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'Is this guy crazy?' - Arne Slot makes January transfer window and Mohamed Salah contract claims

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Arne Slot saluted "extraordinary" Mohamed Salah after another superb performance helped Liverpool go eight points clear


the Reds boss has joked that the opening of the January transfer window might help ease the amount of questions he is asked about the forward's ongoing contract impasse.




Salah, who scored his 20th goal of the campaign before setting up Diogo Jota with a sublime second-half assist on Sunday, can speak to clubs outside of England from New Year's Day


Salah claimed at full time that "we are far away" from an agreement.


Slot was full of praise for the Egypt captain in his post-match press conference while laughing off the prospect of adding to his squad when the window opens from January 1.



Slot


"Mo, when the word extraordinary [is said], it's something I've heard a lot in the last six months and he truly deserves this and probably in the last eight years, but I'm [only] involved in the last half year,"


"So yeah, I don't think he keeps surprising us. We know what a player he is and we know he's able to do so.


“But apart from that, he works really hard for the team also when the other team has the ball and yeah, we can only hope that he can keep bringing these performances in.


"But I would like to add that if he scores, there's also a lead up to him scoring.


“So there are also other players that bring him in these positions, but if you bring Mo in these positions, he's extraordinary. Definitely."


On Salah, Alexander-Arnold and Van Dijk's contract situations from the start of 2025, Slot added: "I think I have a lot of control over what they do. If they're on a training pitch, if they're in a meeting with me, but talking about the private lives, I don't have control about them. So that was the situation I had a year ago.



“That's been the situation as long as I'm a manager, but I have control to a certain extent over them from what I expect from them on the pitch.


“And I'm really pleased to see what Virgil brings, what Trent brings and what Mo brings.


"Now the positive thing for me is that for four or five months it was only Trent, Mo and Virgil, what you guys were talking about.


“And I assume - and don't let me down now please, - that people now are going to talk about how we're going for a player and who we are going to bring in the upcoming month and which other player is going to leave. So I get some other questions as well. Not only about these [three].


"There's nothing in the media yet about who we're going to bring in [during the window].


“And also not in my mind where I'm very happy with this call. We have, I said this six months ago and everybody laughs [and asks]: 'Is this guy crazy?'


“But I think the players showed that the confidence the club and me had in them as well was well deserved."





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