As Liverpool and Arne Slot battle through their remaining five fixtures in pursuit of Champions League qualification next season, a significant rebuilding process off the pitch looms with both Mohamed Salah and Andy Robertson set to depart. The Reds will say goodbye to their Premier League and Champions League-winning stalwarts at the end of the campaign when their contracts come to an end.
Salah's exit arrives one year into his two-year deal after the player's representatives and the club reached a mutual agreement to go their separate ways. The Egyptian brings down the curtain on a trophy-laden nine years on Merseyside, having almost single-handedly guided Liverpool to a second top-flight title in five years last season.
The Reds fought hard to retain Salah in recent years following the rise of Saudi Arabian football, which attracted a wave of European talent.
Reports indicate that Tottenham Hotspur are in advanced negotiations with Robertson after their attempts in January proved unsuccessful. The Scotland captain looks set to become the latest high-profile name to leave Anfield on a free transfer, continuing a pattern of departures that has cost Liverpool dearly in potential transfer revenue.
A further notable exit could also be on the cards this summer, with Ibrahima Konate's future at the club remaining unresolved. The France international will be free to leave as a free agent should both parties fail to reach an agreement on a contract extension.
Real Madrid and Paris Saint-Germain have been consistently linked with a transfer for the 26-year-old, while there have been contradictory reports regarding Konate's future, it has been suggested that the central defender could sign an extension on Merseyside.
Transfermarkt utilises its data to determine market valuations of players, and from the period of the Liverpool contingents' respective transfers, the Reds have forfeited substantial fees.
Salah's forthcoming exit will see him depart 12 months following his Player of the Season-winning campaign. Transfermarkt figures indicate that the Liverpool star is valued in the vicinity of £26million, while Robertson is estimated around £8.7million.
Trent Alexander-Arnold's departure is amongst the most discussed transfers in recent memory after the Liverpool academy product left the club for Real Madrid last season. The full back was one of three, alongside Virgil van Dijk and Salah, whose contracts were due to expire at the conclusion of their title-winning season.
The England international allowed his contract at Anfield to run down in a widely-publicised dispute. Los Blancos paid £10m to release the full-back from his contract early and secure his services at the club in time for the Club World Cup in North America.
The fee represented a loss of approximately £55m, with Alexander-Arnold's estimated worth at the time of his exit standing at around £65m. Roberto Firmino, Naby Keita, James Milner, Alex Oxlade-Chamberlain and Georginio Wijnaldum are amongst those to have departed on a free transfer over the past five years, amounting to nearly £150million of talent leaving for nothing in total.
Firmino brought his celebrated Anfield chapter to a close to a rousing send-off as he left Merseyside. The Brazilian, aged 31 at the time, departed without a transfer fee after his contract was not extended before joining the Saudi Pro League exodus, leaving with a valuation of around £15.7million.
Meanwhile, an injury-plagued five-year spell for Keita saw him head back to Germany, while Wijnaldum's departure from Liverpool proved rather contentious, as he subsequently revealed his sense of feeling 'unloved' before moving to PSG on a free, at a point when his market value stood at roughly £26m.
He said: "There was a moment when I didn't feel loved and appreciated. Not my teammates, not the people at Melwood [training ground].
"From them I know, I can say they all love me and I love them. It was not from that side. More the other side." He added: "I have to say also there was social media. When it went bad, I was the player who they blamed, that I wanted to leave.
"Every day in training and in the games, I gave everything I had to bring it to a good end because, during the years, Liverpool meant so much to me and because of the way the fans in the stadium were treating me.
"My feeling was that the fans in the stadium and the fans on social media were two different kinds. The fans in the stadium always supported me. Even when they came back [after the COVID-19 break], already knowing that I was going to leave, they still supported me and, in the end, they gave me a great farewell.
"On social media, if we lost, I was the one who got the blame. There was a moment when I was like: 'Wow. If they only knew what I was doing to stay fit and play every game.' Other players might have said: 'OK, I am not fit.' You get players in their last year who are like: 'I'm not playing because it is a risk.' I did the opposite."
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