Mo Salah 2025/26 Season

[rubans]

Yeah but you're part of the Mo Salah superfan club, just like you were Trent, so of course you'll be 1 that turns a blind eye whenever he fucks up. Poor Mo Salah never gets the ball down his side, get the fuck outta here man.

Salah doesn't have the legs anymore to be productive for a full 90, that's been evident for over 2 years. Sit his arse on the bench for a bit and either sign a new winger that has some self confidence to beat a man and the balls to work, or play Szobo/Harvey/Rio/Frimpong.

And you were part of the original Mo hate club previous year who had a massive forced climb down last year. But regardless, let’s focus…
You don’t have a fcking clue dude, all over the place. If we went with your suggestions, we would be bottom half. Trent and Mo, part of the golden gen who achieved the lot, how awful of me to get behind them,,,
Rio/Harvey/Szbo/Frimpong to start over Mo? Rio is 16 and plays left it seems, Frimpong who is injured? Sign someone else? It’s not going to happen as we have other bigger priorities. Come up with at least a plausible plan? That was pure nonsense.
You bang on about Mo, because it’s easy but unluckily for you, he is doing his job still.

 

[FullStop]

a real user using a bot

lol Like Neo in the Matrix. 😆 Would he be a real user using a bot? Or not? 😆

 

[Modo]

lol Like Neo in the Matrix. 😆 Would he be a real user using a bot? Or not? 😆

I think your question gave me brain aids.

 

[SummerOnions]

I think your question gave me brain aids.

Maybe he came from the universe to balance out the smartness we were learning from Beamrider

 

[MomoWASright]

Dantes? Pretty sure he's on loan with an option to buy that will not be taken up.

If its juts an option to buy, not an obligation, then I assume he has been loaned to seiminutipazzeschi.com

Definitely has an Italian club involved with all this.

 

[KopRed]

We would have gotten only 2 points if Salah was not on the pitch. The deft cross to Jones which ended up in the sky and then Chiesa. The pass to Rio.

He is not playing too well now, but he is still the difference maker most of the time. In the 2nd half of last season it was the same; despite not playing well, he has layed on so many great balls to our players that were not finished off.

Are posters here actually allergic to players who actually have an end product? Gakpo was picked on alot, now Salah.

Who else has been producing the goods consistently I wonder? Who else should start ahead of Salah and Gakpo?

 

[Frogfish]

We would have gotten only 2 points if Salah was not on the pitch. The deft cross to Jones which ended up in the sky and then Chiesa. The pass to Rio.

That makes the assumption that with 11 men defending and attacking we wouldn't have gone on to score more and that we would have still conceded twice despite having the extra man actually in our half of the pitch.

 

[KopRed]

That makes the assumption that with 11 men defending and attacking we wouldn't have gone on to score more and that we would have still conceded twice despite having the extra man actually in our half of the pitch.

What on earth are you on about?

 

[Frogfish]

What on earth are you on about?

Work it out. It's not brain surgery.

 

[KopRed]

Work it out. It's not brain surgery.

I have tried.

When someone is over complicating things, it just tells me he is clutching at straws.

 

[Frogfish]

I have tried.

When someone is over complicating things, it just tells me he is clutching at straws.

It's not complicated so that may say something about you. Take Salah away when he's not contributing and replace him with someone who defends as well as attacks.

 

[KopRed]

It's not complicated so that may say something about you. Take Salah away when he's not contributing and replace him with someone who defends as well as attacks.

Let's drop Salah against Arsenal because of some crazy theory then!

 

[Buddha]

Let's drop Salah against Arsenal because of some crazy theory then!

How on earth is it a ‘crazy theory’ that someone can contribute in both an attacking sense and a defensive sense on the right?

If Szobo started on the right instead of Mo the other night for instance, we’d have been infinitely more defensively solid and he’d still have been able to potentially contribute in the attacking third…when moved into midfield for instance he was integral to our winning goal…

Our team is unbalanced right now and unless Salah makes use of the considerable efforts of others to make up for his lack of defensive duty by being a unicorn attacker, we’re skewing the whole system without reward.

 

[KopRed]

How on earth is it a ‘crazy theory’ that someone can contribute in both an attacking sense and a defensive sense on the right?

If Szobo started on the right instead of Mo the other night for instance, we’d have been infinitely more defensively solid and he’d still have been able to potentially contribute in the attacking third…when moved into midfield for instance he was integral to our winning goal…

Our team is unbalanced right now and unless Salah makes use of the considerable efforts of others to make up for his lack of defensive duty by being a unicorn attacker, we’re skewing the whole system without reward.

Dropping our newly minted PFA player of the year, top scorer for last 100 seasons, for Szobo who just had a single great game at RB, at the eve of one of the biggest game of our season, is just looney tunes talk.

It's not going to happen so there is really no point talking about it. Why don't we revisit this topic when we are no longer getting 6 out of 6 points or scoring 7 goals from 2 games. You might actually have a case then.

 

[StevieM]

I don't think the ball goes to him as much anymore - most of the stuff is happening on the left hand side. That is why it looks like he does nothing, but if Jones gets that 2nd goal in the first half when Salah crossed, then we would all be not talking about him. I have learnt not to lay into Salah now, its pointless - why do we do it to ourselves by having a go at him everytime he has a quiet game yet gets the goal(s) or the assist ?

It’s a tactic - we’re overloading the left so that the opposition moves over and creates more space and less defensive focus n Mo - but we’re not hitting those cross field switches fast or often enough yet.

 

[rubans]

It’s a tactic - we’re overloading the left so that the opposition moves over and creates more space and less defensive focus n Mo - but we’re not hitting those cross field switches fast or often enough yet.

This was the point made in the original analysis I made above. Salah isn’t doing enough with the ball when he has it but he isn’t also getting enough of it on the right this season.

 

[Frogfish]

Dropping our newly minted PFA player of the year, top scorer for last 100 seasons, for Szobo who just had a single great game at RB, at the eve of one of the biggest game of our season, is just looney tunes talk.

It's not going to happen so there is really no point talking about it. Why don't we revisit this topic when we are no longer getting 6 out of 6 points or scoring 7 goals from 2 games. You might actually have a case then.

We don't have to drop him - just sub him off if we're under the cosh and he's not contributing to defence.
One of the reasons we couldn't get out was he was (as the heat map shows) 10m ahead of any of our other players and so useless in defence and we were effectively playing 10 vs 10 when defending.

There is a time and place for that. Maybe if he was back helping out then we'd have won 2-0 but that would have denied us Rio's winner and that was soooo sweet so there is that.

 

[juniormember]

We don't have to drop him - just sub him off if we're under the cosh and he's not contributing to defence.
One of the reasons we couldn't get out was he was (as the heat map shows) 10m ahead of any of our other players and so useless in defence and we were effectively playing 10 vs 10 when defending.

There is a time and place for that. Maybe if he was back helping out then we'd have won 2-0 but that would have denied us Rio's winner and that was soooo sweet so there is that.

Problem was that we as a team were also pretty shite. 10 vs 10 would have been fine, as that would have meant Mo would be completely free for the counter attack, but we were just not capable of stringing a few passes together. Pathetic when you consider we outnumbered them.
Really hoping for some overall improvement.
I don't enjoy watching Mo for 90 minutes, he frustrates the hell out of me, but he's definitely not our main issue right now. Plenty of other players kept losing possession. He made his possession count at the end as well.

 

[Frogfish]

Problem was that we as a team were also pretty shite. 10 vs 10 would have been fine, as that would have meant Mo would be completely free for the counter attack, but we were just not capable of stringing a few passes together. Pathetic when you consider we outnumbered them.
Really hoping for some overall improvement.
I don't enjoy watching Mo for 90 minutes, he frustrates the hell out of me, but he's definitely not our main issue right now. Plenty of other players kept losing possession. He made his possession count at the end as well.

Oh yes I'm not blaming him in isolation, clearly much more was going on, however I'm just saying that had we had an attacker more willing to help out then 11 vs 10 would / should have enabled us not to concede twice! No need even for a last minute winner. We won't keep getting away with it!

 

[rubans]

The fact we have constantly conceded is not down to one player. We haven’t been effectively to control game since Jan. No point ignoring that. We effectively won the league in first half of the season but we weren’t the same in 2nd half as a team.

We have lost vital leads constantly and I can’t remember the last time our midfield dominated or controlled a lead. The implication that one attacker who has less defensive responsibility is the main reason in a team game to me doesn’t makes no sense.

First need to look at the system and midfield, then focus on individual elements.

 

[Buddha]

Dropping our newly minted PFA player of the year, top scorer for last 100 seasons, for Szobo who just had a single great game at RB, at the eve of one of the biggest game of our season, is just looney tunes talk.

It's not going to happen so there is really no point talking about it. Why don't we revisit this topic when we are no longer getting 6 out of 6 points or scoring 7 goals from 2 games. You might actually have a case then.

Why not just address the post instead of a hyperbolic teenage strop?

I quoted you and responded to you calling Froggy’s point about having more defensive / attacking balance on the right without Salah at times as a ‘crazy theory’. It’s obviously not. There is a better potential defensive / attacking balance to be had on the right side, obviously, given our system is skewed towards relieving Salah of defensive duties - as per both Mo and Slot.

I then used the example from Monday’s game that Szobo’s attacking end product in the game was obvious at the end even though he moved into midfield for the last quarter of the game and had he started at right wing he’d offered a lot more defensively than Salah, of course. Again there is a better potential defensive / attacking balance than Mo offers us.

There’s an argument to be had that Salah’s decline isn’t yet anywhere near obvious or sustained to warrant benching him, of course, but that’s not the same as dismissing any overall consideration of a below par or decline in Salah on the overall balance or effectiveness of the team, especially when we’re fielding a makeshift right back away from home against fired up rivals.

And if you don’t think that the coaching staff think there’s a case to think about these things after a messy defensive start to the season despite ‘6 points in 6’ then fuck knows why you’re on a football forum debating these things.

 

[StevieM]

Yeah but you're part of the Mo Salah superfan club, just like you were Trent, so of course you'll be 1 that turns a blind eye whenever he fucks up. Poor Mo Salah never gets the ball down his side, get the fuck outta here man.

Salah doesn't have the legs anymore to be productive for a full 90, that's been evident for over 2 years. Sit his arse on the bench for a bit and either sign a new winger that has some self confidence to beat a man and the balls to work, or play Szobo/Harvey/Rio/Frimpong.

*looks at notes*

It says here that he’s scored 59 goals and had 37 assists in the last 2 years.

I think you may need to have a wee think about your definition of “productive”.

 

[KopRed]

Why not just address the post instead of a hyperbolic teenage strop?

I quoted you and responded to you calling Froggy’s point about having more defensive / attacking balance on the right without Salah at times as a ‘crazy theory’. It’s obviously not. There is a better potential defensive / attacking balance to be had on the right side, obviously, given our system is skewed towards relieving Salah of defensive duties - as per both Mo and Slot.

I then used the example from Monday’s game that Szobo’s attacking end product in the game was obvious at the end even though he moved into midfield for the last quarter of the game and had he started at right wing he’d offered a lot more defensively than Salah, of course. Again there is a better potential defensive / attacking balance than Mo offers us.

There’s an argument to be had that Salah’s decline isn’t yet anywhere near obvious or sustained to warrant benching him, of course, but that’s not the same as dismissing any overall consideration of a below par or decline in Salah on the overall balance or effectiveness of the team, especially when we’re fielding a makeshift right back away from home against fired up rivals.

And if you don’t think that the coaching staff think there’s a case to think about these things after a messy defensive start to the season despite ‘6 points in 6’ then fuck knows why you’re on a football forum debating these things.

The premise of my original post #66 is,

"We would have gotten only 2 points if Salah was not on the pitch. The deft cross to Jones which ended up in the sky and then Chiesa. The pass to Rio."

That wasn't disputed because it's ACTUALLY what had happened and yet you guys have gone on and on about replacing Salah and what not which I obviously disagree with based on my original post.

I want Salah on the pitch even when he is playing badly because he is the difference maker as proven again and again over 9-10 seasons. It's as simple as that.

 

[binomial]

*looks at notes*

It says here that he’s scored 59 goals and had 37 assists in the last 2 years.

I think you may need to have a wee think about your definition of “productive”.

FOR A FULL NINETY.

Ffs it takes you the best part of an hour to notice the cunts playing and even then the first contribution more often than not results in a "Fuck off Mo" from about 5 people in the match thread.