HELLO AND GOODBUY

VVD all set to welcome back Salah ... hopefully

- BY ANDY DUNN

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

"Two weeks in a row? No," laughed the frontman.

Fair enough. But as he happily breezed past, his captain Virgil van Dijk 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.

Boss 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 had scored in both halves to give Liverpool a win over a wasteful Brighton.