Jurgen Klopp is counting on Mo Salah and Sadio Mane to go to war for Liverpool - regardless of which player returns to Anfield as a champion of Africa.
The Kop’s brilliant front two face off against each other in the AFCON final in Yaounde’s Olembe Stadium tonight, when Salah’s Egypt meet Mane’s Senegal.
Klopp is aware it will be heaven for one and hell for the other – and will be sympathetic to the needs of both men when they report back for club duty ahead of Thursday’s game against Leicester.