Virgil van Dijk and Trent Alexander-Arnold had been each noticed in full package at Liverpool’s AXA Coaching Centre on Thursday, sparking hopes of recent contracts.
Van Dijk and Alexander-Arnold are within the closing yr of their contracts at Liverpool together with Mohamed Salah, with their futures an ongoing concern for followers.
And when the captain and vice-captain had been pictured in full package on the AXA Coaching Centre on Thursday, it raised hopes the membership had been planning a double announcement.
Sadly that’s not the case, with Liverpool as a substitute holding their annual staff photograph on the coaching floor in Kirkby.
The whole squad became their full package after breakfast with Arne Slot and his workers within the morning, earlier than heading out onto the out of doors pitch.
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Membership photographers John and Andrew Powell can have carried out the staff photograph, which incorporates each first-team participant together with Slot and his assistants.
It was taken a month after the brand new season bought underway as a result of late closure of the summer time switch window, with a variety of adjustments to the squad between opening day in opposition to Ipswich and deadline day on August 30.
A type of was the signing of Federico Chiesa, who joined his new teammates on the transportable bleachers in entrance of the principle constructing.
As of but there have been no concrete developments reported over new contracts for Van Dijk, Alexander-Arnold or Salah.
Alexander-Arnold was once more linked with Actual Madrid over the weekend, although Van Dijk and Salah have publicly instructed they need to keep past their present offers.
Salah’s agent, Ramy Abbas Issa, took to Twitter final week to disclaim current studies over his consumer’s intentions, with the Liverpool Echo having claimed the Egyptian is “determined” to signal a brand new contract.
“FYI – all these ‘journalists’ who indicate having ‘inside info’ about Mohamed’s future are making claims/posts based mostly on completely nothing. Simply click-whoring,” Issa wrote.
“‘Sources near Mohamed’ don’t exist. This publish is admittedly simply to inform you that they don’t know.”
