Keifer MacDonald gives his take on Mohamed Salah transfer saga as Liverpool and FSG must avoid second summer trap
Given his remarkable Premier League return in the month of August, it's fair to say this is not how Liverpool or Mohamed Salah expected his name to make the headlines ahead of the bank holiday weekend.
Even at 31, Salah clearly still has plenty to offer Liverpool. Of course, it was only on Saturday afternoon - during the 3-1 victory over Bournemouth - that he moved ahead of Reds legend Steven Gerrard in the all-time scoring charts with his 187th strike for the club.READ MORE: Liverpool told they have quietly signed their Andrea Pirlo
"We are Liverpool and qualifying to the competition is the bare minimum. I am sorry but it’s too soon for an uplifting or optimistic post. We let you and ourselves down." But what the departures of both aforementioned midfielders proved, as the Reds' search for a holding midfielder took a considerable left-field turn, is that the grass isn't always greener. And even with the offering of a boosted transfer kitty, sometimes it is simply better to stick rather than twist.
And even though the Liverpool manager had been delighted with his capture of the midfielder, and revealed he was quickly inundated with celebratory messages from his homeland, the fact that Endo boasts no European experience at the age of 30 indicates that he is used to operating at a significantly lower level than Liverpool's Champions League and Premier League-winning Fabinho, who enjoyed a three-year spell as the best in class across Europe.
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