After nine memorable years at Anfield, the question facing Salah now is: What happens next? He has seen a move elsewhere mooted, amid supposed interest from the Saudi Pro League and MLS, with the 2025-26 campaign proving to be a testing one for all concerned.
McAllister hopes that Salah will enjoy a fitting end to his Liverpool career, whenever that day comes, adding on the desire to avoid leaving under a cloud: “I think if somebody has been, over the years, watching Mo Salah at Anfield and what he's done for the club, he has been outstanding. Stats and numbers and analysis is very big, so he's about as good as anybody on the planet. He's been outstanding for the club.
“It's been a quiet season, it's been a very up and down season for everybody involved at Liverpool and he's finding that as well. I think Arne's touched on the fact that any sort of rationale in thinking about how the season's gone tends to sound like an excuse. But for me, it's a big transition in the summer and it's really difficult to incorporate five major signings. They're nearly all over 50 million, so hence you would think they've got to play. But trying to incorporate five in at one time has proven to be really difficult.
“I felt just as ]Alexander] Isak was getting a nice bit of a relationship with [Florian] Wirtz, he goes and gets injured. I think the goal where he got injured was the sort of thing that you would maybe expect to see a little bit earlier between Florian and Isak. And then he goes and gets injured and Florian's had injuries. But the one positive has been [Hugo] Ekitike. I think the two young full-backs are starting to find what the expectation level is like at Anfield.
“But going back to the original question, I think Mo, obviously for his confidence as well, even players right at the top end of the game suffer little lapses of confidence. So I think that was his first goal in 100 minutes against Wolves. So even though it was a poor result at Molineux, getting back on the scoresheet will give him a lift.”