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Mohamed Salah and Virgil van Dijk are set to see their contracts expire(Image: Catherine Ivill - AMA/Getty Images)

Moneyball has served John W Henry well down the years.

Since 2010, the 75-year-old billionaire has instilled the philosophy on football and has been achieving great things at Liverpool - another legendary ball club that had a great history but deeply uncertain future before Henry’s Fenway Sports Group saved them from going bust.

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Liverpool have been back at the pinnacle of football for the last seven seasons - and are on the threshold of winning their second Premier League title and equalling Manchester United ’s record of being English champions for the 21st time.



But, in what has become THE contract saga of the season, they are faced with the prospect of losing three of the greatest players of this, or any other, Anfield generation.

Mohamed Salah, Virgil van Dijk and Trent Alexander-Arnold are free to walk away for nothing in the summer.

And the fact that Liverpool have allowed this perfect storm to build with such intensity isn’t a good look for a club that prides itself on getting these things right.

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But Salah is 33 in June, a month before Van Dijk celebrates his 34th birthday.

Ten years ago, Liverpool allowed the £100,000-a-week wage demands of Raheem Sterling to leak out - and it still didn’t prevent the England winger from getting his wish to join Manchester City.

It did lead, however, to Sterling becoming a figure of hate on the Kop.

Liverpool have been careful not to go down the same route of trying to use the power of public opinion to crank up the pressure on their rebel trio.

Trent Alexander-Arnold, Mohamed Salah and Virgil van Dijk could potentially leave Liverpool at the end of the season(Image: Getty Images)

But just look at the reaction last week when it was revealed that Real Madrid believe they have an agreement in place to sign Alexander-Arnold.
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