Liverpool trio’s contract situation amplifies every miffed moment this season | Jonathan Wilson

Slot, it should be said, seemed entirely unconcerned by the incident, the Liverpool manager explaining that he understood that players wanted to play 90 minutes and that Alexander-Arnold had been taken off in both games so far purely to ease his return to action after his exertions with England during the Euros. It was probably nothing, but the doubt over his contract means that nothing can ever be entirely nothing.