Liverpool manager Arne Slot has refused to confirm whether Mohamed Salah will feature again for the club this season, delivering the kind of carefully measured response that will do little to ease the anxiety growing among the Anfield faithful. Asked directly if Salah has played his last game for Liverpool, Slot replied with a simple "wait and see" — words that carry enormous weight given the Egyptian's contract situation and the games that remain.
Salah's future at Liverpool has been the undercurrent of the entire 2025-26 season. His contract is in its final months, and while Liverpool are eager to keep one of the most influential forwards in their history, nothing has yet been confirmed publicly. At 33, Salah remains a genuinely world-class operator — his reading of the game, his relentless work rate, and his goal contributions still mark him out as one of the best in the Premier League — but the clock is ticking.
Liverpool still have games to play in the title race and the Champions League hunt, but the biggest sub-plot hanging over the club is whether this current crop of fixtures will be the last time Salah pulls on that famous red shirt. The uncertainty is uncomfortable, and Slot's non-answer has done nothing to resolve it.
The Dutchman did, however, speak glowingly about Salah's professionalism during the press conference. Despite all the noise around his future, Salah has remained utterly dedicated on the training pitch and in matches. Slot acknowledged that while there had been a slight drop-off in chance creation compared to Liverpool's record-breaking 2023-24 campaign, the team still expects their attackers to find the net regularly — and Salah remains central to that expectation.
Liverpool have leaned on Salah's output for nearly a decade since his arrival from Roma in 2017. In that time, he has become one of the club's all-time leading scorers, picking up two Premier League Golden Boots and being part of Champions League and Premier League title-winning sides. The prospect of his departure — whether to Saudi Arabia, where he has been heavily linked, or elsewhere — would represent a seismic shift in Liverpool's attacking identity.
Slot was also busy fielding questions about other injury concerns ahead of their fixture against Crystal Palace. Goalkeeper Alisson is close to returning but may not feature in the next match, while Hugo Ekitike has suffered a season-ending Achilles injury. Joe Gomez is working his way back but isn't yet training with the first team.
For now, Salah remains a Liverpool player. Whether he stays beyond the summer, and whether he features again before the season ends, remains very much an open question — and Slot is clearly not ready to give anyone a definitive answer just yet. Liverpool fans will just have to wait and see, as their manager so succinctly put it.
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