Machiavelli
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With Liverpool losing Salah and Mane to AFCON he is going nowhere in jan more likely to be holding out for summer where he can bag a large signing fee and wages
Liverpool are negotiating with AFCON such that they stay for the two early games in Jan and, if they do, that'll leave only two PL games that they'll have to play without Salah and Mane (against teams that they'd be expected to beat, even without Mane, Salah and Origi). I don't think that this will be quite as big an issue as you make out. There are other factors that will have a greater bearing.