Liverpool boss Arne Slot insisted that he was not struck by speculation about the future of Mohamed Salah, Trent Alexander-Arnold and Virgil van Dijk.
The trio no longer has a contract at the end of the season.
This season Salah has been the striking player of the Premier League and offers 44 target contributions in the top flight.
He is only three goals contributions that match the single-season area of the competition, which is shared by Alan Shearer and Andrew Cole (47).
Van Dijk, in the meantime there has been lively in the defense, while Alexander-Arnold has registered more expected assists (6.72) this season than any other defender in the competition.
“It is a situation that is now eight or nine months,” Slot said when he was asked if he was struck by the speculation about the future of the trio.
“These three players have performed so well under these circumstances. So no, it has no influence on me at all.”
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During the recent international break, Alexander-Arnold was strongly connected to a move to Real Madrid.
The full-back missed Liverpool's defeat against Newcastle United in the EFL Cup final because of an injury and will not be suitable on Wednesday to appear against Everton.
“His situation is that he was unfortunately injured,” said Slot of Alexander-Arnold.
“Otherwise, people would probably have spoken that he had one or two brilliant versions for the English team.
“But he is injured, so for him he is fully focused on his recovery and for us we try to help him to be back as early as possible.”
Liverpool is 12 points clearly at the top of the Premier League, although that gap can be reduced to nine as Arsenal Fulham defeated Tuesday.
The Reds, which were beaten out of the Champions League last month, get a chance of 98.8% to win the title by Opta's supercomputer.
“Everyone can understand the position in which we are at the moment that we all look so much ahead to the next nine games,” said Slot.
“In my opinion, players were renewed, but it was not all negative: we played a final, so we managed to play a final against a very good Newcastle team. And we had a great game and in the other game we defended very well against Paris Saint-Germain, which was the best game so far to my opinion.
“We were defeated by a whole, very, very good team, but what a game we also played. You can always look at the result, which was not the way we wanted in the two games, but I was proud of our performance against PSG. It was perhaps the best game we played this season, but unfortunately we lost it on penalties.”
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