Liverpool won't be losing Mohamed Salah at the end of the season and the expectation is that Virgil van Dijk will be sticking around too.

When Van Dijk succeeded Jordan Henderson as club captain in the summer of 2023 and there was a reshuffle in the leadership group at Anfield under Jurgen Klopp, Alexander-Arnold was promoted to the second-in-command position.

He had long made his ambition of wearing the captain's armband clear.

Alongside Van Dijk and Alexander-Arnold, there is also Salah, Andy Robertson and Alisson Becker.

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Of those players in the leadership group specifically, Robertson, who captains his national team, Scotland, would be an obvious pick to replace Alexander-Arnold in the event that he was to leave

And with his future sorted out, Salah can put himself properly in the conversation.

"Honestly, I was very disappointed," Salah once told the Spanish news outlet AS, expressing his frustration at being overlooked for the captaincy for a Champions League game against Midtjylland in December 2020

Given there is no chance of Salah finding himself in a position, he might just get the armband a little more often.