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Arne Slot insists he and sporting director Richard Hughes are assessing every position at Liverpool ahead of the summer transfer window.

But the Reds boss reiterated a lot of the recruitment work will depend on the futures of Virgil van Dijk, Trent Alexander-Arnold and Mohamed Salah, whose contracts all expire at the end of the campaign.

An injury to Diogo Jota against Chelsea on October 20 meant the Portugal international went four months without a Premier League start prior to his run-out against former club Wolves last week and the No.20 has featured for just 199 of the last 1530 Premier League minutes due to fitness concerns.

Darwin Nunez has failed to nail down a spot as Slot's first-choice striker in Jota's absence with Luis Diaz often preferred to operate as a makeshift centre-forward in recent months and the Uruguay international has just four goals in the league, with half of them coming in stoppage time against Brentford last month in a 2-0 win.

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Nunez was guilty of missing a huge opportunity in Wednesday night's 2-2 draw at Aston Villa when he side-footed over the bar in front of an empty net from six yards out after Dominik Szoboszlai had squared the ball and taken out goalkeeper Emi Martinez.

Slot said on Thursday he was unhappy with how Nunez reacted to that setback and questioned his work-rate levels and while the head coach stopped short of confirming he was in the market for a new striker this summer, the Liverpool boss conceded all options are being explored.

"We are looking at every single position and we are looking at the team," Slot said.

"And I think we've said this many times last season, or last summer, we didn't do a lot [in the summer window] because we - Richard, me and all the other people involved - just wanted to know how these players were working with me, the different manager.

"Now we have a very good idea about that, and I think it's clear to you that I'm not going to tell you which positions we prefer.

But it is clear that we've assessed the squad, we've assessed what we think where we can improve, and that's where we try to go for in the summer."

Much of what is possible, however, will centre around the respective contract situations of Van Dijk, Salah and Alexander-Arnold, who can all walk away from Anfield as free agents at the end of the campaign.

Slot added: "But if you're OK with it, it's quite an important two or three months to go.

Only one time when Liverpool won [the Premier League], it was 25 points [clear], but that's not normal in a football season, except for France, because in France it's always like this with Paris Saint-Germain.

But almost every other league, it's tight till the end."


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