Liverpool manager Arne Slot has confirmed the club will need to offload players this summer in order to finance new arrivals, following their Champions League exit at the hands of Paris Saint-Germain.The Reds suffered a comprehensive 4-0 aggregate defeat to the French champions, with Tuesday night's 2-0 home loss sealing a disappointing end to their European campaign.The result ensures Liverpool's season will conclude without silverware, a stark contrast to their title triumph under Slot just twelve months ago.With domestic league football now their sole focus, the club sits fifth in the Premier League with six matches remaining.Mohamed Salah and Andy Robertson will both depart Anfield this summer as free agents, bringing an end to nine years of service for each player.The Egyptian forward's exit was announced last month, whilst Scottish left-back Robertson confirmed his own farewell last week.Robertson is understood to be in advanced discussions with Tottenham regarding a move, dependent upon Spurs maintaining their top-flight status.Their departures follow the loss of Trent Alexander-Arnold, who joined Real Madrid on a free transfer when his contract expired last summer.Slot acknowledged the significance of these exits, telling Prime Video: "Now we are losing Mo and Andy Robertson on a free transfer as we lost Trent."The Liverpool boss emphasised that the club's financial model necessitates player sales before new acquisitions can be made."Much has been said that the club is in a transition. The club has sold eight to 10 players to make money to sign five or so very talented players. We have to sell to buy," Slot told Amazon Prime.Despite last summer's record-breaking 450 million outlay, which brought Florian Wirtz, Alexander Isak, Jeremie Frimpong and Milos Kerkez to Merseyside, the Dutchman remains optimistic about what lies ahead."As I said many times, the future looks very good, especially if we can sign players after good players leaving this summer," he added.Former England captain Wayne Rooney, working as a pundit for Amazon, took issue with Slot's characterisation of the situation."I think you're talking about rebuilds... they were champions last season," Rooney remarked. "You shouldn't be talking about a rebuild when you've just won the Premier League."Questions persist over the futures of several first-team players, with Ibrahima Konate's contract expiring this summer, though reports suggest the centre-back may agree fresh terms.Curtis Jones and Alexis Mac Allister have both been linked with potential moves away from Merseyside.Slot himself faces scrutiny over his position, though the club's ownership are expected to grant him another season.Our Standards: The GB News Editorial Charter

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Cavemen hunted turtles but not for food, new research suggests.Scientists say that shells of reptiles caught by children may have been used as ladles or digging devices by early humans over 100,000 years ago.Careful cleaning of fragments found at the Neumark-Nord archaeological site in Germany indicates that pond turtle shells were used as small containers or scoop-like implements, news agency SWNS reported.SCIENTISTS SHATTER TIMELINE OF HUMAN FIRE-MAKING WITH 400,000-YEAR-OLD DISCOVERY IN ENGLANDAn international research team examined pieces of turtle shell dating back some 125,000 years discovered at the dig in what is now the Saxony-Anhalt region of Germany.Using methods including high-resolution 3D scanning, researchers found that many of the 92 fragments bear cut marks on their inner surfaces, indicating that the turtles were carefully butchered by Neanderthals with limbs detached, internal organs removed and shells thoroughly cleaned.Study leader Professor Sabine Gaudzinski-Windheuser said, "Our data provide the first evidence that Neanderthals hunted and processed turtles north of the Alps, beyond the Mediterranean region."However, the team believe the turtles were not used as a food source.CLICK HERE TO SIGN UP FOR OUR LIFESTYLE NEWSLETTERProf Gaudzinski-Windheuser of the Institute for Ancient Studies at Johannes Gutenberg University (JGU) in Mainz said, "We can virtually rule this out, given the abundance of remains [of] large, high-yield prey animals at this site. There was in all likelihood a complete caloric surplus," as SWNS noted.A total of more than 100,000 animal bones or bone fragments have already been recovered at Neumark-Nord, including numerous bones from deer, cattle and horses, as well as from the largest land mammals of the time the European straight-tusked elephant, which could weigh more than 10 tons.CLICK HERE FOR MORE LIFESTYLE STORIESThe research team reported last year that Neanderthals operated a kind of "factory" at the site, systematically extracting fat from the bones of large mammals.Gaudzinski-Windheuser said that "pond turtles have a comparatively low nutritional value," weighing roughly 2.2 pounds."However, they are relatively easy to catch and may therefore have been hunted by children. Their shells may then have been processed into tools."TEST YOURSELF WITH OUR LATEST LIFESTYLE QUIZShe said it was also possible they were hunted for their taste or for an assumed medicinal value a suggestion supported by findings from studies of later Indigenous peoples.Prof Gaudzinski-Windheuser added, "Our current results shed new light on the ecological flexibility and complex survival strategies of Neanderthals, which went far beyond simple caloric maximization."The new study was published in the journal Scientific Reports. It's the latest in a series of ongoing scientific analyses of material from the former open-cast lignite mine at Neumark-Nord.

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