Liverpool can be a dominant force in football again, and they can send a message to the world by keeping Mohammed Salah at the club no matter what.
Reds legend Ian Rush told the Daily Mirror that it wouldn’t surprise him if the club one day soon, received a £200million bid for the attacker.
Rush is right, if Salah was to continue this season’s form, it’s only a matter of time before mouth watering offers are put on the table.
The winger has scored 23 goals in 29 appearances for Liverpool this season, having joined from AS Roma for £36.9million in the summer.
This form has seen him named among the elite players this season, and rightfully winning honours such as the African Player of the Year.
Meanwhile, Liverpool have once again just waved goodbye to a key player as Philippe Coutinho left for Barcelona in a £142million deal.
It will have Reds fans remembering when they lost the best player at the club, Luis Suarez to Barcelona in 2014 for £75million.
Suarez and Coutinho were right to leave, and Liverpool were powerless to keep them.
However, Salah is a different matter.
The pacey winger can win everything he wants at the Reds, as they are so close, to restoring glory to the club.
This season saw them return to the Champions League, and it looks likely they’ll feature next season too.
With one or two more signings, funded by Coutinho’s move, the Reds are more than serious title contenders next season as well.
In fact given the age of their squad, they look like they can regularly compete for honours just like the Liverpool teams of old did in the 70s,80s and to a degree the 90s.
It can be argued Suarez and Coutinho may have turned down dream moves to Barcelona, if Liverpool were more of a dominant force when it came to winning silverware.
Barcelona are always regularly winning titles and cups; or at the very least, finishing as runners-up.
Liverpool finally have enough to regularly be among the elite in football again, winning trophies, and that means they shouldn’t be forced to let Salah go.
The Reds can dismiss any notion that they’re a selling club, which undermines them, by rejecting any bid that comes for Salah in the near future.
Salah can be kept happy at the club, unlike Suarez and Coutinho, as Liverpool can become the trophy winning side, he would want them to be.
However, if the Reds sell the 25-year-old if a massive bid arrives; the club are accepting that they will never be a powerhouse in football again.
This is why keeping Salah, come what may, would send a clear message, that Liverpool are back.