Liverpool's most popular adopted son Mohamed Salah is facing an uncertain future and new manager Arne Slot finds himself stuck in the middle

Arne Slot has tried to keep a lid on the excitement that has been building at Liverpool, insisting there is still a long way to go in the Premier League title race.

One day soon we will have to stop talking about Arne Slot’s Liverpool in relation to Jürgen Klopp’s, but sometimes the comparisons are unavoidable. Here was the steel of Klopp’s best days, the familiar game-settling pedigree of Mohamed Salah and the ability to recover from perilous positions.