Jamie Carragher swept into the Mo Salah dispute like a witchfinder general cleansing the Middle Ages of demons and sin. Football’s foremost contract vigilante is incandescent at the nerve of Salah to place himself above Liverpool FC.

To paraphrase the Anfield shop steward, Salah was nothing before he came to Liverpool, let’s be clear about that. He was known as the fella who failed at Chelsea. Liverpool made him what he is, the Egyptian King. How dare he question the manager, how dare he put his interests before those of the club , the custodian of which is Arne Slot?

Welcome to the 21st Century, Jamie, a landscape in which football is not only a sport but premium entertainment, a space where everybody has a value and where star power cracks the whip. And by the way, Salah might poin

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