Not as much about missing out on the player itself as the fact that LFC once again seem to have suffered from ‘the bus is leaving and I’m still on the toilet’-syndrome when a deal is about to be struck. Once is forgivable, twice is starting to get embarrassing, but thrice is starting to create the image of an unwelcome pattern.
Would Mohamed Salah been an important signing for Liverpool? I don’t know enough about the player to give a definitive answer, but here is what I do know: If a club spends a considerable amount of time scouting and negotiating, it suggests the manager wants to add him to his squad. That’s the essence of it for me. Who the player is and what I personally think is obviously as irrelevant as it gets.