In the end, the news that Mohamed Salah will remain at Liverpool was delivered with a humorous tagline.
“More in than out,” read the message across the club’s social media pages at 8am on Friday, around 36 hours after reports in the forward’s homeland of Egypt first suggested he had agreed to extend his eight-year stay at Anfield.
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It was a play on words, nodding to Salah’s comments in November when his future on Merseyside felt far more tenuous. The fact that he felt “more out than in” after scoring two crucial goals in a 3-2 come-from-behind win at Southampton that day was confirmation that the process of his contract negotiations
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