What Richard Hughes has said on Van Dijk, Salah and Alexander-Arnold talks – Liverpool FC [Video]

With calls for Richard Hughes to step in and address Liverpool’s ongoing contract situation, the sporting director’s comments from July could be telling.

There is not only a frustration around Liverpool’s failure to tie up new deals for Virgil van Dijk, Mohamed Salah and Trent Alexander-Arnold so far, but also the lack of dialogue with fans.

Hughes, the club’s new sporting director, held a press conference alongside Arne Slot at the start of July but, six months on, that remains his only public address.

That day at the AXA Training Centre saw Hughes asked about the situation around contracts, with it known at the time that Van Dijk, Salah and Alexander-Arnold had 12 months remaining.

And the 45-year-old gave a similar answer to that which Slot has throughout the campaign, saying: “Contractual situations, I don’t think would be fair for me to talk about.

“I think these are private matters between clubs and players.

“The only concern …