Arne Slot could not believe that he was asked about the contracting situation of three star players in the immediate aftermath of the defeat of Liverpool's Gut-Werning Champions League against Paris Saint-Germain.
The Reds were dumped from Europe Premier competition on penalties, forcing the match to spot kicks in Spot-Kicks after Ousmane Dembele's early goal had canceled the benefit of Liverpool in the first stage.
Gianluigi Donnarumma came into the shooting, taken for Anfield's Away End and denied Curtis Jones and Darwin Nunez of the place to catapult the Parisiens in the quarterfinals.
A rare low point of a season that had only had his highlights, Slot could only help when a reporter asked him with the same recurring question about the future of Mo Salah, Virgil van Dijk and Trent Alexander-Arnold while he kept coming up with a defeat.
“It's creative to come up with the contract situation,” he said. “That's the last thing I think about.
“Liverpool showed itself and hopefully they will be more lucky next year.”
This year's contracts of Salah, Van Dijk and Alexander-Arnold have been a fascinating subplot of the success of Liverpool, all three of this summer.
With the trio that the spine of the Liverpool team represents – the leader, the Talisman and the maker – Reds -fans have waited for at least one of them to write a new deal.
However, nothing important has been heard of the official channels of Liverpool about this.
Focus on MerseSide will nevertheless be on the damn result of Tuesday, with one of the tournament favorites that crash in the most painful way.
After he had awarded the competition phase, Liverpool would have felt it has been difficult to get into the draw after he had signed a colleague Champions League top candidate in PSG.
And despite scraping through the bone with a 'smash and grab' 1-0 win, the side of Luis Enrique were too difficult to break down in Anfield, ending Slot's hope for a domestic and European double.
“We had bad luck after last week,” Slot added. 'After 90 minutes for me it clearly felt that we deserved more.
“I was waiting for us to score. They threatened once or twice in the second half and we played the perfect game apart from us scoring, it was the same for them last week. They might have been stronger in extra time.
'I have never seen them as intense and aggressive as today. If you put so much effort and do not get a reward, it is sometimes difficult.
'It feels a bit unfair to go out in this round. If you are top, you are confronted with a cool team like PSG, but that is a nice part of football. Everyone all over the world likes to look at this game.
“We were lucky last week, but we didn't have it today. Now it is clear what we have to do for the rest of the season. '
Liverpool will now only focus on domestic matches, while on Sunday they are staring the course of a Carabao Cup final against Newcastle against Newcastle.
They will try to shake off the disappointment of Tuesday and prevail from Wembley to secure their first piece of silverware of the season.
The Reds are also on track for Premier League Glory this season and are 15 points free of the second placed Arsenal with nine games to play.
The side of Slot needs a maximum of five victories and a draw of their remaining fixtures to a record-similar 20th time through crowned competition champions.
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