Salah seemed frustrated at something Klopp said to him as he was about to be brought on, and seemed to want to prolong the altercation before team-mates Darwin Nunez and Joe Gomez shepherded him away.

Afterwards, Salah declined interview requests, saying: “There’s going to be a fire today if I speak.”

Salah’s contract at Liverpool runs out in summer 2025 and there has been speculation about his future – including talk of a possible move to Saudi Arabia – following the incident.

However, Liverpool’s stance has not changed – the Egypt forward was not for sale prior to the the West Ham game and that remains the case.

Liverpool owners Fenway Sports Group recently appointed the club’s sporting director Michael Edwards as the company’s chief executive of football.

Richard Hughes will also become the club’s new sporting director when he leaves his position as Bournemouth technical director at the end of the season and Salah’s future will be one of the things on their agenda.

Former Everton midfielder Leon Osman agreed with Sutton that the incident at West Ham did not reflect well on Salah.

“If you act like that you are showing disrespect to your team-mates as well as the manager by basically saying ‘I should definitely be playing before them’,” Osman said.

“Yes he has been their best player but you are all part of the squad, you all rotate for the most part, you shake hands when you go off the field because you have the same goal to try and win football matches.

“It is a sad end to the run they have had and the relationship they have had.”