Mohamed Salah offered a cryptic update on his Liverpool future in a social media post to fans after the Reds’ eventful win over Brighton & Hove Albion.
Liverpool fell 1-0 behind but ended up coming back to win the game, with Salah scoring with 20 minutes to go shortly after Cody Gakpo had tied things up, earning three points which took them to the top of the Premier League table.
After the game, Salah took to social media to send a message to supporters in which he appeared to acknowledge that his continuation at Anfield is far from certain.
“Top of the table is where this club belongs,” he wrote. “Nothing less. All teams win matches but there’s only one champion in the end. That’s what we want. Thank you for your support last night.
“No matter what happens, I will never forget what scoring at Anfield feels like.”
Salah is approaching the final six months of his Liverpool contract and is a priority target for a number of clubs in Saudi Arabia, sparking concerns the Egyptian could end his tenure with the Reds at the end of the season.
Alongside Salah, Liverpool are also sweating over the futures of Virgil van Dijk and Trent Alexander-Arnold, who find themselves in the same contractual situation, but manager Arne Slot remains satisfied with the trio’s output.
“The contract situation could become a problem if the players don’t perform as well as they do at the moment,” Slot said before the game. “It’s also not sure that if they perform not as good anymore that has anything to do with the contract situation.
“At the moment, all three of them are in a good place, they all perform really, really, really well. There are ongoing discussions between what Virgil said are the people he had to talk with, and that’s not me, as you know. I talk to him about other things. Let’s wait and see.”
![Rev. Fr. Anthony Odiong, a US-based Nigerian Louisiana Catholic priest, was arrested in Florida on Tuesday for possessing child pornography, according to law authorities. The suspect is reportedly accused of many other cases of sexual assault. The Waco, Texas, Police Department announced in a Facebook post on Tuesday that officers detained Father Anthony Odiong in Ave Maria, Florida, with assistance from the United States Marshals Service. Waco police announced in March that they had received "credible information" about a sexual assault allegedly committed by Odiong in Texas in 2012. “During the subsequent investigation, a case of possession of child pornography was uncovered,” the police said. The priest was apprehended in Florida by the Caribbean Regional Fugitive Task Force. The Waco Police Department said that he will be extradited to Texas. Odiong had previously served in the Archdiocese of New Orleans before being removed as priest in December of last year due to controversy over homilies in which he claimed, among other things, that the Catholic Church was being taken over by "the gays." At the time, the priest was also accused of abusive behaviour; a Louisiana lady claimed in U.S. bankruptcy court that Odiong had committed both financial and sexual abuse against her. Prior to joining the New Orleans Archdiocese, Odiong served in at least two Texas parishes. On Tuesday, Waco police stated that during their sexual assault investigation, "the presence of other survivors was revealed." “Multiple women have come forward to tell similar experiences as the sexual assault survivor who reported the initial allegation,” the police department said. “Survivors’ experiences ranged from sexual assault and indecent assault, more commonly recognised as groping, and financial abuse, with some survivors experiencing every element of Anthony Odiong’s manipulation.” The police said they “believe there may be more survivors, and we wish to speak with anyone who [has] had similar encounters” with the priest. The Archdiocese of New Orleans issued a brief news release on Tuesday noting Odiong's arrest in Florida. The archdiocese “encourages anyone with any information to contact law enforcement,” the release said.](https://chronicle.ng/wp-content/uploads/2024/08/ezgif-6-4730550ede-450x300.jpg "Odiong: US-based Nigerian Catholic priest convicted over sexual assault")