Let’s enjoy Salah now wherever he ends up

MO SALAH should receive a great reception from the two thousand fans inside Anfield for today’s game at West Brom. If anyone gives him stick because of an interview he gave to Spanish media, they are out of order.

All Salah did was fail to commit the rest of his career to Liverpool or close the door completely on a move to Barcelona or Real Madrid.

As a fan, you’d want him to nail his colours to the mast and shoot down any transfer speculation immediately but if you think about it from Salah’s point of view, it is understandable.

He didn’t grow up in England, his family may want to live in a warmer climate or different culture. I’d have played forever at Liverpool if I’d been a guaranteed pick like Salah but these days it’s normal for players to leave themselves options.

I always think it is best to judge players by their workrate and performances on the pitch and you cannot fault Salah this season or at any time since he joined the club. He is in brilliant goalscoring form and we should focus on that rather than what may or may not happen in the future.

At the very earliest, Salah will leave in the summer, and even that is far from clear. So let’s enjoy him while we can and hope he continues his purple patch so that Liverpool can win the Premier League again and reclaim the Champions League.

He was only being honest in the interview so don’t let it change your view of him as a person.

It’s clear he doesn’t like being substituted and was cross that he was overlooked as captain for the last European game in Denmark. Good. For me, it shows someone who has pride and passion. It tells you someone who cares. I don’t see that as a fault.

SAM Allardyce takes West Brom to Anfield today. He was the last manager to win a PL game at Anfield and has won more points than any other manager against Klopp’s Liverpool. No manager’s teams have scored more goals.