I told you, Liverpool fans – keeping hold of Salah was a big mistake

Some of us saw the decline coming.

Alright, I’ll admit it. When I said, to great Scouse scorn, that Liverpool would live to regret not accepting a £200m offer for Mohamed Salah at the end of the 2023-24 season that I foresaw an earlier deterioration than we are witnessing now.

But here we are. Having again rejected eyewatering Saudi Arabian advances and given the Egyptian a structure-busting new contract in April, Liverpool let fan pressure and romanticism take over and have clung onto a player who has passed his sell-by date.

Despite what the most optimistic Liverpool supporters will tell you, this is no blip. Salah hasn’t come down with a severe bout of the yips. Salah has had dips in form in the past, like any forward, but this is different. The player with a near inconceivable Premi