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However, the Reds manager emphasized that much of the recruitment strategy will hinge on the futures of Virgil van Dijk, Trent Alexander-Arnold and Mohamed Salah, all of whom have contracts expiring at the end of the season.

An injury to Diogo Jota during a match against Chelsea on October 20 resulted in the Portuguese international going four months without a Premier League start before his appearance against former club Wolves last week.

Due to fitness issues, Jota has only played 199 out of the last 1530 Premier League minutes.

Darwin Nunez has struggled to secure his place as Slot's first-choice striker in Jota's absence, with Luis Diaz often chosen to fill in as a makeshift centre-forward in recent months.

"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."

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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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