Next season sees Liverpool enter a new era following Jurgen Klopp's departure, as Arne Slot takes over from the German as the club's new manager.
The Dutchman will inherit a squad that finished third in the Premier League last campaign but must decide on some of the Reds' key players, whose contracts expire in 2025.
Mo Salah and Virgil van Dijk are both entering the final year of their deals and talking to AceOdds, former Liverpool striker Michael Owen says that the club has to keep them at the club if they continue to make a difference on the pitch.
He said: "It all depends on what terms and things like that, doesn't it. There’s always fans out there that are so desperate that say , ‘Just give them whatever they want, out there who a’ and I'm not a person who thinks that, of course. But you've got to keep the difference makers. You've got to find difference-makers.
"Liverpool have probably got three or four in their team that are the difference between, being a decent team and a great team. And every team is the same. There will be good players, great players, and then there's just the absolute elite, and Virgil Van Dijk is the absolute elite.
"Mo Salah in his position, is the absolute elite. If you take both of them out of the team, they're not going to win the league next year. They are that important. Unless you replace them obviously with top equal players. So, yes, I would very much like to see Mo Salah and Van Dijk continue.
"There's no sign of them ageing, apart from, obviously, we all age every single day. But there's no sign in their performance that they're ageing. Yeah, I would like to see Liverpool have both of those players for the foreseeable."
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