Liverpool are still sweating over the futures of their three players out of contract at the end of the season – but they also have some players who could be in the same boat this time next year.

Liverpool are travelling to PSV Eindhoven without the bulk of their first-team squad after deciding to rest a number of big-hitters. Alisson, Trent Alexander-Arnold, Virgil van Dijk, Ibrahima ...

We are measuring ourselves by the darkest hours because those are the moments that reveal character ... options available to Liverpool while singling out one player he believes isn't properly ...

Each forms part of a bigger picture. Liverpool now seem to have the most balanced squad in Europe; perhaps the best compiled, too. Which feels all the odder as they had a summer of inactivity ...

Liverpool will be hoping to extend their lead ... It's more the load you're aware of if a player is out for five or six weeks and then playing him every three days. That's, in our opinion, a ...