“This was supposed to be a week of celebration for Mohamed Salah and Liverpool. The announcement in March that this would be the Egyptian’s final season on Merseyside teed up this Sunday’s game against Brentford at Anfield to be a golden goodbye to one of the club’s — and the Premier League’s — greatest ever players. Instead, another public outburst from Salah last weekend — this time, the most thinly veiled of attacks on Slot’s style of play — has created an awkward question for the head coach and club executives: how do they handle the forward’s farewell now? …”
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