Adebayo Akinfenwa has echoed the ideas of many Liverpool supporters in an open criticism of the membership over one matter which has lingered uncomfortably over Anfield for a while.
Each Reds fan might be acutely conscious that Mo Salah, Trent Alexander-Arnold and Virgil van Dijk are all into the ultimate eight months of their respective contracts, with no discernible signal of any of that essential trio penning new phrases imminently.
There’s been no scarcity of hypothesis about these gamers’ futures, with the previous two specifically being closely linked with strikes away from Merseyside.
Akinfenwa slams Liverpool’s dealing with of trio’s contracts
Talking on talkSPORT, ex-AFC Wimbledon striker and ardent Liverpool fan Akinfenwa criticised the Anfield hierarchy for permitting the contracts of three of the membership’s most essential gamers to get this near expiring.
When requested if he’s apprehensive that Salah, Trent and Van Dijk may all depart, the 42-year-old replied: “Must be, 100%. Whenever you discuss house owners and them being business-minded, simply on a enterprise entrance, how do you enable three of your franchise gamers to all run down [their contracts] on the identical time. I simply suppose it’s insane.”
Akinfenwa is true to be aghast
Akinfenwa is kind of proper to ask why Liverpool’s powerbrokers have slept on the contract conditions of three members of the Reds’ on-field management group, together with the present captain and vice-captain.
It’d be worrying if even a type of had been approaching the top of his deal with none indicators of a swift decision, so for that to be trebled factors to frankly mind-boggling negligence from the Anfield hierarchy.
Even permitting for the truth that there’s been quite a lot of upheaval behind the scenes by way of sporting administrators and coaches coming and going, the membership would’ve identified that Salah, Trent and Van Dijk had been all contracted to June 2025, a date which is quickly approaching.
It appears incomprehensible that Liverpool received’t safe a brand new deal for at the least certainly one of that trio by the top of this yr, after which potential suitors could be free to method the gamers a few pre-contract settlement, however the probabilities of us holding onto all three appear to decrease with every passing week.
The end result of these three contractual conditions may go a great distance in direction of shaping how Richard Hughes’ tenure as sporting director is ultimately judged.
