Nou, with Barca reportedly prepared to cash in bankable stars such as Frenkie de Jong and Raphinha, Diaz will be on their radar.
Liverpool would not necessarily be averse to the sale of the Colombians after he had not retained his shape in the early season and Cody Gakpo became the first choice on the left flank.
Nevertheless, Slot would like someone with a high caliber and/or versatility to push Gakpo and what other attackers he has after the summer.
Darwin Nunez
The time of Captain Chaos in Anfield is certainly on after another season of incidental highlights, but even greater lows.
Liverpool would have rejected an £ 62 million plus add-ons from Al-Nassr in January because they did not have enough time to find a suitable replacement for the Uruguayan.
Al-Nassr, instead, signed Jhon Duran van Aston Villa, but other Saudi clubs remain enthusiastic about the Reds' Nr. 9.
Rumors about Atletico Madrid will not disappear either. What reimbursement Liverpool can get for Nunez must be more wisely invested than the first £ 64 million that they spent to him three years ago.
Caoimhin Kelleher
Enough is certainly enough for the keeper who is the No 1 of the Republic of Ireland, but it also deserves the first choice for a club.
That is not going to happen in Liverpool, with the Georgian Stop Giorgi Mamardashvili who arrives this summer to push Alisson for his place and, if all goes well, take it in the not too distant future.
The Reds rejected bids from Nottingham Forest and others in recent transferers and Kelleher filled in well for Alisson, while the Brazilian was injured earlier in the season.
But with Bournemouth, who is now becoming a member of the ranks of clubs that are ready to give the Irish his big chance, he will certainly be on the road in the summer.
Harvey Elliott
Brighton and Borussia Dortmund belonged to the clubs that watched a move to Elliott in January.
The player himself was quick to talk about a winter movement, and emphasized that he had spoken with his lack of playing time and understood how difficult it was to break into a team that did so well.
Yet Elliott's determination to stay – and the determination of the Reds to keep it – would be tested by substantial summer offers for a player with just over two years on his contract.
The attacking midfielder/Vooruit – and doubt about his most effective position is a factor – has made only 21 performances this season, compared to 53 in the last campaign of Klopp, with no start in the Premier League.
Joe Gomez
Gomez went from Klopp from an important player in the farewell season to an outsider, although he seemed to return to the favor before a hamstring injury sidelined him.
The Reds is said to have recorded Gomez as a brand weight in the proposed deal to sign Anthony Gordon from Newcastle last year.
Eddie Howe will not be the only manager interested in Gomez this summer. Aston Villa, Chelsea and Fulham are all connected to him, together with clubs in Europe.
A move back to London for the former Charlton Academy star, after 10 years in Anfield, looks a good gamble. The Reds would like a replacement that corresponded to his versatility but not his injury record.
Wataru Endo
Fulham, AC Milan and even Barcelona are only a part of the club that is assumed to be interested in the defensive midfielder, who arrived in the summer of 2023 for a vast price of £ 16 million.
The Japanese captain has become a cult hero at Anfield because of his no-nonsense style and cameo roles in closing games for Slot's Side.
Nevertheless, for few, for few, if the Reds can earn a considerable amount of their initial expenses and be able to expand it to secure someone who could put more pressure on Ryan Gravenberch and Alexis Mac Allister for a starting place.
Diogo Jota
As the head number goes, the man from Portugal bears the No. 20, but if Liverpool wins Title no. 20, his contribution will not have been important.
Jota's injury problems have been obscured in the past due to his tendency to have scorre bars at important moments.
But just like Nunez, the 28 -year -old this season did not do enough to share the score load with the incredible Salah.
Despite that and his physical vulnerability, a number of clubs at home and abroad would be willing to offer Jota the opportunity to make a new start, perhaps including former employers wolves.
Federio Chiesa
Serie A Title Rivals Inter Milan and Napoli were both interested in bringing Chiesa back in January, after being a lack of playing time at Anfield affected by injuries
To what was only a consolation goal in the Carabao Cup final, Chiesa's most memorable contribution to the season was his manic celebration of Nunez's late goals in Brentford.
The potential departure of other forward options can make it worth Liverpool's, while it gives the Euro 2020 winner a different season to prove its value.
But after having only spent a first £ 10 million on the Italy international, the chance to earn back that money or even make a profit would also be tempting, probably also for the player.
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