Salah staying doesn’t change one key point: Liverpool still need to rebuild

On the face of it the Egyptian’s new contract has no downside – but this is not entirely a free ride for Arne Slot and the club

Liverpool's Mohamed Salah who has signed a new two-year deal with Liverpool, the Premier League club have announced. File picture

Well, that’s good then. Things fall apart. But sometime they also don’t. And the centre does actually hold.

Perhaps the most interesting part of Mohamed Salah’s contract extension at Liverpool is the fact this is a rare crossover story, a signing that steps outside its own tribal margins. There will of course be localised delight. Liverpool fans can look forward to their own lost weekend in the sun, a sense that the good times will now continue to roll, that the time bar has shifted. Return to your seats. This is a lock-in.