I was wrong about Mohamed Salah situation - FSG must give Liverpool answers

Mohamed Salah’s contract situation is scary now. What’s the plan? He’s come out and said he’s not had an offer, said he’s disappointed, and it’s scary.

You would have expected all three players to have been in negotiations a long time ago. They must have a plan but you don’t want to upset the players or their agents, especially considering what Mo has been doing for us this year. All three of them, really.

I find it a bit worrying, it’s concerning. I think every fan will read Mo’s comments and be concerned. It’s maybe a little bit cryptic - we know he can talk to overseas clubs soon - but what does it mean? It doesn’t look great on the club, not at all.

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You look at his stats, it’s just frightening. It’s frighteningly good, and what he’s doing this year, getting all these assists and goals, maybe he thinks he has a point to prove to the owners.

He’s still relatively young in football terms. He’s upped the ante from last year, to show the club and other teams that might want him, he’s still as good as ever.

He’s got to keep playing at the top-level. Don’t go to Saudi Arabia until you’re actually Ronaldo’s age. He’s as fit as Ronaldo. As long as he stays away from injuries, don’t go there until you’re 36 or 37.

By all means enjoy the twilight of your career there, go for two or three years at the end. Because the level he is at now, he could play out there until he’s 45 if he really wanted!

But now, he needs to stay playing at the highest level, for and against the best clubs. I’m sure if Liverpool don’t sort him out, he’d still have the likes of Barcelona and other teams like that coming in for him. On a free? Jesus Christ!

I always thought that if he didn’t sign, it would be his decision. But now he’s come out and said it’s the club, that’s worrying. It’s worrying, and he’s thrown the ball into the owner’s court.

The owners, if they don’t want to pay him what he and his agent think he’s worth, then it will make the fans really angry. They will surely have to come out and address it.

I don’t know what their game is, you know, because there have been so many players who have left at the end of their contracts. Maybe it’s an American way of doing business in sport, but it doesn’t work in football, over here, to just let the contracts run out. Certainly not that I know of, back to when I was playing too.

I know I’m a little bit of a dinosaur, and I don’t mind saying that, but that’s how I see it. Maybe they are in negotiations with another player? We don’t know, we don’t know what’s going on behind the scenes.

It would be nice to hear the club’s perspective and I think the fans will demand that the way it’s going. If he goes, they will want answers.

I know you never want these negotiations to be aired out in public, but for him to come out and say what he has, as a Liverpool fan, you can’t help but question the club.

No concerns about Chiesa

I’m not concerned about Federico Chiesa at all. We only paid £12m for him, it’s not like we paid £70m or £80m for him like Chelsea and Manchester United have done for players who haven’t delivered.

No concerns. He was a stab in the dark. He is a player, so if it comes off the line then great.

If he’s homesick, he shouldn’t have joined in the first place. But he’s been out injured and not playing, it could just be people saying it in Italy. If he had come out and said he was homesick, I would be concerned.

You have to get on with it, like I did when I went to Real Sociedad with my wife. You’ve got to get on with it, it is what it is.

Get your head down, start playing again, and start scoring and assisting goals. That’s what he’ll be desperate to do now he’s back in training and hopefully we’ll see more from him soon.

Leave Doak where he is

Ben Doak is getting exactly what he needed at Middlesbrough. He needed the games. If we haven’t got enough cover for going for the title and Champions League in January, then bring him back.

But he’s getting vital experience and ideally you want him to stay there and keep on learning and progressing like he is so far. It’s going brilliantly for him.

It’s a catch-22 situation if you bring him back, because he is showing now how important it is for him to be playing. When he comes off the bench, he’s scary.

He’s so fast, he puts that ball past you and you’ve got no chance. No chance of catching him, no chance of stopping him. But would he get enough of that at Liverpool at the moment? I’m not so sure.

His final delivery is getting better from playing for Middlesbrough. He needed to improve it and he’s working on it. He’s scoring goals and getting assists.

It’s the one part of his game that’s missing. The rest is there. Middlesbrough are helping him polish it off, hopefully we’ll see it come together for him in a Liverpool shirt next season.