Between Salah’s Goodbye and Ngumoha’s Arrival, Liverpool Are Showing Their Age and Their Future

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They are exposing the strain of any passage through a period of defining to a period of uncertainty.Salah Represents More Than GoalsSalah has never been merely valuable to Liverpool based on output alone, which would be enough to warrant his status in club history. Players such as Salah do not simply take away goals on their side when they go.

The followers are aware of what they are. The opponents are aware of what they fear.

He comes not as a reminder of what Liverpool used to be but as an inquiry into what they can be. However, despite all the commotion, it is not hard to appreciate the worth of Ngumoha: he makes Liverpool feel youthful at a time when the club is being forced to accept old age.(Photo by Carl Recine/Getty Images)A Club in Transition Always Looks UnevenThe difficult thing about Liverpool is that these moments seldom go off well.