There’s a level when Liverpool have to take a look at what’s finest for Liverpool quite than their gamers, it doesn’t matter what they’ve achieved previously.
Virgil van Dijk might be 34 when subsequent season begins and Mohamed Salah 33. Their contracts run out this summer season and while each are at the moment on prime of their sport, the membership want to carry a longer-term view.
There’s a stability between the chance of van Dijk and Salah sustaining current requirements and the truth they may not.
You need some industrial stability within the dialog. If the one dialogue is ‘how a lot would you like?’ adopted by ‘OK, we’ll simply give it to you’, that is not negotiation.
Relating to van Dijk, I’m not totally positive I might be signing a central defender his age on a four-year contract. I might slant it to present him two assured years with choices hooked up based mostly on attainment.
Arne Slot is three video games into his Liverpool tenure however might be with out the trio subsequent season
Every little thing involves an finish and I would not need to supply any 34-year-old a contemporary 4 years at an elite Premier League membership.
I might attempt to do a performance-related contract with out insulting the participant. If I like his type proper now however had a slight concern over the long run, you must make the third yr an choice.
However you would wish a type of wording so he would not really feel the membership might be Machiavellian and sideline him later to cease him triggering an extension.
The gamers this present day will not be going to love the suggestion they’ll must carry out to receives a commission. However the membership has to guard itself in case type deteriorates of their mid-thirties.
It’s troublesome. Regardless of my barely harsh and maybe unwise observations about Salah not being world-class, he is appeared outstanding this season when it comes to perspective.
The third participant whose deal is ending, Trent Alexander-Arnold, is a special scenario due to his age and resale worth.
Liverpool’s first activity is to search out what’s motivating every participant. If it is cash with Salah you’re competing in opposition to economics you possibly can’t win.
Liverpool will not be going to pay him the £600,000-a-week or no matter else he would get in Saudi.
Van Dijk (proper) might be 34 when subsequent season begins and Salah (left) might be 33. While each are at the moment on prime of their sport, the membership want to carry a longer-term view
Alexander-Arnold’s contract scenario is completely different due to his age and resale worth
They have to worth Van Dijk and Salah in any other case they’d have tried to promote them. However possibly to not the identical extent the gamers worth themselves! There comes the stability.
There needs to be sufficient goal sufficient pondering within the room to sq. the circle.
If Salah continues to be motivated by aggressive soccer, Liverpool can battle to maintain him. If he is solely fascinated about how a lot cash he needs to be paid, Liverpool are going to lose.