Fairytales SHOULD have happy ending

TALKS BETWEEN SALAH AND SLOT MAY DETERMINE IF CLUB LEGEND IS TO SEE OUT HIS REDS DAYS WITH THE PERFECT SEND OFF...OR IF THIS IS WHERE KING VACATES THRONE

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THE outcome of Friday's face-to-face talks between Arne Slot and Mohamed Salah will have huge ramifications for the rest of Liverpool's season and beyond.

Salah, whose insubordination at Leeds United on Saturday evening has been well documented, greeted his head coach and teammates at the AXA Training Centre on Friday after they returned from a successful trip to Milan, where they had inflicted a first Champions League defeat at home for Inter in three years on Tuesday night.

It was an encouraging sign that Liverpool were able to secure such a high-profile victory without the output of their talismanic Egyptian, given he is now set for Africa Cup of Nations duty after Saturday's visit from Brighton & Hove at Anfield.

Whether Salah is involved or not in that will be decided by the conversations that are had behind the scenes at the club's £50m Kirkby training base.