All those goals, all those records, all those Salah-framed moments that lifted Liverpool higher, torched beneath the stands at Elland Road. If these are to be the last days of Mohamed Salah in the Premier League, this is what people will remember, the full diva dump on Arne Slot.

It is impossible to see how both can survive. Indeed, that is the point. Salah has gone all in, playing the Egyptian King card, bringing the brand power of eight cosmic years down upon Slot’s head. He is now asking Liverpool’s owners to decide, Salah or Slot? And all it took was three games on the bench.

There is more to it than that, of course. Salah’s strop is just the latest development in an operatic unravelling that has managed to knock the Manchester United soap off its car-crash perch. Ultimately this is

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