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Mohamed Salah and Dominik Szoboszlai of Liverpool during a training session at AXA Training Centre(Image: 2025 Liverpool FC)

Mohamed Salah has teased Dominik Szoboszlai after Liverpool completed the club-record signing of Florian Wirtz.

The Reds announced the signing of the German from Bayer Leverkusen on Friday in a deal worth up to £116m.

The 22-year-old is expected to be utilised at number 10 by Arne Slot - a position Szoboszlai predominantly played in last season.

Wirtz’s official squad number for Liverpool will be confirmed later this summer, with the German having already taken to social media to dismiss suggestions that he was demanding the number 10 shirt at Anfield - which is already worn by Alexis Mac Allister.

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"Who says I want the [ten emoji] I respect players,” he wrote on his Instagram story at the start of June.

“Don't believe everything what's written [clown emoji]."

But with Wirtz’s transfer now confirmed, Salah has joked that the German could instead take the number eight jersey off Szoboszlai on top of his starting position.

Commenting on a post on the club’s official Instagram account of Wirtz looking at a Liverpool shirt hung up in the dressing room, the Egyptian tagged Szoboszlai as he wrote: “Number 8?” along with a crying laughter emoji.

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Szoboszlai reacted to Wirtz’s arrival last week when he warned that he had no intention of giving up his place without a fight.

“No, I don’t think so,” he replied, via oghuncrew, when asked if he was ‘afraid’ of the arrival of the German.