Carragher defends Liverpool board over contract trio | OneFootball

Jamie Carragher has defended the Liverpool board despite the uncertain contract situations of Mohamed Salah, Virgil van Dijk and Trent Alexander-Arnold.

All three players are out of contract in the summer, with reports this week that Alexander-Arnold has decided to join Real Madrid at the end of the season. There has been no updates on potential extensions for Salah or Van Dijk, who will be free to leave the Reds when the campaign concludes.

On the latest episode of Sky Sports’ Stick to Football podcast, former Manchester United defender Gary Neville criticised the Liverpool management for allowing the situation to unfold.

Addressing Carragher, he said: “Liverpool are the only club who are allowed to run their players contract down to zero, but they are still doing okay?

“Three of the best players in the world have got contracts running out, but Liverpool are doing a great job managing that? I’m sorry, I can’t accept that.”

In a heated exchange, Carragher defended Liverpool and owners Fenway Sports Group, blaming a power ‘vacuum’ at the top of the club for recent events: “No, please, no, no, no. I’ve explained this. I’ve explained this. Stop it. I’ve explained this a million times. I’ve explained this a million times

“In a normal circumstance, yes, I get it. The hierarchy at Liverpool who were a bit part of Jurgen Klopp being really successful, Jurgen Klopp won more stuff, got more power, those people moved away. So basically Jurgen Klopp has got that much power. Everybody has left. [Former sporting director] Michael Edwards, not just Edwards, everybody has left. The guy who comes after him, who was Michael Edwards’ number two, was in the job for six months and walked away.”

“So what is that telling you what is going on at the top end of the club? That basically there is a vacuum there. They needed to bring in a guy from Germany who did the job in Germany for a lot of middle-range clubs. Klopp’s agent knew him. He’s out of work, he basically came in for the summer for Liverpool to sign the players that they signed. And don’t forget Klopp then, a few months later, announces he’s leaving.

“So the players, the older players Van Dijk and Salah probably would have been left because they’re getting older anyway. But the Trent situation, he has definitely, as we all would, used that situation to his own advantage. ‘How can I sign? I don’t know what the new manager is like, how successful we’ll be in the future’. I get that.

“When we’re talking about the actual club, [current sporting director] Richard Hughes and the people in there now, they’ve been left that.”

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