Liverpool ‘put four players up for sale’ including Alexis Mac Allister

Liverpool are prepared to sell four first-team players this summer including Alexis Mac Allister and Cody Gakpo, according to reports.

After winning the Premier League title last season, Arne Slot’s side have struggled for consistency this term and currently sit fifth in the table, 21 points behind leaders Arsenal.

Liverpool still have hope of winning silverware this season as they remain in the Champions League where they will play Paris Saint-Germain in the quarter-final next week, while they will meet Manchester City in the FA Cup quarter-final on Saturday.

According to The Sun, Liverpool have put plans in place for a ‘major summer clearout’ and are ready to sell four first-team regulars – Mac Allister, Gakpo, Joe Gomez and Federico Chiesa.

The report adds that Curtis Jones’ future is ‘uncertain’, while Andy Robertson is also set to leave after nine seasons at Anfield.

Liverpool could also lose Ibrahima Konate, whose contract with the club is due to expire this summer.

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Meanwhile, Mohamed Salah has confirmed that he will cut short the two-year contract he signed last season and will leave Liverpool at the end of the season.

Speaking about Salah’s exit this week, Slot said: ‘I knew, so it wasn’t new news to me, but I think it was very good to hear and see all the reactions of his team-mates, but also from everywhere around the world, for what he has done for this football club and for football in general.

‘I’ve mainly seen this as a fan, so watching football, seeing him playing at Liverpool, doing all these special things that he’s done for this club.

Of course, in the fixtures against [Manchester] City but in all the other fixtures as well.

He broke record after record after record.

‘Then I started working with him and already the first day I was impressed by his professionalism because as with any season, it starts with a test that shows how much they did in the off-season and he beat all of them.

He was the fittest player that came back, and I think that’s the ideal situation that you want as a manager: that your star player comes back as fit as he did.

‘He had nothing to prove, but for himself he had a lot to prove because Mo always thinks he has to prove something every three days.

That hunger never stops and that is something that I find most special about him.

‘So many good players around the world [and] he’s definitely one of them in the last 10 years, that everybody talks about being one of the best there is and was in the last 10 years.

‘To show that hunger every three days, that professionalism, that commitment to the club, to the team, to wanting to score again, always wanting to play – when you take him out three minutes before the end, he’s like, ‘Maybe I could have scored one extra!’ – that is what stands out for me.

‘Everything he’s done for the club, but the moment I started working with him I knew it after one day, let alone after a few weeks or months, that it isn’t a coincidence that he’s been so influential in the last 10 years in football.’
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