‘Baffling that fans are still unsure whether the game is a farewell’published at 09:51 GMT
Liverpool v Brighton (Sat, 15:00 GMT)
Aadam Patel
BBC Sport Liverpool Reporter
In a way, it is baffling that Liverpool fans are still unsure whether the game at Anfield tomorrow will be a farewell as Mohamed Salah suggested last Saturday.
But Thursday was a day off for the Liverpool players and Salah didn’t travel to Milan so it makes sense that the crunch talks between Arne Slot and Salah will take place this morning at the Training Centre.
The key line from Slot was his insistence that he has “no reasons to not want (Mohamed Salah) to stay”.
That suggests the door is very much open for Salah to play again for Liverpool, whether that’s tomorrow against Brighton or after the Africa Cup of Nations.
Asked by BBC Sport whether he still had a relationship with Salah after the Egyptian had said otherwise, Slot laughed and insisted that it would be ‘useless’ for him to answer.
He repeatedly said that the next time he should speak about Salah should be with the 33-year-old and that was indicative of what a gruelling week it has been for Liverpool. For Slot, understandably there’s no point inflaming the situation further.
On Tuesday, the understanding was that Salah was excluded from the squad for a short period of time.
But even if it’s unlikely, Slot implied that there is still a possibility that Salah may be back in for tomorrow and that alone indicates that there may be a happy ending to a truly ugly state of affairs.
