A look at the latest new contracts at LFC.
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00:00Starting with Liverpool, we've discussed their contract situation and a number of key players are still here and there with a contract at the club.
00:13What's the latest you can tell us? A few players are set to sign new deals. Who are they and how close are we to seeing some of the bigger names sign a new deal as well?
00:24It looks like Ibohima Kanate and Gerald Quantzer are close to penning fresh terms. Are those the players that Liverpool fans firstly wanted to sign contracts?
00:37No, because when you've got Virgil van Dijk, Mo Salah and Trent Alexander-Arnold all out of contracts at the end of the season, those would be sometimes the priority.
00:48I think the nature of the deals with Kanate and Quantzer, they were maybe easier to do. Certainly with Gerald Quantzer, he's 21, he hasn't played a lot this season but he had a fantastic breakthrough campaign last term.
01:04For a 21-year-old, where else would you want to go? There's always going to be rewards with a new deal. Ibohima Kanate has had a really good start to the season.
01:16A bit of an up-and-down campaign last term. Ends out of the team in JĂŒrgen Klopp's final few games and has injury problems but I think so far this campaign has shown just what an asset he can be.
01:32He's very much been Virgil van Dijk's partner in crime in central defence and the big challenge for him is to stay fit now. He's been playing two games a week to be fair and that was a big question mark around him.
01:47The ones that Liverpool fans want to get teams on are Virgil van Dijk, Mo Salah and Trent Alexander-Arnold. They are more difficult for obvious reasons with van Dijk and Salah. They're both in their 30s and Liverpool may be hesitant to give them long-term deals or the sort of wages they might be looking for.
02:08Trent Alexander-Arnold will obviously want a contract that reflects his stature in the Liverpool team. He's vice-captain and I think he's just turned 26 so very much in his peak years and of course there's those Real Madrid links that continue to linger.
02:27So that one is maybe a little bit more niche for different reasons and yeah that's a big challenge with the sporting director Richard Hughes. He knows how to harness slots so he'll keep getting asked about those contract situations throughout the campaign.
02:44But you've got to take the positives that Liverpool are tying down Canarsie and Kwanzaa and maybe the next one they might look at is Luis Diaz. Potentially he's got two and a half years left on his deal if Liverpool are following that policy.