What Mohamed Salah did on 77 minutes has given Arne Slot an early headache at Liverpool

Anyone searching for just how troubling these times are for Liverpool just now found all the evidence they needed after 77 minutes here at the London Stadium.

The scene was Mohamed Salah and Jurgen Klopp, the two people who have perhaps done more than any other pair to thrust greatness upon Liverpool in recent years, arguing on the sidelines as the opposition celebrated a goal.

Having risen to global stardom under the careful guidance of his world-class manager, it was a jarring image to see Salah so forcibly at loggerheads with Klopp and the situation was made even more surreal by the sight of famed firebrand Darwin Nunez acting as peacemaker.

With Klopp now into his final weeks ahead of Arne Slot’s appointment and a major question hanging over Salah’s next move, given he has close to just 12 months left on his contract, it was, sadly, a crystallising moment of how this is all coming to a close under the current boss.

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Having been unceremoniously dropped from the team after Wednesday's limp defeat at Everton, there could be no disguising Salah or Nunez's benching here as a resting. And while both players were being readied to try and seal a match-winning third, by the time they were eventually hurled into action, it was instead to restore a lead that proved beyond them.

The season-long problems that have blighted this team have still not been addressed. They routinely concede the first goal and are left in need of a stirring response but while they have now earned a league high 28 points from losing positions, no lessons have been learned. Once more they were asked