Liverpool's Premier League defeat on Wednesday, at the hands of Everton, looks to have scuppered the Reds' hopes of winning the league title. But John Roycroft thinks that Liverpool's hopes of silverware may  have come unstuck when Jurgen Klopp announced his retirement from the club so early in the season.  

Liverpool's Mohamed Salah laid out his clearest public demand for a new contract in a controversial magazine interview while away with Egypt at AFCON. But as John Roycroft points out, both negotiating parties have hard red lines that neither side is willing to cross.