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Contract situation "a mess"

Former Liverpool defender Stephen Warnock believes that the club will have a plan for every possible outcome surrounding the contract situations of Mohamed Salah, Virgil van Dijk and Trent Alexander-Arnold.

He told Anfield Index: “It doesn’t seem like that is what is happening though.

It feels like the players are having a difficulty negotiating what they actually want to end up with.

“From a club’s point of view, it’s far from ideal.

Van Dijk has been very clear to say that people shouldn’t believe everything that they read because I don’t think he even knows what is going to happen!

“If Liverpool were to lose all three players, it would be disastrous, because suddenly you’re having to pay a large amount of money to replace a centre-back, a goalscorer and your right-back.

“There’s probably more planning in place should Trent leave because of his age and the links to Real Madrid.

It’s a concern, but there’ll be a plan – there’s always a plan.”