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Mohamed Salah and Andy Robertson officially presented with gifts ahead of final Liverpool game

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Image Credits: Imago ImagesThere are endings that arrive with bitterness, and endings that arrive with grace.On Saturday morning at Liverpool’s training ground, ahead of one final appearance against Brentford, the club chose grace.The occasion was the last training session of the 2025/26 season — and for two men who have defined nearly a decade of English football’s most decorated side, it became something more than a routine workout.Arne Slot and the Liverpool squad gathered to say goodbye to Mohamed Salah and Andy Robertson, who will both leave Anfield when their contracts expire at the end of June.The words will come on Sunday, in front of a full Anfield.The emotions will come then too.But on Saturday, it was a quieter, more intimate kind of tribute, the kind that happens between teammates, behind closed doors, before the world gets its turn.The squad presented both players with personalised framed mementos.Each frame carries the player’s number, the trophies they won in a Liverpool shirt, and imagery from their years wearing the Liver bird.A career, reduced to one frame, and somehow still overwhelming.For Salah, the frame tells a story that few players in the history of the game could match.Seven Premier League seasons.Three league titles.A Champions League.Four Golden Boots.Three FWA Footballer of the Year awards.And in November 2025, a goal that placed him alongside Ian Rush and Roger Hunt as only the third player in Liverpool history to score 250 goals for the club.He arrived in 2017 as one of football’s most exciting prospects.He leaves as one of its defining figures.Robertson’s frame tells a different kind of story, one that starts not in the Champions League but in the Championship, at a Hull City side being relegated, where a Scottish full-back was playing good football in front of almost no one.He cost Liverpool around £8 million.He repaid them with 331 Premier League appearances, 60 assists, a Champions League winner’s medal, two league titles, and the kind of relentless, joyful aggression that made him one of the finest left-backs of his generation.Together, they won every major trophy available at club level.They shared the pitch for over 250 matches.They were, in many ways, the heartbeat of the same team,one providing the goals that made headlines, the other providing the energy that made everything possible.Sunday will be the last chapter.A full Anfield, one final lap, and whatever the result against Brentford, the kind of reception that stays with a player for the rest of their life.But the real goodbye happened on Saturday morning, with a frame that tried to hold nine years of greatness in a single image.It almost managed it. Andy Robertson Mohamed Salah