Reports that Liverpool is yet to find common ground in contract talks with Mohamed Salah, Trent Alexander-Arnold and Virgil van Dijk have, unsurprisingly, not gone down well with Liverpool’s supporters.
All three players are into the final nine months of their contracts at Anfield, and as things stand will be able to negotiate with foreign clubs from January 1 ahead of potentially leaving Liverpool for free next summer.
The Times says that Liverpool remains at an impasse with Van Dijk, Alexander-Arnold and Salah, and that the decision to open talks with Ibrahima Konate and Jarell Quansah over contract extensions was partly motivated by a desire to avoid a repeat of the situation the club finds itself in with arguably its three most important players.
Plenty of Liverpool fans have been hammering the club’s FSG owners on social media over the current situation regarding arguably Liverpool’s three most important players.
One said. “Put it plainly, if FSG fail to retain Trent, Virgil and Salah, even if just one leaves, FSG must go. There is no debate. The badge and the club are way too big for FSG, John Henry and Richard Hughes. All this should’ve been done pre-season. We can’t lose any of them.
Another mentioned Dynasty Equity’s minority investment in the club, which took place last year. “They told us that selling a portion of Liverpool FC to Dynasty Equity worth around £164 million would help us with cash flow issues. So why the hell can’t Liverpool sign a DM and renew Salah, Van Dijk, and Trent? Excuses, excuses. #FSGOUT.
FSG has had plenty of critics since taking over Liverpool in 2010 but Jurgen Klopp wasn’t one of them during his time at Anfield, as he praised the club’s owners shortly before his departure at the end of last season.
I think you could buy into it but (people say) ‘they didn’t back him enough’ and stuff like that but I never saw it that way,” Klopp said.
I don’t know if they could have done more but I don’t think so because we had these discussions and I never had them in public.“I didn’t want to bring this feeling to the outside world that we are not united.
If we had an argument it was internal and on the outside we say it’s our way and that is how we do it. I don’t know any other way.“If it would help to invite the public into the discussions I would try but it doesn’t help.
If my son asked me for 50 euros and I only had 25 to give, what can I do? Besides just give him the 25. I really thought for us that I understood that it was our way, the Liverpool way.
