Arne Slot has revealed that he'll hold showdown talks with Mo Salah to determine whether he's played his last game for Liverpool . Salah, 33, hinted that Saturday's game at home to Brighton could be his final appearance for the Reds during an explosive interview last weekend.

The Egyptian revealed that he'd invited his mum to Anfield so that she could witness his potential farewell. Next week, Salah will jet off to the Africa Cup of Nations and won't return until January. By then, the winter transfer window will've opened.

Salah's comments, accusing Liverpool throwing him 'under the bus', prompted Slot to drop him from their squad ahead of Tuesday's crucial Champions League clash with Inter Milan . The Reds snatched a late 1-0 victory at San Siro in a glimpse of life without their No.11.

Previewing the Brighton game at Liverpool's AXA Training Complex in Kirkby, Salah's future was the main talking point. "I will have a conversation with him this morning and the outcome of that conversation will determine how it looks tomorrow," Slot said.

"What I need is a conversation with him and the next time I speak about Mo should be with him and not in here. There's not much more I can say. I speak to him today and the outcome determines how things will look tomorrow."

Asked if it was Salah's lack of defensive output that first resulted in him dropping to the bench, the Liverpool manager replied: "You can try in multiple ways but I just said the next time I speak about him should be with him. I think there's been a lot of conversations since the last week between his reps and ours."

After he was benched for the third game running at Leeds last Saturday, Salah spoke to reporters in the mixed zone and vented his frustration. "I can't believe... I'm sitting on the bench for 90 minutes," the Egypt captain bemoaned. The third time on the bench, I think for the first time in my career.

"I'm very, very disappointed. I have done so much for this club down the years and especially last season. Now I'm sitting on the bench and I don't know why.

"It seems like the club has thrown me under the bus. That is how I am feeling. I think it is very clear that someone wanted me to get all of the blame."

Having refused to specify who that person was, Salah added: "I said many times before that I had a good relationship with the manager and all of a sudden, we don't have any relationship. I don't know why, but it seems to me, how I see it, that someone doesn't want me in the club."

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