David Lynch has taken one ‘optimistic’ from a current replace on the contract sagas surrounding Mo Salah, Virgil van Dijk and Trent Alexander-Arnold.
In a current report for The Occasions, dependable journalist Paul Joyce indicated that talks with the three Liverpool stars over potential new offers at Anfield have reached ‘an deadlock’.
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Nevertheless, based on Lynch, that’s not essentially a unfavourable factor, as he informed Anfield Agenda: “I feel it was perceived negatively that the phrase deadlock was used, however I nonetheless suppose there’s a optimistic to be taken there.
“We all know most likely 4, 5 weeks in the past that talks hadn’t even began significantly with Salah and Van Dijk. That had moved nowhere. Now we’re at someplace the place we’re saying, it’s at an deadlock, however that backwards and forwards negotiation is occurring.
“I feel it’s massively encouraging and means that actions are being made in the direction of preserving them.”
FSG and Richard Hughes have to act quick
Lynch makes a legitimate level in stating that some followers may need taken one phrase out of context from a complete report and that it’s factor that membership chiefs are at the very least in dialogue with the gamers about potential new offers.
All three of Salah, Trent and Van Dijk’s contracts expire on the finish of this season. Given how necessary they’re to the Reds, it’s a fear that issues haven’t been sorted out up to now in that regard.
The fitting-back has always been linked with a transfer to Actual Madrid, whereas the Egyptian King has seemingly hinted that this could possibly be his final season on the membership. In the meantime, the captain has reportedly informed shut pals that his precedence is to increase his keep at Anfield – we’d be over the moon if that have been to occur.
Whereas Lynch is taking an optimistic view from Joyce’s report, one factor stays clear – membership house owners FSG and sporting director Richard Hughes have to type out the state of affairs quick.
Given how instrumental the trio have been to Liverpool’s success lately, shedding any of them could be an enormous blow for Arne Slot and the supporters. Dropping all three of them on free transfers in the identical summer season is a state of affairs which supplies us nightmares, however there’s nonetheless time to make sure that such a dreaded prospect doesn’t come to move.
