Jürgen Klopp will be leaving Liverpool this summer and he won't be the only one. Many of his backroom team will be exiting with him, while the likes of Joël Matip, Thiago Alcântara and Adrián are all out of contract.
But when do the rest of the Liverpool first-team squad's deals run down? There are certainly some big decisions on the horizon. As has been well documented, Mohamed Salah, Virgil van Dijk and Trent Alexander-Arnold will all have 12 months left this summer should nothing change.
At that point, there is usually two outcomes: either the player signs a new deal to extend their stay, or they are sold to avoid their club losing them without receiving a transfer fee. That means there is an interesting period ahead.
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In 2026, Ibrahima Konaté, Andy Robertson and Caoimhín Kelleher are all set to be out of contract. Konaté is the youngest and should therefore be in line for an extension, despite his injury troubles. Kelleher, meanwhile, may yet have a decision to make on his long-term future as a definite number two to Alisson Becker at Anfield.
With Robertson, the Scot will be 32 by the time his contract runs down. There is therefore a legitimate question mark hanging over him in terms of whether he will be handed an extension.
The summer of 2027 (which is only three years away, despite it sounding like a distant time well into the future) will see Luis Díaz and Diogo Jota's current deals end. The pair of forwards will both be 30 by that point, which is the same age that Sadio Mané was when he left Anfield to move to Bayern Munich.
Also in 2027, the contracts of Curtis Jones and Harvey Elliott expire (though they will only be 26 and 24 respectively by then), plus Alisson (who will be 34) and Joe Gomez (who will be 29). Stefan Bajčetić and Conor Bradley will both get extensions, you would presume, but Wataru Endō (by that point 34) probably won't.
Dominik Szoboszlai, Alexis Mac Allister and Ryan Gravenberch, all signed last summer, were all tied down until 2028, while Darwin Núñez and Cody Gakpo are in the same position. All of those players are young enough to get another deal, and even if Liverpool decided to sell one or two of them, it would want to do so with a healthy contract signed to get the best deal in the transfer market.
Liverpool.com says: The first priority is those who are out of contract in 2025, and all three should get new deals. Losing Salah in the same summer of Klopp wouldn't be a good thing and Van Dijk and Alexander-Arnold seem like easier ones to get over the line. It could be a busy period in that regard for Michael Edwards and Richard Hughes.
