🗣 “Do you know what worries me, not from their point of view, more from the club’s point of view? Van Dijk and Salah have almost come out and said they want to stay.
🗣 “My feeling and worry is, it kept feeling like Salah and Van Dijk were winning the PR battle when Liverpool were top of the league, winning every game in the Champions League, talking about trebles, going to do this, going to do that.
🗣 “In the last week, I hope this isn’t the case, but maybe the people at the club are going ‘Is this is a little sign of things to come in the future? Is Salah being off form or is this the future of Salah?’. If they don’t win as much, are they in a stronger bargaining position or are the club right to say, ‘Hang on, we think you’re only worth this’?
🗣 “You’ve won the league, we haven’t won the the Champions League, you haven’t won the Ballon d’Or. I was actually thinking this means the club are maybe not going to shift the goalposts at all or maybe only slightly.
🗣 “Imagine Liverpool win the league, the Champions League, Salah’s the Ballon d’Or. It’s ‘give him what he wants’, all that again, so I think the club will look at that and think their offer’s right.”