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The former Liverpool and Chelsea player warned that the contract situations could make for an especially busy window:

"Liverpool will be thinking that Trent Alexander-Arnold is going to leave, and I think that winning the league is a nice way for Mo Salah to go out," Cole told Paddy Power.

"Virgil van Dijk might stay, but you just don’t know.

"A club like Liverpool don’t let these contracts down to the last six months without accepting that they need to go, and they’ll refresh the squad.

There will be provisions in place for new players coming in.

"If Trent, Salah and van Dijk leave, they’ll need at least five players coming through the door.

You can’t replace like-for like, and they’ll need to strengthen in other areas."

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More importantly, it would be left trying to replicate the impact of three of its most important players, a burden that would need to be spread across multiple signings.

Even if Liverpool anointed three players as the individual heirs to each of Salah, Van Dijk, and Alexander-Arnold, only making two "extra" signings on top of that would go down as fairly unambitious

Again, Slot has hardly made any transfers so far, and this looks like the prime window for him to do so.

Having said that, it's important to remember that existing Liverpool squad is already excellent: it looks as thought it is about to win the league
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