With two elite young midfielders through the door, a couple of Liverpool's more experienced figures are being linked with the exit door.
According to The Athletic, there's 'serious interest' in Thiago among Saudi Pro League clubs, with the Spaniard already rejecting one 'lucrative offer'.
Sky Sports' Melissa Reddy (via This is Anfield) adds that Liverpool would be willing to accept a 'suitable proposal' for the former Bayern Munich man, should he ask to leave.
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In addition, Reds legend Steven Gerrard is apparently keen to bring former teammate Jordan Henderson with him to the Gulf nation after taking over as the manager of Al-Ettifaq, although the Daily Mail now suggests the Liverpool captain won’t be making the move.
One player who won't be going anywhere, though, is Fabinho.
"I think if you're looking at those three, the amber [likelihood of leaving] would be Henderson, the green would be Thiago and the red would be Fabinho," journalist Neil Jones told Empire of the Kop.
Jones also labeled the Brazilian 'untouchable', and it's somewhat surprising to see Liverpool take such a firm stance on a player who struggled badly last season.
Jürgen Klopp publicly admitted that his number six was 'not at his best' (via liverpoolfc.com), but that was underplaying it — Fabinho looked like a shadow of his former self and would have lost his place altogether if Liverpool had a specialist alternative or Stefan Bajcetic was a little further on in his development.
Crucially, the 29-year-old, a ball-winning 'hoover' at his best (to quote Klopp), looked like he was in physical decline as opponents powered past him with ease. Often Fabinho had little recourse but to commit a foul, for he simply couldn't keep up.
Taking all this into consideration, there was a strong case for cashing in while he retained some value and then looking to the future by putting the funds towards a replacement.
Instead, Liverpool seems to be backing Fabinho to rediscover top form this season, and prove that last year was a mere blip rather than the beginning of a terminal drop-off.
You're reminded of comments from Klopp in March when he drew a parallel between the ex-Monaco man and Manchester United's Marcus Rashford ahead of the meeting of the arch-rivals at Anfield.
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"We spoke a second ago about Rashford," he said when asked about Fabinho's form (via LFC). "OK, it's a different position but things like this happen, you cannot explain it really, it's just there, it happens."
Klopp was referring to the turnaround in Rashford's form after a miserable 2021/22 campaign in which he scored just five goals in 32 appearances.
Last season, the Englishman exploded back into life by netting a career-best 30 goals in all competitions to go along with 11 assists.
During one particularly spectacular run from late December to early February, he bagged 17 goals in 19 matches, enough to earn him back-to-back Premier League Player of the Month awards. He was, predictably, named United's player of the year come the end of the campaign too.
Fabinho is, of course, a much different player, so any revival wouldn't grab the same kind of headlines. He's also four years older than Rashford, which made his form all the more worrying.
Klopp, though, seems to view last year's woes as a violent, inexplicable but not unprecedented fluctuation in form.
With Liverpool's midfield bolstered by the arrivals of Alexis Mac Allister and Dominik Szoboszlai and the introduction of Trent Alexander-Arnold, the German will hope to see a reinvigorated Fabinho in the coming months, his workload reduced by energetic assistants.
There appears to be a genuine belief that he can emulate Rashford by silencing his critics and returning to world-beating heights. Maybe we'll look back on 2022/23 as a head-scratching but short-lived aberration.