Below is a summary of the full article. Click here for the full version or go back to LFC Live.net

After the deadline of September 7 passed there was likely a collective sigh of relief among many clubs, Liverpool among them. The Reds, having been willing to sell both Jordan Henderson and Fabinho for a combined £52m to Al-Ettifaq and Al-Ittihad respectively, had been forced to reject a late bid for their talismanic star Mohamed Salah, with owners rejecting a £150m bid from Al-Ittihad in the final week of the Saudi Arabian transfer window, which closed a week after the rest of Europe. Salah stayed, although there had been some concern that another bid of mammoth proportions would emerge at the death that would have been simply too much for the Reds to say no to for a player with two years left on his deal and 31 years old. READ MORE:

“I still think that if clubs really didn’t want to let those players go then they wouldn’t have gone.



At this time, in this particular place, Salah was seen as indispensable to Liverpool and that’s why he didn’t leave.



That obviously comes around in terms of potential broadcasting revenues and commercial deals and everything else that comes with it.