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Mo Salah 2025/26 Season

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ibromurph said:
I'm not worried about Salah's wages. If we want to sell him, it's an easy sale to Saudi. They'd pay up the remainder of his contract and some.

The reason why people are getting on Salah is because we're making all these sacrifices in the system to cover for his defensive cheating. We all acknowledged it last season; Salah himself said it and that he spoke to Slot about conserving energy. Cucurella acknowledged it yesterday. Everyone knows how we play and our weakness to be overloaoded down the right flank. That's fine, but then when he gets the ball, he simply has to punish Chelsea to make all that sacrifice worth it.

Yesterday we made ALL that sacrifice for HIM to be in front of goal. And he failed us when it mattered.

1) Wirtz gave him a good chance at the start of the 2nd half. We take all that risk for him to score.
2) Wirtz put him through on goal, probably hint of offside, but still, he was through and he blazed over.

Last season one of these, if not, both of these moments he scores or assists and the rest of his performance is glossed over because we win.
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Our system cannot work if Salah isn't doing what he did last year.
His pace? still good but he's lost yet another step.
Cannot beat players easily - which means the defense never has to cheat to his side.
Very wasteful passer when it comes to easy passes ... but my oh my does he have some outrageously beautiful passes which I don't think many make in our team.
Is this a blip? Is father time catching up to him?
I don't know what the answer is, but unless it changes fast, the system *has* to adjust to the reality and I'm not sure if Mo works as well in that as an automatic starter/90 minute player.
 
LeTallecWiz said:
Our system cannot work if Salah isn't doing what he did last year.
His pace? still good but he's not lost a step.
Cannot beat players easily - which means the defense never has to cheat to his side.
Very wasteful passer when it comes to easy passes ... but my oh my does he have some outrageously beautiful passes which I don't think many make in our team.
Is this a blip? Is father time catching up to him?
I don't know what the answer is, but unless it changes fast, the system *has* to adjust to the reality and I'm not sure if Mo works as well in that as an automatic starter/90 minute player.
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He's a 90min player in the Italian league. Maybe Spain. But not the PL.

Right now, if we ask him to help out defensively:

1) He probably won't help out much/that good
2) He's even less effective going forward
3) There's no way he's an outlet to release pressure; he can't carry the ball distance
4) He will probably be able to play 70mins max
5) Who is going to play RW that gives us quality both ways?

We kind of have to hope this is a blip, because realistically yesterday game was actually a good Slot team performance. We had enough chances/openings to win. Last year, we would have. But last year, Salah/the team were ruthless.
 
It's what I thought and feared two years ago. But he kept scoring so I eventually shrugged and admitted I know nothing.

But it definitely looks like the game has caught up with him this year.

Can forgive needing time to build chemistry with the new players. Can't forgive the inability to do the basics of an attacking player who has no defensive responsibility.
 
Number21 said:
Paying Salah 20 million a year in wages isn't an issue. The issue is how bad he is on the pitch.

The fee from Saudi next summer will be 5 x that 20 million & fund his replacement. Olise by the looks of it.

If we had let Salah go last summer we'd have got nothing so it was in the clubs financial interests to pay Salah that money. Only if he's sold next summer though.
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Why would anyone sign him watching what we are watching?
 
rubans said:
Salah will be fine, someone will give him a game. More worried about where we are as a team last 9 months.
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Do you agree that our team's *set up* is currently a large part of the issue?
A set up that Slot said was (rightly) done to maximize our best attacking talent?
If that's the case, why are you confident Salah will be fine?
Because for him to be fine imo, the set up *has* to stay as is, and that means the issues we've seen won't go away (and if he does what he did last year, who cares really as we'll win a cup or two again)
 
LeTallecWiz said:
Do you agree that our team's *set up* is currently a large part of the issue?
A set up that Slot said was (rightly) done to maximize our best attacking talent?
If that's the case, why are you confident Salah will be fine?
Because for him to be fine imo, the set up *has* to stay as is, and that means the issues we've seen won't go away (and if he does what he did last year, who cares really as we'll win a cup or two again)
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No, I already said this before to you in another thread 🙂
I meant about if Salah had to move on and whom will have him. Plenty shall take him on.

I think it’s part of the issue is compensation but don’t get this logic if he didn’t play that won’t change. It will need to surely, others will need to contribute and take responsbility. I don’t see if we have such a good squad, why it won’t change?
 
Frogfish said:
Here's a heads up for you - nothing we say on here will help us one bit ! So we do what forums do - discuss what ifs.
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Well, I'll rather discuss about what we should do with what we have, then to hear another pompous "I told you so" if that's clear enough for you.
 
rubans said:
No, I already said this before to you in another thread 🙂
I meant about if Salah had to move on and whom will have him. Plenty shall take him on.

I think it’s part of the issue is compensation but don’t get this logic if he didn’t play that won’t change. It will need to surely, others will need to contribute and take responsbility. I don’t see if we have such a good squad, why it won’t change?
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My memory is shit nowadays - sorry.
I don't know where Salah would want to play - but I think his next position would be similar to what it was as he started his ascension in Italy (a striker basically).
I don't know how good our squad is but we'll find out regardless in the coming months as the ship rocks (& hopefully steadies).
 
KopRed said:
Well, I'll rather discuss about what we should do with what we have, then to hear another pompous "I told you so" if that's clear enough for you.
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Plenty of threads for that - this is the Mo Salah thread - so maybe you should go dig your head in the sand in another one.
 
I would be satisfied if we just subbed him when it isn’t working.

He has had a couple of games this season when he started well and was dangerous throughout, but if he plays a shit first half, it never seems to get better. He might still get a goal or assist even after giving the ball away 10 more times, but if have others on the bench that can provide a goal or assist as well.
 
Alluding to the above about Salah being our best attacking talent. He isn't anymore, Isak is.

Slot needs to realise that if he hasn't already.
 
Isak has played every game since been back and really not looked much like doing much, is Salah now stopping him somehow? Isak’s just been crap and after int break, he would be out of excuses and fitness won’t be an excuse. Isak has to earn the right to be called the best in same way we expected Nunez to be.
 
Isak is suffering from the same thing Jota did.
He's not being fed chances the way he was in Newcastle.
 
Modo said:
Exactly, that's the thing. He was forced to because he wasn't getting anything from the wings or Szobo who can't play a through ball to save his life
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Well Isak can't create chances then we are stuffed as two biggest creators were Salah and Trent. Are you seriously saying we have brought a 125m who needs his dedicated supply line?
 
rubans said:
Well Isak can't create chances then we are stuffed as two biggest creators were Salah and Trent. Are you seriously saying we have brought a 125m who needs his dedicated supply line?
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Nah, I'm not saying that, but we can't expect him to be Ronaldo fenomeno and do everything himself. Did you notice how many times during the last game he was in the box waving for Salah or Gakpo to cross the ball?
 
Modo said:
Nah, I'm not saying that, but we can't expect him to be Ronaldo fenomeno and do everything himself. Did you notice how many times during the last game he was in the box waving for Salah or Gakpo to cross the ball?
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Was one I remember but he does seem to stand and wave a lot which I find just as annoying, he seems so far unsuited to our intended style of play. Also, how the fck did we pay 125m for a player they choose to apparently deem unfit by not playing for 6 weeks. We should have asked for a discount based on that account.
 
rubans said:
Was one I remember but he does seem to stand and wave a lot which I find just as annoying, he seems so far unsuited to our intended style of play. Also, how the fck did we pay 125m for a player they choose to apparently deem unfit by not playing for 6 weeks. We should have asked for a discount based on that account.
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Well that's what he's used to, he was Newcastle's main outlet. At LFC, both Salah and Gakpo want food too.
 
Modo said:
Nah, I'm not saying that, but we can't expect him to be Ronaldo fenomeno and do everything himself. Did you notice how many times during the last game he was in the box waving for Salah or Gakpo to cross the ball?
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For £130 million I expect R9!
 
Modo said:
Well that's what he's used to, he was Newcastle's main outlet. At LFC, both Salah and Gakpo want food too.
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This aint a small time Geordie club or any of his previous clubs where there wasn't any competition. He will have that here but also in theory some of the finest creators whom currently aren't creating so he has to do better himself with build up play. Did he not header over from a Salah setup yesterday? There were also couple of times where he failed to win headers in build up for knock downs, ideally that isn't our game but he is 6ft 5 something right? Should he not be winning headers? I don't yet see still what his attributes are for a top club but I'm sure the data nerds do as we were desperate to get this one done.
 
rubans said:
This aint a small time Geordie club or any of his previous clubs where there wasn't any competition. He will have that here but also in theory some of the finest creators whom currently aren't creating so he has to do better himself with build up play. Did he not header over from a Salah setup yesterday? There were also couple of times where he failed to win headers in build up for knock downs, ideally that isn't our game but he is 6ft 5 something right? Should he not be winning headers? I don't yet see still what his attributes are for a top club but I'm sure the data nerds do as we were desperate to get this one done.
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What Isak is good at is making runs, finding space and finishing. He's just a very smart player. Heading? Did you see him during the medical. Dude is built like McMoneyman
 
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