The absence of even a single laughing emoji was perhaps the biggest clue.
When Jurgen Klopp again spoke - with more than a hint of a weary tone - of Mohamed Salah’s contract, he mustered a smile long enough to say: “The decisive parties are talking to each other and that's all I need. That's it." These are virtually the same words he uttered a month ago, hence his passable impression of Bill Murray in full Groundhog Day mode. Yet the response this time told a different story.
Back in March, Salah’s agent Ramy Abbas Issa replied to that seemingly innocuous statement with not one laughing emojis, but seven. The implication was clear: there were no talks.
