Dominik Szoboszlai Signs New Five-Year Contract with Liverpool

Dominik Szoboszlai leans into Liverpool’s future with a new five-year contract and a target as big as the club’s history: bringing the Champions League back to Anfield.

The Hungarian playmaker, who arrived from RB Leipzig in 2023 and has since grown into one of the Premier League’s standout midfielders, has committed his peak years to the club, extending his deal to 2031. It ends any lingering speculation over his future and plants him firmly at the centre of Liverpool’s next era.

He has already made 147 appearances in red, scored 28 goals and was voted Liverpool’s player of the season by supporters earlier this summer. That recognition, from a fanbase that has seen its share of elite midfielders, underlines how quickly he has become a reference point for this team.

But Szoboszlai is not remotely satisfied.

“There’s always more to come. I’m never happy,” he said after signing. “I’m happy with myself but I think I can do even better. I think that’s why I’m sitting here, because that pushed me since I was a kid: that it was never enough. And I’m thinking the same now.”

Those are not the words of a player content with domestic medals and individual awards. He has already lifted the Premier League and the Carabao Cup with Liverpool, yet his gaze is fixed well beyond England’s borders.

“When I signed, I said I want to win everything. That didn’t change for a little moment either,” he added. “It stayed the same: I want to win everything that is possible in this country, also let’s say the Champions League. I’m ready to go for it.”

The ambition is bold. The context is harsh.

Liverpool’s last Champions League campaign ended in brutal fashion, a 4-0 aggregate defeat to Paris Saint-Germain in the quarter-finals that exposed the gap between where the club wanted to be and where it actually stood. The season as a whole drifted into frustration, ending trophyless in 2025/26 and sharpening the sense that something had to change.

Something has. Almost everything, in fact.

Andoni Iraola has arrived as the new manager, tasked with reshaping a side that has lost three pillars of recent success. Mohamed Salah, Andy Robertson and Ibrahima Konaté have all left as free agents, stripping the dressing room of experience, goals and leadership in one hit. For a club that has grown used to continuity, this is a hard reset.

In that landscape, Szoboszlai’s renewal is more than a contract extension. It is a statement of intent and a stabilising anchor.

His presence, his age profile, his influence on the pitch – all of it matters more now. Liverpool are entering another season of transition, and the Hungarian is no longer just a marquee signing. He is one of the men expected to carry the standard.

“I want to set the example. I want to be an example also for everyone, as much as I can,” he said, leaning into that responsibility rather than shying away from it.

He did not hide how much the moment meant to him either. Extending at Liverpool, at this stage of his career, sits right at the top of his personal milestones.

“It’s maybe my biggest day,” he admitted. “There are a couple in front of it – probably when I signed for Liverpool the first one and when I got my baby, of course. But in my football career, I can say this is in the top three.”

While the club locks down its midfield leader, the rebuild continues around him.

Centre-back Jeremy Jacquet has arrived from Rennes and winger Victor Munoz from Osasuna, early pieces in Iraola’s new puzzle. They add depth and potential, but they do not answer the obvious question yet: who replaces Salah’s goals and Robertson’s relentless drive on the left?

Liverpool have not found those successors so far, and the clock is ticking towards the end of the transfer window. The expectation is clear – the final weeks of the market will be busy, and possibly decisive.

Through all of that churn, one thing is now fixed. In a summer of upheaval, Liverpool know exactly who will be driving their ambitions from midfield, and exactly what he wants.

Szoboszlai has nailed his colours to the mast. The Premier League is not enough. Domestic cups are not enough. For him, and for a club trying to reassert itself among Europe’s elite, the question is blunt: