Liverpool have a £131m problem – but Bayern Munich have shown how to resolve it

Liverpool have a £131m problem – but Bayern Munich have shown how to resolve it

For many, Liverpool could potentially be tasked with replacing the irreplaceable this summer. As long as new contracts for Virgil van Dijk, Mohamed Salah and Trent Alexander-Arnold remain unsigned, they edge ever nearer to walking away as free agents.

The prospect of losing all three is an unthinkable one for a club whose charge towards a second league title in five years has been powered largely by the efforts of the trio. But as April creeps ever closer, a resolution seemingly remains some distance away.

Replacing all three, from a wage bill perspective, is at least doable. Salah is the highest-paid player of all time at around the £350,000-a-week mark, which is a sum that can even soar past the £400,000 barrier due to incentivised targets around goals.

The weekly sum earned by Van Dijk is less clear, although speculation places the Liverpool captain as a player who picks up between £200,000 and £220,000 every week. Alexander-Arnold is thought to be slightly further back in the pay scale but undoubtedly still one of the highest earners.

For a club whose wage bill now stands at £378m, according to UEFA’s latest European Club Finance and Investment Landscape study, released earlier this month, the absence of Salah, Van Dijk and Alexander-Arnold on the balance sheet would be a significant boost from a purely financial perspective.

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