Mo Salah's timing was curious. Would the same have happened at Manchester City? Players of Salah's stature only speak when they need to.
Liverpool had just dug deep at Southampton to record a vital three points in the Premier League title race to move eight points clear of a faltering City.
That gap can become 11 next weekend if Liverpool beat City at Anfield, so surely Arne Slot's men wanted to keep things positive going into a week that is potentially title-defining.
After all, in 2019/20, they blew City away so emphatically in the first half of the season, even Pep Guardiola's winning machine couldn't stop the title heading to Merseyside.
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