We're firmly in the business end of the season now, and after this weekend, Liverpool can really start to look ahead to the summer.
Arne Slot can pick up his first piece of silverware since taking over from Jurgen Klopp when the Reds face Newcastle in the Carabao Cup final at Wembley on Sunday. With the Premier League title surely heading to Anfield as well, a double is well within Liverpool's sights.
A big summer lies in wait beyond that, with Slot potentially making some big changes to his squad. Plenty of names have already been touted as coming or going, with the biggest departure at this moment in time looking like Trent Alexander-Arnold.
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We all of course now about Real Madrid's interest in the Reds' vice-captain, and after seeing him limp off against Paris Saint-Germain on Tuesday, there were some fears that we may have seen him make his last appearance for his boyhood club. Slot though has since eased those worries.
"Trent is not available," Slot said during his press conference on Friday ahead of Sunday's final. "He will not be at the final but he is still to be assessed for how it is going to take. We do expect him back before the end of the season."
So, if Alexander-Arnold is to leave for the Bernabeu in the summer, it seems as though he will get the chance to bid a final farewell to the Liverpool fans. There are some players though that may have already played their final game for the Reds...
Vitezslav Jaros
We all know Alexander-Arnold, Virgil van Dijk and Mohamed Salah are out of contract at the end of the current season. What some fans might not realize though is that there is actually a fourth Liverpool player set to become a free agent in a few months.
Vitezslav Jaros is rather unfortunate to be the third-choice goalkeeper at Anfield behind Alisson Becker and Caoimhin Kelleher. There are first-choice goalkeepers elsewhere in the Premier League who would struggle to get a look-in if they moved to Liverpool.
The Czech international got his big chance earlier in the season when he was rather unexpectedly called from the bench to replace an injured Alisson at Crystal Palace, and he did himself proud as he ensured the Reds held on for a 1-0 win. He'd go on to make his first senior start for the club and help them get past Brighton in the Carabao Cup, so he's certainly deserving of a medal should Liverpool beat Newcastle at Wembley on Sunday.
That though is more than likely to have been his last appearance of the season, and possibly his last appearance for the club. His contract expires this summer, and with Liverpool shaking up its goalkeeping department with the addition of Giorgi Mamardashvili, Jaros may well be looking elsewhere to further his career.
Joe Gomez
The hamstring injury Joe Gomez picked up at West Ham in December was as cruel as they come. Having seemingly been surplus to requirements just a few months previously, the England international had stormed back into form in Ibrahima Konate's absence.
A recurrence of that hamstring problem reared its ugly head just 10 minutes into his comeback at Plymouth, and now there's every chance that Gomez may miss the rest of the season. There is still hope that he can return before the final day of the season in May, but if he's unable to, we might well have seen the last of him in a Liverpool shirt.
Gomez came close to leaving last summer, even going as far as being left out of the squad for the opening day at Ipswich. A move never materialized, but with Konate's partnership with Van Dijk only growing stronger, and Liverpool surely looking to strengthen its options at the back, Gomez's position looks more and more precarious.
You certainly wouldn't begrudge him the chance to go and get regular playing time elsewhere, although it would be a sad day for Liverpool fans to see such an integral part of the 2020 title win depart.
Tyler Morton
Like Gomez, Tyler Morton could well spend the remainder of the season out injured, having undergone shoulder surgery last month. If he does return before the end of the campaign, it's unlikely we'll see him get much, if any, action.
The midfielder's last appearance came in Liverpool's defeat to PSV Eindhoven in the last league phase game of the Champions League, when Slot made sweeping changes to his side after already securing a spot in the knockout stages.
Morton was linked with a move away from Anfield last summer, with Xabi Alonso's Bayer Leverkusen among those credited with an interest. Even in January, there were suggestions that a move to Middlesbrough could materialize, although Liverpool elected to keep hold of the 22-year-old.
It would be no surprise to see more interest in Morton this summer, and even less of a surprise if the midfielder decided he wanted to pursue a regular starting spot elsewhere.
Federico Chiesa
The signing of Federico Chiesa has not gone to plan. As much as he looked like a bargain from Juventus last summer, even that opportunistic transfer looks as though it might have been a bit of a waste.
Liverpool fans have barely seen Chiesa in action, with his 10 appearances so far constituting just three starts, and most of them just being cameos from the bench. It was telling that Slot didn't even turn to him when the Reds needed a goal against Paris Saint-Germain, instead throwing on Cody Gakpo just a day after he'd returned to training.
The Liverpool boss has suggested that the club's hectic schedule hasn't worked in Chiesa's favor, given he hasn't had much of opportunity to train alongside the first-choice players. Even with the calendar dying down now though, you can't imagine he'll be forcing his way into the side during these final 10 games.
Chiesa has been linked with a return to Italy, and if Liverpool can make a profit by offloading him in the summer, then it should seriously consider cutting its losses and selling up. His signing looked too good to turn down last summer, but it's perhaps now clear why he seemed to be such a bargain.
