About an hour or so earlier, Salah had been seen arguing with his manager, Jürgen Klopp, on the touchline.

The Egyptian has been out of form since returning from injury, but this was the strangest sight yet.

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While the fallout from the rather public spat is set to continue, the talk about a potentially big decision needing to be made this summer with Salah has already begun.

"It might suit Mo Salah to move on and it might suit Liverpool to go on and reinvest in the money they get for him."

It is a line of thinking that has been echoed elsewhere too.

And while any new contract must be focused on what he could offer in the future rather than what he has done in the past, the reality of how big a player Salah remains for Liverpool is clear in the most basic of numbers.

Bukayo Saka has hit 15 this season for the first time, for comparison — a number Salah has exceeded in each of his seven seasons at Anfield including this one.

And while Salah has been off form since the turn of the year, he still has a goal every other game in the Premier League in that time.