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Salah ‘at peace’ over Liverpool departure

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Mohamed Salah insists he is ‘at peace’ with his imminent Liverpool departure.

Salah will bring the curtain down on a glittering nine-year spell at Anfield after Sunday’s final Premier League game of the season against Brentford.

The Egypt international signed a two-year extension shortly before Arne Slot were crowned English champions for a record-equalling 20th time last term.

However Salah will depart as a free agent this summer after brokering a deal with the Reds’ hierarchy in March to curtail his deal some 12 months early.

It has been a difficult season for the 33-year-old, who found himself at odds with Slot in December due to being benched for three successive games.

Salah also did not hold back with a social media post after last week’s defeat at Aston Villa in which he appeared to question the Dutchman’s style of play.

But despite the recent acrimony, Liverpool’s third highest goal scorer of all-time has no regrets about the circumstainces in which he will soon depart.

“I signed to stay here for two more years and after one year I am leaving. I have no regrets,” he told LFCTV’s ‘Salah: Farewell to the King’ documentary.

“My decision would be the same again. Because I took time to accept the decision. I took time to change the decision but things weren’t going in the right direction.

“So I decided in the end, you know what, this is the right thing for me to do and the fans will know that I gave it all, they appreciate what I have done.

“The club is not just about quality, it is what you give to the fans, what you give to the city, what you are able to give.

“And I just go all-in, they know I’m not holding back, trying to save energy or something. I think this is where the connection starts.

“I have peace with the decision, I have peace with everything. So yeah, I am happy.

“You’re leaving the club, you feel the love and an appreciation from the fans, it means, to me, everything. This is the most important thing.”