Arne Slot is in the non-enviable position to lose Trent Alexander-Arnold, Virgil van Dijk and Mohamed Salah for free, while Gary Neville indicates the biggest problem of the Liverpool boss
The face of Liverpool is immersed in a hole of £ 250 million if, according to Gary Neville, they do not hold Trent Alexander-Arnold, Virgil van Dijk and Mohamed Salah. The Premier League leaders are 12 points clearly at the top of the table and are probably heading for a second Title Triumph since 2020.
However, the uncertain future of their three biggest stars has thrown a considerable shade throughout the season. All three players are without a contract at the end of the summer, with their respective futures remain unsolved.
To make matters worse, reports from Alexander-Arnold came to leave his boys' club to sign for Real Madrid, a considerable momentum earlier this week. The English star increasingly seems to be adding Jude Bellingham in the Bernabeu next season.
Although the possible output of the right back will undoubtedly destroy Liverpool fans around the world, the fact that it will be free will cause an important problem for lock. The Dutchman also threatens to lose Van Dijk and Salah as free agents, making a huge gap in his team on his way to his second summer as Liverpool -Baas.
During the Thursday edition of the Stick to Football Podcast, offered you by Sky Bet, the Manchester United -legend that the Merseyside outfit will not have the available means to replace their three superstars if they all leave.
“At the end of the season, Liverpool will leave a huge gap if those three players [Virgil van Dijk, Mo Salah and Trent Alexander-Arnold] Leave free, “said Neville.” They don't have the money to replace them, and you could claim that there is a quarter billion pounds in those three. You are talking about one of the best strikers in Europe, one of the best center halves in Europe and one of the best right backs in Europe. “
Slot, 46, has had minimal things to compete in his first two transfer markets in Liverpool, with only Federico Chiesa and Giorgi Mhaldashvili signed, with the last summer coming to the club. In addition to the company, he is expected to pop up the Reds team at the end of the season, Neville warned the club's hierarchy that they push their manager into a seriously difficult situation.
“Even as good as Liverpool has been in recruitment, that is a gap of a quarter of a billion pound,” he said. “They have been good in recruitment so that they could replace them, but that is a great thing that Arne Slot has to do with.”
Neville also gave a warning to Alexander-Arnold about his chances at a starting berth in Madrid, if he indeed moves to the Spanish capital. I said I thought he was [Trent Alexander-Arnold] Had to become more serious about his defense – I said it is constant – otherwise it will cause him problems, “he said.
“I think it will cause him a problem at Real Madrid because they have Federico Valverde, who is currently playing right back, and Dani Carvajal when he is going back has a serious competition. They are brilliant players, and he will find it tough there.
'[On whether Valverde and Carvajal are better than Trent] I think carvajal, from a balance between ahead and back the problem is that he is 32 and has had a bad injury for me, Carvajal is a better full-back than Trent because of what he gives to the team.
“It is incredible what Valverde is doing for them at the moment, so he will have competition when he goes.”
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