The January transfer window is a week away, and a huge positive update bodes well for Liverpool supporters wishing Salah and van Dijk to stay.

Hindsight is a wonderful thing. Judging by the rhetoric around Virgil van Dijk signing for Liverpool on this day in 2017, few expected the Netherlands defender to be a game-changing £75m signing. "A joke".

Liverpool are said to be "relaxed" about the contract situations of both Virgil van Dijk and Mohamed Salah, who are days away from entering the final six months of their respective contracts. The two stars remain among the finest around right now but are watching their current deals inch closer and closer to expiring,