Reliable journalist shares MASSIVE Salah, Van Dijk and Alexander-Arnold contract update

There has been some movement from Liverpool on the contracts front as of late, with reports emerging that they are looking to extend both Luis Diaz and Ibrahima Konaté.

No one can argue with these decisions. Diaz and Konaté have both had brilliant starts to the season. 

Diaz holds five goals in the opening seven Premier League games - already storming towards his English league-high total of eight - whilst Konaté has been central to a defence that has only conceded two goals thus far.

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Diaz is 27 and his contract expires at the end of the 2026-27 season. Konaté, meanwhile, is 25 and his expires at the end of the 2025-26 season. On current form, both are no-brainer situations.

Yet these are not the contracts Liverpool fans want to be hearing about at present. Whilst these extensions are welcome, the pressing matter is that of Mo Salah, Trent Alexander-Arnold and Virgil van Dijk, all of whose contracts expire at the end of this current season.

What is the Salah, Trent, Van Dijk update?

The Times’ Paul Joyce is reporting that the club are at a “continued impasse” with the trio, and that while talks have been ongoing, they “have not found common ground”.

This is a development that would concern any Koppite. There was no expectation that these deals were going to be easy, particularly with Trent facing interest from Real Madrid and Salah reportedly facing a Cristiano Ronaldo-beating contract from Saudi Arabia.

But combined with reports of contract extensions for other players suggests that the club are seeing an unwillingness from the player’s side to relent on their demands.

Joyce also writes that new sporting director Richard Hughes “inherited” the situation and deals with other squad members are “partly motivated by a desire to prevent a similar scenario from materialising”. 

This suggests that Hughes is cutting a frustrated figure of late, concerned about the possibility of not getting a deal done.

A new deal for Quansah

The report also says that the club are close to agreeing a new long-term deal with centre-back Jarell Quansah. The 21-year old Englishman is signed up until 2026 but, again, the club are trying to be proactive.

Quansah made 33 appearances in all competitions last season but has only registered two so far this campaign. Head coach Arne Slot replaced him with Konaté at half-time on the opening day of the season and has stuck with that. Quansah scored an unfortunate own goal against West Ham in the League Cup on his second start this year.