It hasn't been an easy few weeks for Liverpool or Mohamed Salah.

And despite the fact that would have been considered a step forward last summer, there are suddenly suggestions emerging of wholesale changes being required with deficiencies at the back and in the attack.

The reality, though, is that Liverpool will take a much longer-term view.



The last few weeks have been painful for the Reds but the pieces that took them to within five or six games of a league title have not become bad overnight — mainly, injuries have taken their toll.

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A report from National World suggested earlier today that Liverpool is 'planning for life without Salah', with the decision said to have been made to sell the Egyptian.

Salah has scored 24 times and assisted another 13 for Liverpool this season — and that latter number would be considerably larger had Darwin Núñez, in particular, not been so wasteful with the opportunities that he has teed up.

Only Diogo Jota at Liverpool has a better goals-per-minute ratio this season than Salah does, and that is only by five minutes.

Given Salah is over 30, has recently had an injury for the first time in his Liverpool career, and will soon only have 12 months left on his contract, it is not impossible to make the argument that he could be sold this summer