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Liverpool transfer list three players with nearly 500 combined appearances

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have made , and Kostas Tsimikas available for sale ahead of the summer transfer window, according to reports. Arne Slot is expected to make changes to his squad despite winning the Premier League at a canter. The Reds became champions at Anfield on Sunday.

Nunez came on for the final seven minutes and wasted a fine counter-attacking opportunity while Tsimikas was an unused substitute. The injured Gomez watched from the stands but joined in on the post-match celebrations. The trio have racked up nearly 500 Liverpool appearances between them - Gomez 241, Nunez 139 and Tsimikas 113 - but the suggest they won't be making too many more as Slot reshuffles his options.

Gomez is Liverpool's longest-serving player and has spent 10 years at the club. But his campaign has been heavily interrupted by injury and turning 28 next month, may want to move to a club where he is guaranteed more starts when fit.

Slot has relied upon Virgil van Dijk and Ibrahima Konate as his starting centre-half partnership this season but is pursuing a central defender this summer. Bournemouth's 20-year-old Dean Huijsen, who has a £50million release clause, is a target.

Gomez has previously been linked with Newcastle and Aston Villa, both of whom could have Champions League football next term. Tsimikas has only made seven Premier League starts this season despite Andy Robertson's decline in performance.

Robertson only turned 31 in March but the toll of eight years at the highest level has shown this term. Yet his experience is vital and he has still produced some excellent matches this term.

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As such, Tsimikas will be free to leave as Liverpool hunt for a younger player to succeed Robertson as the No.1 left-back. Huijsen's Bournemouth team-mate Milos Kerkez is the top target in the position for the newly-crowned champions.

Nunez is Liverpool's record signing having cost £85million and the Merseyside outfit rejected interest from Saudi Arabia in the January transfer window even though they could have recouped much of that fee. The Saudis have also shown interest in Luis Diaz and Diogo Jota.

The only player of those three attackers actively available is the wasteful Nunez, who appeared to delete a controversial tweet on Saturday which read: "No wonder I didn't play more, because the last game I started in the Premier League went well and suddenly..."

The Reds are understood to owe Benfica another £5m if he starts again in the Premier League. He is currently on 59 league and Champions League starts and 60 would allegedly trigger a clause in the deal that would see the Portuguese giants handsomely rewarded.

Liverpool want to sign a new centre-forward to replace Nunez with Eintracht Frankfurt's £80m-rated Hugo Ekitike and RB Leipzig striker Benjamin Sesko among those being looked at. Newcastle's Alexander Isak is admired but is likely to be too expensive.

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