Mohamed Salah starts in his final game for Liverpool as the Reds take on Brentford at Anfield.
Arne Slot has given the Egyptian his send-off as he prepares to leave the Merseyside club after nine years.
The winger, having scored over 250 times for Liverpool, leaves the Reds as a legend, having won two Premier Leagues, the Champions League, two League Cups, one Super Cup, one Club World Cup and one Community Shield.
Salah and Slot have collided throughout the season, including with one incident seeing the forward release a striking public demand for Liverpool to rediscover their attacking identity after their defeat to Aston Villa.
The Egyptian starts for Liverpool in his last game for the club
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"I want to see Liverpool go back to being the heavy metal attacking team that opponents fear and back to being a team that wins trophies," Salah wrote.
He added: "That is the football I know how to play and that is the identity that needs to be recovered and kept for good. It cannot be negotiable."
Responding to his comments and his feelings towards them, Slot said: "No, I don't think it's that important what I feel about it.
"What is important is that we qualify for the Champions League [on] Sunday and I prepare Mo and all of the rest in the best possible way, and the whole team to be ready for the game on Sunday."
Salah released a striking statement after the Reds' defeat to Aston Villa, saying: 'I want to see Liverpool go back to being the heavy metal attacking team that opponents fear'
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When asked about the effect of his comments, the Liverpool manager said: "I don't know if it had impact on the group.
"But what I've seen is that the team trained really well this week, and we hope to continue really well in the upcoming two days, so we're in the best possible way prepared. I think Mo and I have both the same interests.
"We want the best for this club; we want the club to be as successful as possible. We were both part of giving our fans their first league title again after five years. But we're also aware, all of us, that we didn't bring the same level this season.
"What we want, what he wants, what I want is the club to be as successful as we were last season. That is where my main focus is on now, because the game on Sunday could give us a really good base going into next season. That is where we should focus."
Slot and Salah have clashed throughout this season
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Slot was keen to speak about his future with the club and what his hopes are for the next campaign.
He explained: "That's the main aim, and I have to find a way to evolve this team - now, but definitely in the summer and the upcoming season - to be successful again and to play a brand of football that I like.
"And if I like it, then the fans will like it as well. Because I haven't liked a lot of the way we played this season as well. There were far too many games where we dominated ball possession, but it didn't lead to anything special or any moments.
"But again, that's also the way the league has evolved because in general we don't see the 3-0, 4-0, 5-0, 6-0 games anymore."
Salah leaves Liverpool as a club legend and their third all-time record goalscorer
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He continued: "It's a close game every single time; not only with us, any single game.
"But we try to evolve the team in a way, as I said, that we can compete but definitely also play the brand of football, the style of football [that] the fans, I, and hopefully Mo if he's somewhere else at that moment of time, will like as well."
Liverpool's contest against Brentford comes as nine other matches get underway, with the Bees having to win to potentially secure a place in Europe.
Elsewhere, an intense relegation battle is in store, with West Ham United needing to win against Leeds United and hoping Everton beats Tottenham Hotspur to stay up.
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