Liverpool trio Virgil van Dijk, Trent Alexander-Arnold and Mohamed Salah are all out-of-contract this summer
A report by De Telegraaf reporter Marcel van der Kraan in the Netherlands claims Liverpool’s hierarchy will ‘break the bank’ to keep 33-year-old Van Dijk at Anfield, with his current contract set to expire next summer.
While Van Dijk has made it clear that he is open to signing a new deal with Liverpool, the club’s decision-makers have a long history of showing a reluctance to hand star players a new contract when they are over the age of 30.
Now decision time is imminent over Van Dijk’s future, with the Netherlands captain permitted to speak to European clubs over a free transfer next summer since the start of…