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Liverpool may be joyfully saying hello to another three years of Mo Salah… but it means I say goodbye to my status as the club’s all-time top scorer in the Premier League!

I’m not saying I was praying he’d leave this summer… but!

I’m a fan, of course, my lad is, too, and I know just how ­delighted he is that Salah is ­staying – and I know he doesn’t give a monkey’s about my record, either.

Actually, I’m delighted he’s ­staying. Regular readers of this column will have picked up on my thoughts that I don’t consider players as legends of any club, ­unless they show some real ­passion and commitment to that club.

I know I’m probably in the ­minority, but I’ve always rejected the idea Luis Suarez and Fernando Torres are Liverpool legends.

Neither of them stuck around long enough to ever be regarded like that.

Both of them tainted their ­legacy in the ­manner they left the club, with both of them seeming desperate to go and prepared to screw the club over.

I always thought Salah was in danger of doing that too, with the way things were dragging on over his contract negotiations and the way his agent seemed to be ­stirring up trouble.

But fair play to him. The bottom line is, he wanted to stay – ­probably to smash all my records! – and that tells me he wants to become a proper Liverpool legend.

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