Liverpool latest contract situation as fans still anticipating deals for star players Mohammed Salah, Virgil Van Dijk and Trent Alexander-Arnold
As Liverpool’s star performers are still without refreshed contracts and fans eagerly anticipating the news that they will continue their stay at Anfield, we’re looking at the latest contract situation as two fresh deals have been organised which holds them in good stead for the season.
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00:00What's the latest you can tell us about Liverpool's contract situation?
00:25So it looks like Ibrahim Kanata and Gerald Kwanzaa are close to penning fresh terms.
00:31Are those the players that Liverpool fans firstly wanted to sign contracts?
00:37No, because when you've got Virgil van Dijk, Mo Salah and Trent Alexander-Arnold all out of contracts at the end of the season,
00:46those would be sometimes the priority.
00:50I think the nature of the deals with Kanata and Kwanzaa, they were maybe easier to do.
00:55Certainly with Gerald Kwanzaa, he's 21, he hasn't played a lot this season but he had a fantastic breakthrough campaign last term.
01:05And for a 21-year-old, where else would you want to go?
01:10There's always going to be rewards with a new bunker deal and Ibrahim Kanata has had a really good start to the season.
01:18A bit of an up-and-down campaign last term.
01:22Ends out of the team in Jürgen Klopp's final few games and has injury problems.
01:28But I think so far this campaign, he's shown just what an asset he can be.
01:32And he's very much been Virgil van Dijk's partner in crime and in central defence.
01:39And the big challenge for him is to stay fit now.
01:43He's been playing two games a week to be fair and that was a big question mark around him.
01:47But the ones that Liverpool fans want to get teams on are Virgil van Dijk, Mo Salah and Trent Alexander-Arnold.
01:54And they are more difficult for obvious reasons.
01:57With fans like Salah, they're both in their 30s and Liverpool may be hesitant to give them long-term deals
02:05or the sort of wages that they might be looking for.
02:09Trent Alexander-Arnold will obviously want a contract that reflects his stature in the Liverpool team.
02:15He's vice-captain. I think he's just turned 26, so very much in his peak years.
02:21And of course, there's those Real Madrid links that continue to linger.
02:27So that one is maybe a little bit more niche for different reasons.
02:34And yeah, that's a big challenge with the Sporting Director, Richard Hughes.
02:38No-one's out of the slot, so keep getting asked about those contract situations throughout the campaign.
02:45But you've got to take the positives that Liverpool are tying down Canarte and Kwanzaa.
02:50And maybe the next one they might look at is Luis Diaz.
02:53Potentially he's got two and a half years left on his deal if Liverpool are following that policy.