Main-nooooo. Don’t sell. But they will.

Everybody is talking about Salah, so I’ve decided we’ll start elsewhere. We’ll get round to Mo later.

I learned at the weekend why Amorim won’t play Mainoo, who sadly will leave United now - probably in January.

Amorim believes he can’t get round the pitch - that Mainoo isn’t mobile enough. I’ve heard some baffling nonsense from this generation of coaches (I give you Wilfried Nancy after Celtic’s defeat to Hearts) and this is right up there. Not mobile enough? So Amorim picks Casemiro instead? If it wasn’t so sad it would be laughable.

Mainoo, a United product, will leave the club now because it looks likely his advisors’ game plan has failed - that Mainoo would be at United beyond Amorim.

Paul Scholes is right. It’s criminal. Mainoo’s likely destination is Europe. I’ll narrow it down - if Napoli come up with the money he’ll join Scott McTominay, who should never have been allowed to leave Old Trafford either.

United will immediately move for Joao Gomes if Wolves accept their fate. They’d rather sell as a PL club than have a fire sale when they’re officially relegated, so a deal has got to be done in January.

And another one you can put a few bob on - Semenyo to leave Bournemouth. That will get done early because there’s a few clubs circling and there’s a clause in his deal running the price down the longer he stays at the Vitality.

I make City favourites because they ride roughshod over FFP as we know. Anybody got any news on the 135 charges yet?

Speaking of gambling - keep your eyes on developments at the Amex. The Guardian revealed last week that Bloom is being sued in a lawsuit that alleges ‘frontmen’ are being used to place big bets on sports events. Details have been set out in a public document at the high The Guardian is also claiming Bloom could be the anonymous gambler behind $70m in winnings - which allegedly included bets on his own teams. Bloom denies the suggestion. MP’s have raised questions.

Meanwhile Brighton have banned Guardian reporters from the Amex. Watch this space.

And what a revelation this is from The Telegraph - that John Textor, shareholder at Palace and the Forest owner Evangelos Marinakis, adjusted transfer fees to suit a ‘mutual trading agreement’ when players moved between their clubs. Textor has suggested the agreement affected nine deals. It looks like UEFA were right after all, so why didn’t they say?

What an embarrassment the WC draw was. Admittedly, I can’t remember too many draws I’ve enjoyed, but this one was toe-curlingly, stomach churningly bad. Infantino is out of control.

It’s funny how travel in the US, temperatures and prices are an issue all of a sudden. What did I say when the circus left Qatar, where nobody had to travel and temperatures were glorious?

And they’re going to be using VAR at corners. Why? Of course errors can be made when decisions are taken, but this is going too far. What next? Throw-ins? AI? No refs at all?

I’m with The Mirror’s Andy Dunn - who argues games can be decided by teams not defending corners well enough, not by the decision leading to a corner. He adds ‘teams are as likely to score from an attacking free-kick as they are a corner, so should VAR get involved in every free-kick?’ Exactly.

We can’t get it right using the tech how we currently do. Newcastle’s first should’ve been disallowed because Anthony Gordon is clearly impeding Burnley’s keeper. Of course Brighton’s equaliser was preceded by a clear handball and why did Antony Taylor need VAR to give Leeds a clear pen? Doesn’t he see anything? It’s two weeks in a row now he’s needed the tech to clear up something we all saw.

Good-bye Yves Bissouma. Idiot. But he’s not alone.

The staff at West Ham have made a good decision. They’ve cancelled the Christmas party. I hope the word ‘staff’ includes the players. Nobody at West Ham should be celebrating anything at present.

And finally a word on Mo. Well done. We in the Press are always looking for stories - then when one drops for free we complain? Why? Salah has been nothing but honest. He’s earned the right to have his say.

It was always Liverpool’s intention to sell this season anyway. They teased him in - got him to sign a new deal and they’re desperate to sell. It’s a pity they can’t be as honest about it as Salah has been. He’s only going to be worth £50m+ for a short while longer. They’ve got to sell now if they want to cash in.

It’s a shambles at Anfield. Salah is not the only senior pro pissed off. Arne Lost is on shaky ground for sure. My best guess? If Lost is sacked, Stevie G gets it for the remainder of the season as Liverpool try to get Luis Enrique out of Paris - if Klopp says ‘no’.