Mohamed Salah talking about his contract shows he wants to stay at Anfield - but notice the silence from Trent Alexander-Arnold
Liverpool's Mohamed Salah celebrates after scoring the second goal during the Premier League match between Liverpool FC and Manchester City FC at Anfield on Sunday. Photograph: John Powell/Liverpool FC via Getty Imagesstarted the season by winning nine of their first 10 games, the general response was “they haven’t played anyone yet”, Now theyhave won nine of the next 10 games – beating Chelsea, Leverkusen, Real Madrid and nowalong the way.
In the event, Liverpool smashed City from the first whistle and Cody Gakpo scored what proved to be the winner after just 12 minutes. In that period, the football was reminiscent of their best wins against City under Klopp. In the middle third of the game, City managed to establish a foothold and begin putting their passes together, but Liverpool showed composure and patience in defence to keep them at a safe distance, while continuing intermittently to shred them on the counter-attack.
Instead, Slot has got the team interested in what happens next in an unexpected way: by showing them how they can get even better. They’re not dwelling on yesterday because they feel excited about tomorrow. It feels like the team right now is in a sweet spot where the best qualities of the Klopp side, built for charging energy and directness, are developing new dimensions under the more patient and cerebral influence of Slot.
In his man-of-the-match interview afterwards, he suggested this might be the last time he played for Liverpool against City at Anfield – the latest in a series of remarks apparently designed to pressurise the club into offering him a new contract. So it’s hard to see another club at Liverpool’s level rushing to outbid them. There may well be clubs in Saudi Arabia who will pay more, but Salah won’t win the Champions League playing there. And he can surely still play for big money in Saudi Arabia after he is too old to be decisive at the top European level. A compromise deal to stay therefore seems the most likely outcome.
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