Liverpool head coach Arne Slot has fired a warning to Arsenal and their Premier League title rivals as he played down the need for wholesale reinforcements in the summer.

The Reds need just six points to secure the top-flight crown and inflict fresh disappointment on , who have fallen marginally short in each of the last two seasons, with a third set to be on the horizon.

Virgil van Dijk and Mohamed Salah committed their futures at Anfield for an extra two years, after uncertainty surrounded the duo throughout the campaign with their initial contracts due to expire in the summer.

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The Dutch head coach says it is already a big summer with two key players remaining at the club, despite Real Madrid's interest in Trent Alexander-Arnold.

"[Van Dijk's contract] tells you that we want to keep our best players," Slot said. "The players that have played a great season for so many years in row.

"When we are able to keep them as free agents, it tells you the ambitions we have for the upcoming years. I’m really happy they both extended.

"Virgil is so important, defensively and offensively, in and around the dressing room. A great personality and a great football player. I think at Liverpool there is always a big summer and it is already a big summer now.

"Maybe the players don't follow everything what has been said in the media, me neither, but what I do know it was it was a big thing – 'can we hold onto them?' - and by already holding on to two it is already a big summer.

"Let's see what the rest of the summer will bring but it would be strange for me to say now I am not happy with the team we are having because I've said this for a year, we are happy with the team we are having. Maybe if we can keep that team it will already be a big summer."

He added: “We have showed the opposite (of standing still means going backwards) last season, because we didn't change anything and I don't think we went downwards.

"In general I agree, but there is also lots of study being done that the longer a team plays together the more success it has.

"I think the core of the team you want to keep as long as you can together, as long as they are performing in the best possible way.

"But it is also in general good to have some new energy in and around the place with one or two players, that I agree on.

"But it isn't really a necessity when you look at the quality we have and the quality of the season we have had because, again, we saw during the week how good a team Newcastle is.

"They are number three and that they played so well against us in the League Cup final is probably not a surprise any more.

"Paris Saint-Germain have been good, but Villa, number seven at the moment, showed they can win against Paris Saint-Germain. What a league we are in."