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Jamie Carragher has put forth a concerning theory on Liverpool’s endangered contract duo.

As March draws to a close, Liverpool FC still faces significant uncertainty regarding the futures of three key players.

Mohamed Salah, Virgil van Dijk, and Trent Alexander-Arnold all remain without contract extensions despite their current deals expiring this summer.

Liverpool’s commanding 15-point lead at the top of the Premier League is a testament to the exceptional contributions of these players.

Salah continues to produce goals and assists at an extraordinary rate, Van Dijk remains the backbone of the defense, and Alexander-Arnold is entering what many consider the prime years of his career.

Instead of celebrating their pivotal roles in the team’s success, fans are left speculating about potential exits?

While the club’s data-driven approach to contract decisions is logical from a business standpoint, the timing raises questions.

These matters should have been resolved well before the critical stages of a title-challenging campaign.

Though the players have remained professional throughout, the unresolved negotiations inevitably cast a shadow of uncertainty over an otherwise stellar season.

And now speaking  It’s Called Soccer!, Carragher has suggested that the double-cup eliminating week could influence whether FSG and the club offer what the pair are looking for:

“Do you know what worries me, not from their point of view, more from the club’s point of view?

Van Dijk and Salah have almost come out and said they want to stay,” he said

“My feeling and worry is, it kept feeling like Salah and Van Dijk were winning the PR battle when Liverpool were top of the league, winning every game in the Champions League, talking about trebles, going to do this, going to do that.

He explained how the players may not hold as many bargaining chips as they might have held earlier in the season as a result of the poor performances from the team in a key part of the season:

“In the last week, I hope this isn’t the case, but maybe the people at the club are going ‘Is this is a little sign of things to come in the future.

Is Salah being off form or is this the future of Salah?’.

“If they don’t win as much, are they in a stronger bargaining position or are the club right to say, ‘Hang on, we think you’re only worth this’?”

“You’ve won the league, we haven’t won the the Champions League, you haven’t won the Ballon d’Or.

I was actually thinking this means the club are maybe not going to shift the goalposts at all or maybe only slightly,” Carragher reasoned.

“Imagine Liverpool win the league, the Champions League, Salah’s the Ballon d’Or?

It’s ‘give him what he wants’, all that again, so I think the club will look at that and think their offer’s right.”

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