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By Tom Gott Liverpool have confirmed that both Thiago Alcantara and Joel Matip will leave Anfield when their contracts expire this summer. The Reds are braced for a major restructuring as they prepare to replace long-serving manager Jurgen Klopp with Dutchman Arne Slot, who will now have to make do without both Thiago and Matip, who are targets for Steven Gerrard’s Al Ettifaq. “Before he even came to Liverpool I believed that if you really love football it would make a lot of sense if you watched Thiago Alcantara play,” Klopp said as he confirmed the Spaniard’s departure. “Technically, he is s…