Should Dream Team bosses ditch Liverpool players for remainder of season?

FOR all intents and purposes, Liverpool’s season is over.

The Reds were firmly in the Premier League title race for the majority of the campaign but that’s become a two-horse race between Manchester City and Arsenal in recent weeks.

This coupled with their elimination from the Europa League at the hands of Atalanta means Jurgen Klopp’s farewell tour is set to end in anticlimactic fashion.

The German gaffer lifted the Carabao Cup back in February to ensure his final campaign at Anfield featured at least one crowning moment but Dream Team managers will have noticed that Liverpool’s 2023/24 is fizzling out.

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Liverpool assets have performed brilliantly again this season with seven of them having racked up 200+ points to date – Virgil van Dijk (£3.7m), Alexis Mac Allister (£4.5m), Trent Alexander-Arnold (£5.2m), Cody Gakpo (£4m), Luis Diaz (£4.5m), Darwin Nunez (£4.9m) and Mohamed Salah (£6.5m).

The latter is one of just six players to have celebrated a triple century of points this term.

But should gaffers ditch Klopp’s favourites for the remainder of the season?

Saturday’s 2-2 draw was further evidence that the well is running dry but the primary development came before kick-off when it was revealed that Salah and Nunez were dropped from the starting line-up.

Both of the popular forwards came off the bench to register one-point hauls with the Egyptian superstar sharing a frosty moment with Klopp on the touchline.

Salah is Dream Team’s sixth most-selected asset right now with an ownership of 32% but he’s likely to be among the most transferred-out players prior to Gameweek 34.

It’s early days but the top four most-ditched players so far this week are all Anfield residents: Salah, Van Dijk, Nunez and Diaz.

The collective dip in form is just one aspect for gaffers to consider; the schedule doesn’t favour Liverpool either.

Salah and company have just three fixtures left to fulfil this season whereas Manchester City, Manchester United, Chelsea, Tottenham and Aston Villa have five games each – the Villains might have six if they get past Olympiacos in the Europa Conference League semi-finals.

Of course, Liverpool assets still have the capacity to provide healthy returns across the remaining Gameweeks.

They’re due to plays Spurs, Villa and Wolves with the former and latter fixtures to take place at Anfield – Liverpool have earned more points at home than any other top-flight side this campaign.

Salah may have gone off the boil recently but his overall return of 24 goals and 13 assists speaks for itself.

While Alexander-Arnold averages 6.1 points-per-game this season, the highest rate among all defenders.

However, logic dictates that a switch to busier players will yield profits.

Ollie Watkins (£5m) is a very strong option for the final few Gameweeks of the season and Erling Haaland’s (£7m) return to the scoresheet will inevitably prompt a wave of transfers.

The in-form Alexander Isak (£4.5m) is another tempting alternative to Salah/Nunez – Newcastle have a double header coming up in Gameweek 35.

Many of the top gaffers will pivot from Liverpool to Man City this week.

Source: Soccer - thesun.co.uk