I've told him I want him to STAY

HIS time, in the area where players occasionally have a post-match chat with the media, Mohamed Salah was not for stopping.

- By ANDY DUNN

“Two weeks in a row? No,” laughed Salah.Fair enough. But as he happily breezed past, his captain - as he always does - was talking and wondering out loud if one of the club's greatest-ever players would be stopping in a mixed zone in a Liverpool shirt again.

Arne Slot said normal relations had been restored and pointed out that other players had done a lap of Anfield to thank the supporters after Hugo Ekitike’s first and second half goals had given Liverpool a win over a very wasteful Brighton. But no other player appeared to have tears in his eyes.

No other player was quite so dramatic. No other player lingered as long as Salah did. And if you expected Virgil van Dijk to emphatically dispel any idea that Salah might have played his final game for Liverpool, you were mistaken.