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Mo Salah 2025/26 Season
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He got that leeway when he undeservedly started for months now though, surely? He also got the leeway of the ticket not to press under klopp and the team shattering itself covering him under klopp and slot.
These decisions had mane at false 9, Diaz at false 9, szobo at right back. He has had it all his way, for years.
He is like a hot girl who hit the wall and perceives normality as an injustice. Sorry ugly.
Yeah, but he deserved it, no? His numbers are second to nobody, I doubt anyone else would have been close to his output given the same circumstances. That's what you should do for players as great as him, try to get the best out of them.
But how long will they wait with slot? Fsg have 2 choices.
1-bin slot now and hopefully a new manager with better tactics can play to mo's abilities
2- wait a week or 3 to not make it look like player power has won and have a new manager in place for when he comes
3-sell mo in January and persist with slot
4-sell mo and also sack Slot...
I'm definitely in the first category .. I would like to see mo have a few months with a manager who can play attacking football and isn't completely clueless fool..
Yes, they did but it's hampered the development of any alternative by going more and more and more all in on someone who is getting worse and worse. His other indulgence is penalties. Nobody will convince me that Salah had his greatest season last year, numbers be damned.
So now we are in a position where the whole deal has predictably broken down. It's stupid we weren't ahead of it, but that's been the case with all our decisions.
It's not just Slot though. Here he was when Klopp dropped him to the bench.
View: https://www.reddit.com/r/LiverpoolFC/comments/1ceec1o/klopp_and_salah_arguing_on_the_touch_line/
View: https://www.reddit.com/r/LiverpoolFC/comments/1ceec1o/klopp_and_salah_arguing_on_the_touch_line/
Get him on the transfer list now, give the Saudi clubs time to save up for 1st Jan.
I do like Mo’s Harry Kane analogy because he was also sold and is scoring in a lesser league.
This, option 1, would have been eminently sensible before the hissy fit.
Salah could definitely have done a (fantastic) job for us.
But now? After essentially saying "I deserve to play, no matter, and if you don't play me then I'll cause an absolute shit storm."
The players will have little respect for him now, particularly those competing for his spot, and no new manager is gonna put up with that. Its completely untenable for a manager.
He's written his own epitath. I don't see how he can stay.
I agree that Salah has behaved poorly here. Not a huge shock really.
However, I'm not sure I'd sell him in January.
We need to try to get something out of this season. It's increasingly obvious that the current manager can't do this.
I think Salah still has a lot to offer, and if Slot goes soon then it's worth keeping him until the summer just to see if Slot's replacement (interim or otherwise) can get more out of him again.
However, I'm not sure I'd sell him in January.
We need to try to get something out of this season. It's increasingly obvious that the current manager can't do this.
I think Salah still has a lot to offer, and if Slot goes soon then it's worth keeping him until the summer just to see if Slot's replacement (interim or otherwise) can get more out of him again.
Whatever he might have to offer, the "I don't have to go every day fighting for my position because I earned it" line fucked it for me. Any player who thinks like that should not be near our first 11.
Don't worry. They're not buying Xmas gifts. They'll still have cash in the account.
You cannot let any player run the manager out of the club like this though.
The we are fucked. Salah will leave.
And I think Salah could have bought Slot until the end of the season with his outburst.
And I don't believe Slot is the answer.
I get that, and I largely agree. But at this point I'm only really interested in getting to the end of this terrible season with CL sorted for next year, and if Salah is still even half the player he was last season, he is capable of helping with that.
Why should hold his job if mo is sold in January?
If mo isnt sold in January is it wise to still have slot here...
For me, either way slot needs to be gone
Oh, I want both gone now, but I think this shite might have bought slot more time.
Paul Gorst
For virtually all of his 420 games as a Liverpool player, Mohamed Salah has politely but decisively rejected the chance to speak to the media after the final whistle has sounded. To be precise, the Egypt superstar has done it on 417 occasions. Just three times, prior to Saturday's explosive offering, has he taken some time to speak to those assembled after matches in the hope of speaking to a player or two.
In 2018, he made good on a promise after he had reached the 40-goal landmark in his first season. Salah may have thought he had set the bar unrealistically high on that one in an effort to avoid a conversation but he ensured he kept to his word.
In 2019, just moments after he had become a Champions League winner with the Reds, he also spoke, beaming with pride as the winners' medal hung from his neck in Madrid after that 2-0 win over Tottenham Hotspur.
And 13 months ago, outside a rain-soaked St Mary's, Salah revealed to just a handful of reporters that he was "more out than in" on account of failing to reach an agreement on a new contract.
So when the 33-year-old told the ECHO he would be back to speak after a quick post-match shower, having sat on the bench for the entirety of Saturday evening's 3-3 draw with Leeds United, it was crystal clear the third highest goalscorer in Anfield history had something he wanted to get off his chest.
What followed for those few huddled inside the Elland Road mixed zone was genuinely extraordinary. Even for a player whose use of the media has been very deliberate in his efforts to send out messages and make a point, the searing honesty across a near seven-and-a-half-minute conversation was remarkable.
From claiming he has been "thrown under the bus" to his admission that the relationship with Arne Slot has completely broken down, through to the hint that next week's visit from Brighton could even be his last at Anfield, it was gobsmacking. Salah spoke like a wounded animal, whose pride had been obliterated by his 'dropping' from the team.
"I don’t know what to say," Salah said. "It’s kind of funny, I couldn’t believe it. It’s a disappointing result for us as a team. We conceded silly goals. I could not help my team-mates because I am on the bench.
"I could not believe I was sitting on the bench for 90 minutes. That’s the third time. It’s the first time in my career I think. I am very disappointed, I have done so much for this club over years, especially last season, It seems like the club has thrown me under the bus.
"That’s how I feel [about] it. Someone wants me to get all the blame. The club promised me a lot in summer. Now I’m on bench so I can say they haven’t kept those promises.
"I used to have a good relationship (with Slot). Now we don’t have any relationship and I don't know why. Seems like someone does not want me in the club. I called my mum and dad and told them to come to the Brighton game.
"It doesn't matter if I play or not. I'm going to enjoy it. I am just going to be at Anfield and say goodbye to the fans before the African Cup of Nations, because I don’t know what is going to happen when I am there.
"It’s not acceptable to me to be fair. If I was somewhere else,every club would protect its players. Now it’s: ‘Throw Mo under the bus because he is a problem in a team.'"
Salah didn't just rock the boat, he turned it stern first towards an enormous iceberg. And at such a turbulent time generally at Liverpool, the question is why now? For reporters gathered at the scene, it is manna-from-Heaven to hear a player of such status speaking so candidly about a desperate situation.
Salah was not angry when he spoke, there was no sense that he had let his mouth run away with him or an idea that the bus journey back to Merseyside from Yorkshire would be filled with regrets inside the head of a player who has plundered 250 goals for the Reds. No, this was a preemptive decision to go nuclear.
But for supporters and colleagues, his astonishing interview only creates more headaches. The 33-year-old has only succeeded in pouring petrol on what looks, at present, like a dumpster fire of a season and Salah's broadside at Slot and other unnamed club officials has only added to the mess the Premier League champions find themselves in.
Monday afternoon will see Liverpool fly out to Milan before Tuesday night's important Champions League clash with last year's runners-up Inter and an embattled Slot could well do without the sideshow that Salah's words will now inevitably cause.
In that sense, it was selfish from Salah, who has been several rungs below the otherworldly standards he produced so often last season en route to the title. Thirteen months ago when he spoke at Southampton, it was questioned whether that was the right time to do so, with the Reds cruising clear at the summit at the time. It was claimed he could destabilise the title charge at a vital period of the season, even if the man himself disagreed.
His two goals to help see off the Saints in a 3-2 win only strengthened his hand over a new contract that he was desperate to secure. Ultimately, the decision to go public that night worked. He earned the biggest contract of all time at Anfield in April and ended the campaign as a Premier League and Golden Boot winner.
This time, however, there can be little justification for stepping out of line. Salah, like many of his colleagues, has had a poor season and while there is some merit in the idea that taking the best source of goals out of the team represents the unnecessary 'shock' option, Liverpool are unbeaten in the three games he has started as part of the substitutes.
It's understandable after 53 consecutive Premier League games that he might feel aggrieved at having to sit out three on the spin but such are the fluctuations of form at the elite level and at a time when Slot is having to plan ahead for his forward's weeks at the Africa Cup of Nations, it cannot be argued that the head coach is cutting his nose off simply to spite his face.
Salah was right in his insistence that he is not bigger than the club but the revelation that he has no relationship with Slot now feels like a volley into the court of owners Fenway Sports Group and maybe even the supporters to now pick a side.
At the age of 33 and with around 18 months left on the biggest deal ever handed out at Liverpool, Salah may not like the answer he gets. Just how has it all come to this?
For virtually all of his 420 games as a Liverpool player, Mohamed Salah has politely but decisively rejected the chance to speak to the media after the final whistle has sounded. To be precise, the Egypt superstar has done it on 417 occasions. Just three times, prior to Saturday's explosive offering, has he taken some time to speak to those assembled after matches in the hope of speaking to a player or two.
In 2018, he made good on a promise after he had reached the 40-goal landmark in his first season. Salah may have thought he had set the bar unrealistically high on that one in an effort to avoid a conversation but he ensured he kept to his word.
In 2019, just moments after he had become a Champions League winner with the Reds, he also spoke, beaming with pride as the winners' medal hung from his neck in Madrid after that 2-0 win over Tottenham Hotspur.
And 13 months ago, outside a rain-soaked St Mary's, Salah revealed to just a handful of reporters that he was "more out than in" on account of failing to reach an agreement on a new contract.
So when the 33-year-old told the ECHO he would be back to speak after a quick post-match shower, having sat on the bench for the entirety of Saturday evening's 3-3 draw with Leeds United, it was crystal clear the third highest goalscorer in Anfield history had something he wanted to get off his chest.
What followed for those few huddled inside the Elland Road mixed zone was genuinely extraordinary. Even for a player whose use of the media has been very deliberate in his efforts to send out messages and make a point, the searing honesty across a near seven-and-a-half-minute conversation was remarkable.
From claiming he has been "thrown under the bus" to his admission that the relationship with Arne Slot has completely broken down, through to the hint that next week's visit from Brighton could even be his last at Anfield, it was gobsmacking. Salah spoke like a wounded animal, whose pride had been obliterated by his 'dropping' from the team.
"I don’t know what to say," Salah said. "It’s kind of funny, I couldn’t believe it. It’s a disappointing result for us as a team. We conceded silly goals. I could not help my team-mates because I am on the bench.
"I could not believe I was sitting on the bench for 90 minutes. That’s the third time. It’s the first time in my career I think. I am very disappointed, I have done so much for this club over years, especially last season, It seems like the club has thrown me under the bus.
"That’s how I feel [about] it. Someone wants me to get all the blame. The club promised me a lot in summer. Now I’m on bench so I can say they haven’t kept those promises.
"I used to have a good relationship (with Slot). Now we don’t have any relationship and I don't know why. Seems like someone does not want me in the club. I called my mum and dad and told them to come to the Brighton game.
"It doesn't matter if I play or not. I'm going to enjoy it. I am just going to be at Anfield and say goodbye to the fans before the African Cup of Nations, because I don’t know what is going to happen when I am there.
"It’s not acceptable to me to be fair. If I was somewhere else,every club would protect its players. Now it’s: ‘Throw Mo under the bus because he is a problem in a team.'"
Salah didn't just rock the boat, he turned it stern first towards an enormous iceberg. And at such a turbulent time generally at Liverpool, the question is why now? For reporters gathered at the scene, it is manna-from-Heaven to hear a player of such status speaking so candidly about a desperate situation.
Salah was not angry when he spoke, there was no sense that he had let his mouth run away with him or an idea that the bus journey back to Merseyside from Yorkshire would be filled with regrets inside the head of a player who has plundered 250 goals for the Reds. No, this was a preemptive decision to go nuclear.
But for supporters and colleagues, his astonishing interview only creates more headaches. The 33-year-old has only succeeded in pouring petrol on what looks, at present, like a dumpster fire of a season and Salah's broadside at Slot and other unnamed club officials has only added to the mess the Premier League champions find themselves in.
Monday afternoon will see Liverpool fly out to Milan before Tuesday night's important Champions League clash with last year's runners-up Inter and an embattled Slot could well do without the sideshow that Salah's words will now inevitably cause.
In that sense, it was selfish from Salah, who has been several rungs below the otherworldly standards he produced so often last season en route to the title. Thirteen months ago when he spoke at Southampton, it was questioned whether that was the right time to do so, with the Reds cruising clear at the summit at the time. It was claimed he could destabilise the title charge at a vital period of the season, even if the man himself disagreed.
His two goals to help see off the Saints in a 3-2 win only strengthened his hand over a new contract that he was desperate to secure. Ultimately, the decision to go public that night worked. He earned the biggest contract of all time at Anfield in April and ended the campaign as a Premier League and Golden Boot winner.
This time, however, there can be little justification for stepping out of line. Salah, like many of his colleagues, has had a poor season and while there is some merit in the idea that taking the best source of goals out of the team represents the unnecessary 'shock' option, Liverpool are unbeaten in the three games he has started as part of the substitutes.
It's understandable after 53 consecutive Premier League games that he might feel aggrieved at having to sit out three on the spin but such are the fluctuations of form at the elite level and at a time when Slot is having to plan ahead for his forward's weeks at the Africa Cup of Nations, it cannot be argued that the head coach is cutting his nose off simply to spite his face.
Salah was right in his insistence that he is not bigger than the club but the revelation that he has no relationship with Slot now feels like a volley into the court of owners Fenway Sports Group and maybe even the supporters to now pick a side.
At the age of 33 and with around 18 months left on the biggest deal ever handed out at Liverpool, Salah may not like the answer he gets. Just how has it all come to this?
Collymore 👏
Former Liverpool FC striker Stan Collymore with a huge assessment of the Mohamed Salah situation at Anfield:
"Mo Salah. A very long read.
"I think I know a little about LFC, its supporters and how they view their club. Shaped of course by Shankly then Paisley, Kenny, Jurgen and now now Slot.
"One thing remains constant, perhaps more than any other English club, its always the club first and last, players and managers add their DNA to the club, but the club trumps the individual.
"Now, Mo Salah has left plenty of winners DNA at Anfield and has taken his place in the pantheon of greats.
"So it's interesting to see his interview, dropping a grenade into the club because if I know Liverpool and it's supporters at all (I think there may be even a generational difference in responses, younger supporting the grenade, older shaking their heads) then their first reaction will be..
"Club, first and last, don't care who it is. Its a living and breathing mantra and one that even Mo Salah will find it difficult to duke it out against.
"Now, could Arne Slot be less pally with players than Jurgen? Absolutely, he's a calm, relaxed, tad detached guy who ( if you remember) was unimpressed with Trent early doors and showed a nonchalant attitude in season one to "one of their own" who'd won everything there is to win. I think that's impressive, but not as impressive as winning the title in your first season. So he's earned his respect too.
"The team are playing well in spurts, comedy defending and decision making at other times. That includes everyone, and if you ask 99.9% of players if they'd accept 2 or 3 games on the bench for not hitting levels, all will say yes. Only in the madness of 2025 modern football would the cult of personalities not only question a reasonable conclusion of 'you're not playing well, here's a spell on the bench', but Mo maybe has almost tricked himself onto elevating himself to the untouchable status of Messi or Ronaldo, players who could, if they chose, literally do and say as they pleased in the last decade. Mo isn't them, and Liverpool as I said, isn't that club either.
"I'm sure some of the youngsters will rant 'he's right and Slot's to blame', but without any evidence that Slot has deliberately ( managers NEED their star players to perform, not to be asked about them in every presser for the next 5 months....) ostracised anyone at the club other than do what every good manager has done since the invention of the game, namely leave someone out who's not playing well misses the point as every great club, team and manager have dropped great players at some stage. Some even when playing well!!
"The solution to what is now a very open sore is simple (ish)
"1. Player and manager talk privately.
2. Manager tells player what he wants from the player.
3. Player commits or tells manager he wants out.
4. If player wants out, make it happen quickly. If not, pick the player and let him be judged by his continued performances. If they're poor, manager can't lose, "I told you so". If they're great, manager can't lose. So Slot playing Mo is a very good starting point, especially as 2 very big signings have yet to make Mo " yesterday's man"
"Arne Slot can help himself a little by using his natural openness to say 'maybe I'm not Jurgen but I love my players and they couldn't have won a spectacular title last season without reacting to me and my methods a little too, but I hear Mo's comments and I can tell you all now, I love him to bits and he's ours to keep'. That heads off any 'seniors' with similar grenades to throw.
"But one thing's for sure, I don't think there will ever be a Liverpool player past, present or future with valid gripes that would jeopardise the 'club first and last' ethos of Liverpool, and those who've had legitimate concerns I'm sure aired them at an appropriate time, not a flash interview when emotions are high.
"Liverpool FC have done as well for every player who's played for them as players have done for the club, so the institution has earned that private, rather than public critique. Whoever that's from."
Former Liverpool FC striker Stan Collymore with a huge assessment of the Mohamed Salah situation at Anfield:
"Mo Salah. A very long read.
"I think I know a little about LFC, its supporters and how they view their club. Shaped of course by Shankly then Paisley, Kenny, Jurgen and now now Slot.
"One thing remains constant, perhaps more than any other English club, its always the club first and last, players and managers add their DNA to the club, but the club trumps the individual.
"Now, Mo Salah has left plenty of winners DNA at Anfield and has taken his place in the pantheon of greats.
"So it's interesting to see his interview, dropping a grenade into the club because if I know Liverpool and it's supporters at all (I think there may be even a generational difference in responses, younger supporting the grenade, older shaking their heads) then their first reaction will be..
"Club, first and last, don't care who it is. Its a living and breathing mantra and one that even Mo Salah will find it difficult to duke it out against.
"Now, could Arne Slot be less pally with players than Jurgen? Absolutely, he's a calm, relaxed, tad detached guy who ( if you remember) was unimpressed with Trent early doors and showed a nonchalant attitude in season one to "one of their own" who'd won everything there is to win. I think that's impressive, but not as impressive as winning the title in your first season. So he's earned his respect too.
"The team are playing well in spurts, comedy defending and decision making at other times. That includes everyone, and if you ask 99.9% of players if they'd accept 2 or 3 games on the bench for not hitting levels, all will say yes. Only in the madness of 2025 modern football would the cult of personalities not only question a reasonable conclusion of 'you're not playing well, here's a spell on the bench', but Mo maybe has almost tricked himself onto elevating himself to the untouchable status of Messi or Ronaldo, players who could, if they chose, literally do and say as they pleased in the last decade. Mo isn't them, and Liverpool as I said, isn't that club either.
"I'm sure some of the youngsters will rant 'he's right and Slot's to blame', but without any evidence that Slot has deliberately ( managers NEED their star players to perform, not to be asked about them in every presser for the next 5 months....) ostracised anyone at the club other than do what every good manager has done since the invention of the game, namely leave someone out who's not playing well misses the point as every great club, team and manager have dropped great players at some stage. Some even when playing well!!
"The solution to what is now a very open sore is simple (ish)
"1. Player and manager talk privately.
2. Manager tells player what he wants from the player.
3. Player commits or tells manager he wants out.
4. If player wants out, make it happen quickly. If not, pick the player and let him be judged by his continued performances. If they're poor, manager can't lose, "I told you so". If they're great, manager can't lose. So Slot playing Mo is a very good starting point, especially as 2 very big signings have yet to make Mo " yesterday's man"
"Arne Slot can help himself a little by using his natural openness to say 'maybe I'm not Jurgen but I love my players and they couldn't have won a spectacular title last season without reacting to me and my methods a little too, but I hear Mo's comments and I can tell you all now, I love him to bits and he's ours to keep'. That heads off any 'seniors' with similar grenades to throw.
"But one thing's for sure, I don't think there will ever be a Liverpool player past, present or future with valid gripes that would jeopardise the 'club first and last' ethos of Liverpool, and those who've had legitimate concerns I'm sure aired them at an appropriate time, not a flash interview when emotions are high.
"Liverpool FC have done as well for every player who's played for them as players have done for the club, so the institution has earned that private, rather than public critique. Whoever that's from."
Our midfield has been mostly crap. We cannot control games and our defence is even worse. He is our main defensive midfielder. He was good when we were still top of the the table in the first 6 games. He's not anymore.
I thought he was our third best player yesterday after Szoboszlai and Ekitike. He is also in second place in the POTS standings.
He looked great in first half but soon as Leeds got going second half, he was nowhere to be seen. He was caught napping again on set pieces too. He must be distant third because at present he isn’t doing his primary job as DCM for the whole game.I thought he was our third best player yesterday after Szoboszlai and Ekitike. He is also in second place in the POTS standings.
I thought he was our third best player yesterday after Szoboszlai and Ekitike. He is also in second place in the POTS standings.
That doesn't mean much. You could have played yesterday and been the third-best player on the pitch.
I feel like this debate (and the last couple of months tbh) is about who performed at a 6/10 level to be our best performing player. Very underwhleming. Just like Szobo - very good player, but fact that he has been our best player tells you just how far we've fallen this season.
