First Mohamed Salah, now Virgil van Dijk.
It is great news for the club and the Premier League that one of the most emblematic players of the division is staying.
For so long, there has been great uncertainty about Van Dijk and Salah’s futures in Liverpool since their previous contracts would expire at the end of the season.
The perspective is much more pink now, although the future of the star out of the Trent Alexander-Arnold contract, who has held conversations with Real Madrid, is still very uncertain.
In the end, the numbers made sense to Liverpool. Replace Salah and Van Dijk, for example, it would probably cost £ 200 million in transfer rates, much less salaries. Identifying those players would have been a risky task.
Both players are between 30 and 30 years old, but none have shown signs of deceleration, so keep Salah and Van Dijk, with salaries similar to what they were previously, seems the most economical decision, particularly when you look at their performances this season.
Van Dijk’s permanence will decrease the need for Liverpool to sign a new central defender this summer, although strengthening in that field area will probably depend on how conversations with Ibrahima Konate take over a new agreement.
The International of France is entering the last 12 months of its contract and has not yet reached an agreement with Liverpool on an extension.
Among the centrals that Liverpool has seen are Dean Huijsen by Bournemouth and Marc Guehi by Crystal Palace.
If an agreement with Konate is not reached, then Liverpool may have to make a decision about his future this summer to avoid the possibility that the central defender goes to a free transfer in 2026.
