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Slot knows the champions elect will have to spend to freshen up their squad and he says Salah’s decision to stay is the perfect statement about Liverpool’s ambition.

Salah, 32, will earn nearly £500,000-a-week and Slot says this shows Liverpool are serious about continuing to move forward.

So that helps, but what helps the most is that we kept a quality player that scored seven or eight years in a row, so many goals for us.”



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Salah, 32, is third in Liverpool’s all-time scoring list behind Ian Rush and Roger Hunt with 243 goals and 109 assists in 394 appearances.

Slot says the Egyptian star is a modern-day great for Liverpool and says his mentality makes him stand out.

“There are many players who can score goals, but Mo can score a goal if he’s not in the best half hour or the best 15 minutes,” he said.

"That’s why he’s so mentally strong and you need that if you want to be seven or eight years at the highest level, every three or four days.

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“Apart from quality, apart from physique, you need to be mentally very strong as well and I think how mentally strong he is is probably what stands out for me.”

Salah turns 33 in June, but is playing as well as ever for Liverpool this season and he has always prided himself in being in peak physical condition.

“We have all the confidence in him that he can produce two more years like he has produced in the past seven or eight years.

But also because he will make this team very strong next season.”

Arne Slot has hailed Salah's displays(Image: Liverpool FC via Getty Images)

Slot claims Salah has little room for improvement because he is so good and quoted golfer and two-time US Open champion Bryson DeChambeau.

“I saw DeChambeau saying this at the Masters golf, and it was from Vince Lombardi, where he said ‘we’re all trying to reach perfection, which we’ll never reach, but we’ll reach excellence on the way’,” he said.