Low blow to Henderson, Liverpool confirmed to have new captain

While Liverpool are currently focusing much of their attention on having an excellent summer transfer window, things have started to change within the Liverpool squad so that new recruits and existing players can understand as quickly as possible the direction that manager Jürgen Klopp will be taking ahead of next season, with some of those changes upsetting one Jordan Henderson, who looks set to be the player with the most changes.

While the addition of Alexis Mac Allister and possibly a couple of other midfielders will eventually take the England leader's place in the starting line-up, there is talk that Henderson could see his captaincy status fall in the coming weeks, with Mohamed Salah and Virgil van Dijk likely to take his place from now on.

It wouldn't be at all strange if players so representative of the team end up wearing the armband so characteristic of the club's great legends, and while it's true that Henderson can still do the job even if he doesn't get many minutes, Jürgen Klopp's squad could do with a vice-captain to help them with certain on-field duties, with both Van Dijk and possibly team-mate Thiago Alcantara being tipped for the role.

Salah is the one who can demote Hendo

Although there is talk of vice captains and second men in charge of the group on the pitch, the reality is that in the Reds there are multiple leaders capable of taking charge of the position even without the armband or the position, but the truth is that in recent years it has been Salah who with his goals and performances has managed to make the Reds a more than protagonist group in Europe, deserving even if only symbolically that armband that identifies him as the leader of a group that is going through a phase of restructuring.