The warning signs were there for Mohamed Salah.

His form wasn’t great. Pundits were starting to get on his back. Fixtures were coming thick and fast for Liverpool. Plus, manager Arne Slot clearly needed to switch things up amid the team’s worst run of results in more than 70 years.

And so, Salah was dropped.

Indeed, he didn’t even come off the bench in the crisis-averting 2-0 win at West Ham in the Premier League on Sunday.

Cue hysteria, and maybe some over-reaction.

Questions about whether this was the beginning of the end for Salah at Liverpool might be premature.

The trip to West Ham came in the middle of a run of five matches in 15 days for Liverpool. Missing out on the middle one of those — against one of the worst teams in the league — was hardly big a deal, even if it was the

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