Mo Salah is showing he’s still got what it requires on top level with Liverpool, so why has his agreement been permitted to end up being a legend?

I enjoy that they made it about Casemiro.

Dom Szoboszlai and Ryan Gravenberch pushing and filling out and making life hell for them and all they wish to do is speak about Casemiro. I understood they’d quit on the video game since that minute.

Scapegoating is constantly fascinating. It normally shows up with deflection. From it being a tight video game with Manchester United seeing more of the ball to ‘is this the end of him’. No talk of Liverpool or of United’s methodical failure to develop an identity and credo. Just go to the knackered gamer and make it about him. I enjoyed that.

I enjoy going under the radar.

The realities sound severe for them.

Man United couldn’t cope with Liverpool. Furthermore, they couldn’t cope with Liverpool at Old Trafford.

That’s a huge offer. It’s a dreadful location to go, the typical jokes aside, as its splendour is really remarkable. It’s a location which puts you on the back foot instantly. The last thing you wish to do is go to the home of your most significant competitors and be placed on the back foot.

It’s easy to understand why we’ve baulked there so typically in the past. We did it two times last season. What’s more, we did it two times to among their poorest sides. That’s the power of the location.

Not Sunday, however. As with his very first 2 video games, Arne Slot’s Liverpool were everything about control and trust. It was the equivalent of putting your hand on the forehead of a smaller sized man who’s taking empty swings at you with none landing. Have a corner, develop some pressure, do your finest. We’ll simply take all this far from you in a minute.

It need to have been 4-0 and Liverpool need to sit on top of the league, however Dom, who might have played his finest video game in a year, got his legs incorrect and fluffed his lines. Unprofessional? That’s severe. I simply believe he didn’t thought what was occurring and stressed.

No matter. Second will provide for a fortnight. Make it about Manchester City rather simply as they made it about Casemiro. Just let Arne do his work and leave us out of it.

The just genuine shock followed the video game throughout the interviews and Mo Salah’s remark about this being his last year. After a substantial win there it seemed like having your Christmas provides removed you on Boxing Day early morning, however if anything it may be a good idea.

He plainly wishes to talk with the club or rather, he desires the club to talk with him. He didn’t state anything about wishing to leave. That’s what I drew from it. That which it wasn’t a slip of the tongue. Not numerous gamers respond to a concern about their hairstyle with a conversation about an agreement.

The club will have heard that and – what, with it being the worldwide break – you’d hope they’re taking a seat with Mo’s representative and a calculator quickly. You’d hope, anyhow.

I imply, why hasn’t it been done currently?

Well, he’s 32 and the club would make a lots of money if they let him go. Yeah, terrific.

FSG are notoriously risk-averse and don’t wish to be lumped into knocking out a huge costly agreement to a gamer who may become Casemiro in 3 months.

They’d likewise be morons to even consider it.

The issue with late football professions is that you can never ever inform when it goes. Gary Neville typically speaks about a West Brom video game when he got legged frequently and stopped.

I’ve simply read Paul Merson’s completely sincere autobiography and he understood when the Championship and not the Premier League had actually become his level. Then he understood when even that was excessive.

Does Mo Salah appear like he’s anywhere near dropping his requirements? Does he appear like he’s stopped taking pleasure in The Reds? Does he appear like he’s happy with Gordon Hodgson being Liverpool’s 3rd all-time objective scorer?

He’s simply strolled off the pitch at Old Trafford with his 3rd objective of the season and 2 helps while chuckling his arse off.

He doesn’t appear like he’s going to constrain up strolling down the stairs at any minute.

If you’ve got those gamers, you don’t mess around with their agreements. You don’t mess about with Kenny Dalglish and Ian Rush.

Mo Salah is this generation’s Kenny Dalglish and Ian Rush. That’s the greatest compliment I can pay him. An outright gold legend.

You don’t end his profession here believing you’ll simply get another one. It’d resemble changing Shakespeare with Dan Brown because, technically, he’s in the exact same video game.

Milk every second of Mo Salah, Liverpool. Milk every nanosecond, since every club on the planet would desire him.

We need to too.

Don’t mess this up.

Karl

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