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The 35-year-old remains the Reds' most important defender, but he is now into the final 12 months of his current contract.Szoboszlai has been backed as the player to lead it by former Reds and England goalkeeper David James.Speaking to Grosvenor Sport, James said of the Hungary national team skipper: "He has definitely got the potential to be a future Liverpool captain.“I mean, the Virgil van Dijk one is interesting because I was trying to do the maths in my head. I think with Ali and Virgil, they are the only two over 30 at the moment, along with Endo.“But there's part of it where you think, if one of those leaves, does the other one leave?

Because then you become the very senior player in a changing room.“But with regards to Dom, one of my favourite players, of course, many Liverpool fans will have him as their favourite player.“Iraola has only signed for a couple of years, and I know Pep (Guardiola) only used to sign a two-year deal and he ended up staying at (Manchester) City for 10 years, didn't he?“So, there's a part of it where you think, if things go well with Liverpool over these next two years, Iraola might stay there longer and therefore someone like Dominik would be that mainstay throughout his tenure at Liverpool.“We saw some amazing things from Dom last season, and we also saw him playing in a position which wasn't suited to getting the best out of what he was capable of."Dominik Szoboszlai has signed a new contract at Liverpool(Image: Getty Images)Today08:21 BSTKlopp closes in on next jobFormer Liverpool boss Jurgen Klopp has revealed that he will soon take over from Julian Nagelsmann as Germany manage."Nothing has been finalised yet," Klopp said on Magenta TV during their coverage of the World Cup final. When the time comes, we'll make the announcement ourselves."Jurgen Klopp is set to join Germany after agreeing an exit from Red Bull(Image: (Photo by Nicolò Campo/LightRocket via Getty Images))Today08:21 BSTShearer backs Rayan moveAlan Shearer believes Liverpool need to make "two or three" big signings this summer - and should be in the running for in-demand Bournemouth youngster Rayan."Liverpool are going to have to make two or three big signings and that would start them off nicely," Shearer said."They were pretty awful last year, weren't they, in terms of where they wanted to be.

So Rayan obviously worked with Iraola last year and he's clearly going on to big things. That would be a big one for Liverpool."READ THE FULL STORY HERE.Rayan was part of Brazil's World Cup squad(Image: Rob Newell - CameraSport via Getty Images)