New deals 'would trump any glee a signing would have brought'

How can you be irritated by Liverpool's lack of transfer activity when we finished top of the Champions League table, are six points clear with a game in hand in the Premier League and still in both cups?

If you are a sensible Liverpool fan, you can't.

Liverpool will definitely do business in the summer, but there really is not much to moan about.

A new left-back is needed, but Andy Robertson and Kostas Tsimikas in rotation is not a travesty.

A new holding midfielder would be good to support Ryan Gravenberch, but the Dutchman has been the best number six in Europe this season and has played almost every minute.

Another centre-back could bolster the squad, but nobody would start ahead of Virgil van Dijk and Ibrahima Konate anyway.

Darwin Nunez is not a long-term solution at centre-forward, but we can cash in at the end of the season and sign a new striker then instead.

There is no rush when it is all working and sporting director Richard Hughes probably considers the contract renewals of Trent Alexander-Arnold, Van Dijk and Mohamed Salah the priority.

If we announce one of those in February, it would trump any glee a new signing would have brought.

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