Two players leave Liverpool after hearing that Cristiano Ronaldo will not arrive

Although Cristiano Ronaldo is living his last days as an elite footballer, many elements of European football still see it as an illusion to be a teammate of the Portuguese and thus be able to share for at least a few months dressing room with one of the legends of modern football, presenting that situation in Liverpool who unfortunately could not finalize his transfer in this winter market.

The fact that Ronaldo will not be joining Liverpool is undoubtedly another failure for the English institution in the transfer market, with some players getting tired of the team's situation and wanting him to leave, knowing that just as the arrival of the Portuguese player fell apart, perhaps in a few months Jude Bellingham will also reject the Reds, leaving Klopp with a weakened squad and without options to compete with the leaders not only in the Premier League but also in the Champions League.

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With no security in the transfer market, both Naby Keita and Alex Oxlade-Chamberlain do not plan to stay on after their contracts expire. While it is true that their level has not been the best it has been for a long time, these two players do not plan to remain at a leading European institution, as with Cristiano Ronaldo on their side, both midfielders saw a necessary improvement in attack.

Not that the Reds' midfield or defence won't need some fine-tuning very soon, but with what was shown in the last few weeks of competition leading up to the World Cup in Qatar, Jurgen Klopp's players proved to be more than solid in the first two blocks of the pitch, with only a few problems in attack being solved by the attacking trident of Darwin Nunez, Mohamed Salah and Roberto Firmino.}

<strong>Keita and Chamberlain depart</strong>

If Keita and Chamberlain had half a foot out of Anfield, the bad decisions regarding the arrival of Ronaldo made it clear to them that Liverpool is not the leading team in Europe that everyone wants to be, betting better to end their relationship with the institution and look for other airs once they are free agents in the summer, with talk that teams in Italy and Germany would be willing to sign them and give them a second chance to transcend and be what they could never be at Anfield.