Liverpool's Salah question isn't as simple as it seems

IF Mohamed Salah's intention was to pile the pressure on Liverpool with his post-match comments at Old Trafford at the weekend, he could scarcely have been more effective.

- Dan ra Kilpatrick

Salah told Sky Sports "it's my last year in the club" and claimed "nobody" at Liverpool has discussed a new contract with him.

Salah's current deal is up at the end of the season and, as it stands, he would be free to sign a pre-contract agreement with an overseas club from January 1 and end his eight-year association with Liverpool as a free agent next summer - despite still being among the best players in the world.

Salah was speaking on Sunday after scoring and assisting both of Luis Diaz's goals, as Liverpool humiliated their fiercest rivals Manchester United to earn a landmark win for new head coach Arne Slot.

According to well-informed reports, Salah is eager to stay at Liverpool if a suitable new deal is on the table, surely leaving Slot, new sporting director Richard Hughes and Michael Edwards, chief executive of football for the club's owners, with the simplest of decisions.

Or perhaps not.