Arne Slot hopes Mohamed Salah stays at Anfield for long time to come

Arne Slot wants to enjoy Mohamed Salah's talents for as long as possible after the Egyptian scored one and set up two goals in Liverpool’s 3-0 win away to rivals Manchester United.

Salah (32) is in the final season of his Liverpool contract and afterwards admitted he treated it as his last appearance at Old Trafford, but he used it to show he remains an elite talent as he twice set up Luis Diaz in the first half before getting the killer third in the 56th minute.

Speaking to Sky Sports after the match, Salah said: "I was coming to the game, I was saying 'Look, it could be the last time’. Nobody in the club talked to me yet about contracts so I was just like, ‘OK, I play my last season and see at the end of the season’."

Asked about Salah’s comments, Slot said: "It’s a lot of ‘if’. At this moment he is one of ours and I am really happy with him being one of ours and he played really well. I don’t talk about contracts from players but I can talk for hours about how Mo played today."

Sunday’s win makes it three out of three for Slot, who became the first Liverpool boss since Bob Paisley in 1975 to win his first competitive match against United.

Liverpool had an early Trent Alexander-Arnold goal ruled out for offside but did not let it bother them as they looked a cut above United.

"Everything what you want to see as a manager you saw in this game," Slot said. "There were difficult moments for us, United started really well but then we the have disallowed goal and there was no negative reaction.

"We kept on playing, scoring three, we could have scored more, two important saves from Alisson and the work rate was incredibly well without the ball and that makes it a very positive day."

But for United and Erik ten Hag it was another