Liverpool may save approximately £20 million ($27m) in wages next season but they could have earned triple that from selling Salah to an SPL side this summer - money that would have gone a long way towards helping the club to find something resembling a worthy successor.
There is, of course, no like-for-like replacement on the market, simply because there's not a player operating in Europe's 'Big 5' leagues who can match Salah for goals and assists over the past nine years.
Obviously, Liverpool have seen legends leave before, and the Reds have always recovered. No player has ever been bigger than the club, as Salah has said himself, and he was always going to move on eventually.
It really shouldn't have been this summer, though, and it's becoming increasingly difficult to retain faith in those now calling the shots at Anfield. Ditching Salah now clearly wasn't part of the original plan.
When Salah signed his new deal last April, both he and his employers expected him to see it out. However, things have changed dramatically in the interim, not least because of the forward's falling-out with Slot, and the club has opted to put their faith in the coach rather than the star player.
The wisdom of that decision will only become clear in time but it already feels like Liverpool aren't just losing a legend, they're also losing their way.