Colin Sheridan: End of the affair shows Salah that love is conditional

The Anfield legend piled huge pressure on his manager with an explosive interview on Saturday night.

BENCHED: Mohamed Salah has sensationally claimed he has been "thrown under the bus" and has no relationship with Arne Slot as the Liverpool star revealed next week's match against Brighton could be his last game at Anfield. Pic: Peter Byrne/PA Wire.

"It all ends in tears, anyway" - Jack Kerouac, The Dharma Bums 

There are three kinds of immovable objects in football. The first is a world-class forward who discovers he can bend the laws of public relations to his will. The second is a Dutch manager, schooled in the Calvinist art of feeling absolutely nothing. And the third - by far the most obstinate - is Liverpool Football Club, that great cathedral of sentimentality which somehow remains wholly unsentimental when push comes to shove. At Elland Road on Saturday, all three collided in a 3–3 mess - a kind of theological debate conducted in football boots - and from the wreckage emerged Mohamed Salah, aggrieved, arms folded, addressing the media with the wounded gravity of a man who still can’t quite believe gravity applies to him.