Oh shit! what a dissappointment I’ve finished the 47 posts already, ok I didn’t read all of them but I thought they would go on longer. 
Yeah most of them were shite. And that’s to say nothing of omegaWUM @Draexnael’s wry shitposts. Place has gone to the dogs….
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Hopefully he signs a new deal. Obviously.
But worse case scenatio, a scenario that appears to not worry some posters?
How can we replace him?
We can legitimately argue that he is currently the best player in the world.
How do you replace that?
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It might sound like a bonkers point but I actually think it’d maybe be easier to replace Salah AND Firmino than just Salah on his own.
Get the best wide option you can but won’t be as goal heavy as Salah, if they play on left move Mane to the right. Bring in the best CF/traditional 9 as we can.
We lose something that Firmino brings anyway if we haven’t got Salah to take advantage of the space and chaos Firmino creates. With Jota a realistic alternative at 9 and on both sides too. No one player we can bring in can replace what Salah brings to the side, got the best open play goal record in Premier League history or son stupid plus a ridiculous assists record which would be the envy of any playmaker.
Spreading what Salah and Firmino bring (purely in terms of goals and assists only) between two players is more likely to succeed than just doing our best replacing Salah and hoping we can get more goals out the rest of the team but without the Salah assists. That’s my opinion only but I’m desperately hoping we don’t have to find out.
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Great reply and also a great indication as to why Mo should stay, he thrives when the team is on top he isn’t a one-man wonder show and Klopp’s Tactics allow him to prosper and to be in the talk about being the best player on the planet!
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Jota, Firmino and Mané will do just fine. I’m sure where we lose in goals we’ll gain in fewer goals against. VVD will double his efforts to get back to his previous enviable levels, Mané will help Trent, Jota will play his part and Firmino back with a new objective (find some else to pass to, if we’re lucky 2 or even 3).
Not too fussed. Would rather enjoy him play while he’s here than worrying about how we’ll replace him which one day we’ll anyways have to do.
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Ok
Lose the best player in the world, continue as normal.
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Just sit back and enjoy. 
There are only 2 players who can replace Mo, one is called Kylian the other is called Erling.
If we lose Mo go out and get one of them and we’ll be ok.
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Do people genuinely think that we couldn’t compete with teams like this:
Alisson
Trent Matip VVD Robbo
Hendo Fab Thiago
Mané Vlahovic Jota
Alisson
Trent Matip VVD Robbo
Hendo Fab Thiago
Raphina Jota Mané
Alisson
Trent Matip VVD Robbo
Hendo Fab Thiago
Mané Martinez Jota
or any other combination of these, or even including Mbappe or Haaland which are unlikely but not impossible?
How do you replace Salah? If we have to get to that point which I’d prefer we didn’t, but will one day, then you buy a decent player who, sure, probably won’t score 30 goals a season, but doesn’t have to, they just have to help the team score more goals than the opposition in each game.
I’m sure the scouting team would have a dozen names that I haven’t mentioned. The point is, losing Salah would be disappointing, but it would not be the end of the world.
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Whilst I kind of agree with your point I’d have Bobby ahead of all three of them 
BBC kiss of death. Watch him stop scoring now 
Wouldn’t score anywhere near as many goals as our current side meaning we’d have to improve, significantly, in our defensive record to hope to still amass 90+ point seasons which seem minimum requirement these days if wanting a chance at league titles. The other variants may or may not work but all require some form of restructuring the side like I said would probably be the result of Salah leaving.
It’s not just his goals you lose though. It’s the forward with the highest chance Creation and assists rates since he got in the league too. So just helping the team score more goals isn’t as easy as you make it sound. You lose both the goals Salah scores personally (with very little chance of a direct right wing replacement coming in that can get near to that) but also the chances he creates for others which leads to goals for them. We’d actually be doing extremely well with our recruitment if the new player could simply replace that element of Salahs game let alone improving it.
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There’s literally no point in trying to reply to this. Whoever said they thought your were on the wind up probably has a point. Either that or your general understanding of how football works is so fundamentally flawed that you’re incapable of understanding anything that anyone else is saying.
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It’s quite simple to me. You’ve got the player most likely to score in the league since he came in as well as the forward player most likely to create chances for others to score since he came in. You aren’t replacing that with one in one out. It’s going to require us changing things. We may end up as good or even possibly better. But it’s not going to be by just taking Salah out and putting the next best right winger in there.
For instance you listed Raphina as an option, what i was replying to, but Salah has a goal contribution in the league for us every 88 minutes. That is a goal every 125 minutes sure but it’s also an assist every 302 minutes as well. Raphina might be a good player but you’re requiring a massive step up, absolutely huge, he has a goal contribution every 158 minutes, goal every 279 minutes and assist every 362 minutes.
By losing Salah you aren’t just losing the goals he personally scores. It’s fine to think others will increase their scoring to overcome that deficit but how? Salah is one of the major reasons others score so many AS WELL! So you’re taking a hit on everyone else’s chances of scoring goals.
That’s why I’ve been saying to successfully deal with Salah leaving we will need to restructure. Say for arguments sake we are losing Salah, but if we also moved Firmino on too as an example it creates better chances to successfully restructure. (Not that I want to lose either but we are currently looking at losing those two and Mane next summer or summer after).
So looking at Salah and Firmino the year we won the league they combined for 46 goal contributions, 28 goals and 18 assists. That’s not easy to replace but there are players out there with potential to get to that kind of level. Take two young promising players we’ve been linked to in Vlahovic and Szoboszlai. Neither has a chance of replacing Salah however the last full season Vlahovic had in Itally last year he got 21 goals and 2 assists, Szoboszlai last had a full season in Austria two years ago scoring 9 assisting 14. Weaker leagues but less playing time and younger with potential to grow and develop under Klopp. Wouldn’t be an instant fit but those two could, in theory, come in, develop and become as good between the two of them as Salah and Firmino are between the two of them. It wouldn’t happen over night but the potential is there to restructure and cope but it’ll be a big change.
Nah, there are always good players ready to take over. Whilst the likes of Mbappe and Haaland are top players they’re not the only good footballers out there.
Good post.
Raphinha would be a prime example of a player that looks more than capable of making the next step, like Jota and Mane did. The quality is obvious, he just needs better players around him.
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Good player, but from him to Salah isn’t step! Its more an Olympic long jump
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I don’t get this attitude at all. Look at Jota’s form since joining us compared to when he was at Wolves. You’re not factoring in the Klopp factor. Raphina at Leeds is a big leap from Salah. Raphina at Liverpool would be top class.
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Not even necessarily the Klopp factor, but just the change in team and playing style in general.
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