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Former Liverpool CEO Peter Moore at the Soccerex Miami in November 2024(Image: Soccerex Miami)

Former Liverpool CEO Peter Moore has claimed club owners Fenway Sports Group are "working feverishly" to secure Mohamed Salah, Trent Alexander-Arnold and Virgil van Dijk to new contracts at Anfield.

All three have been integral to a side who have won 15 of Arne Slot's first 17 games as head coach and the Reds return to action this weekend at Southampton five points clear in the Premier League and in top spot of the revamped Champions League.

Despite the evident progress on the pitch, however, Salah, Van Dijk and Alexander-Arnold are all able to speak to clubs outside of England about a pre-contract agreement from January 1, with a little over six months left on the current terms for all three.



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Real Madrid continue to be intensely linked with Alexander-Arnold and Salah was the subject of an offer from the Saudi Pro League in August of 2023, when Liverpool rejected a bid worth up to £150m from champions Al-Ittihad.

Speaking at Soccerex in Miami, Moore, who was Reds chief executive for three years between 2017 and 2020, says Liverpool owners FSG are determined to secure all three to extended contracts as the impasse drags on.

"It remains to be seen but I am old enough to remember Kevin Keegan going to Hamburg and thinking the world was collapsing around us," Moore said.

You know, so life goes on.

"I don't know what is going to happen but it is Trent, it's Mo, it's Virgil and it's hard to imagine any of those leaving Liverpool.

"Ownership, I know ownership (FSG) is working feverishly to get deals done with all three and whether it is all three, two of the three, one of three or none of the three, I don't know.

"You look at those players and what I do like is they all seem dedicated right now and there is nobody, particularly those three, that has taken a game off for some reason.

But [the] ownership knew this was an opportunity for us to take one player and buy two world-class players for the money Barcelona was paying for Philippe and it worked out brilliantly as a result.

"But also [it's about] making sure you build a squad.

Fingers crossed, it's November."

On the start Slot has made since succeeding Jurgen Klopp in the summer, Moore said: "It's too early to say but to the point of when you think about when Jurgen announces he is leaving and everyone says: 'This is the end, Liverpool needs to go in transition, it's going to be a tough two or three seasons'.

"[The question was] who are they going to get?

Arne Slot, who many of us knew but I think the great majority had never paid attention to.

"So what you have is this concept that we had when I was there and all the way back to (Bill) Shanky, it's called 'the Liverpool Way'.

And the way you relate to it is the consistency, it used to be the Boot Room, Shankly, Ronnie Moran, Bob Paisley, Joe Fagan, Ruben Bennett, Roy Evans and these guys all became managers or caretaker managers.

"So what you have is the Liverpool Way, which is who we are, what we stand for, who our fans are, what they expect from us, the power of Anfield, all of that comes together and we are blessed as a football club to have that consistency.

"And I think looking at Liverpool now, 15 wins from 17 games, and looking a little different to Jurgen's style of football, a little bit more control, a defence that is just not giving up goals and an attack that is fluid like it was in the great Mane, Firmino, Salah era.
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