Contract-related issues may heap misery on the red half of Merseyside next summer, but there’s more than a fighting chance that, should that happen, it will be in the wake of trophy-clinching success.
Liverpool have got off to a flyer under Arne Slot this season, five points clear at the top of the Premier League and first in the Champions League group phase too. There’s so much excitement crackling around Anfield right now, with fans giddy at the thought of crowning a new era with the highest of triumphs.
Should any or all of Trent Alexander-Arnold, Mohamed Salah and Virgil van Dijk truly be playing out their final campaign at Liverpool, it will be a big blow without a doubt. But, FSG, though they certainly have their shortcomings, have placed the Reds in a providential position.
Everything points toward a cemented place at the forefront of domestic and European football over the coming years, and with youngsters such as Ben Doak breaking through, such pointers might be on the money.
Ben Doak’s prosperous future
Currently plying his football out on loan with Middlesbrough in the Championship, Doak is honing his craft away from Slot’s squad, but it looks like the 18-year-old made the right call, for he’s starring under Michael Carrick and now impressing for the Scotland Men’s team too.Having notched assists in both of his recent Championship matches – two in the latter – after scoring his first professional goal earlier in the campaign, Doak is indeed riding the crest of a wave at the moment, with former Scotland manager Craig Levein even claiming: “this kid could be a world-class player.”
Effusive words. But not without substance. The short-framed Doak’s pace and power, his swivelling low centre of gravity, allow him to bypass stern opposition down the right flank with ease.
