They’re clearing using the Henderson situation to justify this to themselves. They’re trying to be clever and take the emotion out of it. Both of them are outliers though clearly. Salah is absolutely producing constantly. Van Dijk looks imperious as well. Take away the fact they might fall off a bit in the coming years but that’s ignoring the standards they’re setting and the examples they are making behind the scenes.
It’s catastrophically stupid to let them walk away. I don’t for one second think there’s some sort of stand off over wages either. I genuinely think the club are just not even addressing it with them.