Mo Salah 2025/26 Season

[jan]

I have plenty of sympathy for Mo, whether coping with Jota's loss or Mo's own fading battle with Father Time. I will always revere him as a legend of this club and one of its finest ever players.

It's also beyond debate that he is not, on current form, deserving of a guaranteed places in the starting eleven. He's not the only reason why we've struggled this season but he's one of the main ones.

He needs to be given a chance to play himself back into form but it may need to be from the bench. We can't afford to start each game with ten men just to assuage his ego or because he's been a world class player in previous seasons.

These are my exact thoughts too but these days it's way more fashionable to either cum in your own mouth when he plays like shit to fit the told-you-so agenda or just be a dreamy mcdnw

 

[mbas9898]

Great goal today despite the loss. People are acting like Salah’s to blame for us conceding three goals tonight. Our defence has been terrible for a while now. If it wasn’t, one or two goals would’ve been enough to win most games.

 

[Dreambeliever]

I just had a look. In his last 20 league games, he's scored 4 non penalty goals.

So we are getting a 1/5 forward who doesn't track back, and we are paying him as though he is one of the best in the world.

There are a number of players who don't look even remotely threatening or sharp, at any point, and we started with two of them today in Isak and Salah. They aren't fucking on it. I've got no idea how to play this team into form, but I know two players who should be fighting their way back into this team from the bench.

Yet he scored a goal that nobody else arguably could.

Plus in those 20 games he’s also grabbed assists and created heaps of chances. He’s definitely not finishing like last season atm but he’s not the reason we are unconvincing imo. It’s multifaceted.

 

[Dreambeliever]

Jota’s death affected the whole squad, no doubt. But I don’t see how it specifically impacted Salah more than others. Jota wasn’t even that close to him from what I've seen and read. The three players who were genuinely close to Jota were Robbo, Kelleher and Ali. Robbo and Kelleher even attended his wedding. If anyone should be particularly affected, it’s them. All three of them showed up in either his funeral or the wake. Salah didn't.
Using Jota’s death as an excuse for Salah’s form feels like a cop-out, especially considering his poor run started long before Jota passed away.

Apparently it was him who convinced Klopp to sign him.

 

[Dreambeliever]

I don't think the drop off we saw at the tail end of last season can simply be explained away by "nothing to play for". I might be wrong but I don't recall playing like shit and losing being a noticeable feature of many title winners. Either way, it shouldn't be accepted.

As for Salah, I think there are two sides to the situation right now.

On the one hand, we've got one of our all-time greats who contributed to massively to one of our best periods in a long time and for many younger folk, the best they've seen.

On the other, we've got a player that by all accounts we had to fight quite hard to keep (basically empty our wallet). At the moment, that is feeling like a very one sided transaction. You can argue that the game is the game and he's looking out for himself but then... if we're treating it as just business, that goes both ways.

Alan Hansen recalls a season where we were unbeaten and once we won the league didn’t win again for the rest of the season. It’s perfectly normal vs abnormal for teams to relax and lose their edge. Salah was devastated that we lost to PSG, he knew the Ballon Dor was gone then.

His merchandise and marketing value will never make it a one sided transaction regardless of his in field performance.

 

[localny]

Yet he scored a goal that nobody else arguably could.

Plus in those 20 games he’s also grabbed assists and created heaps of chances. He’s definitely not finishing like last season atm but he’s not the reason we are unconvincing imo. It’s multifaceted.

That one goal today in no way justifies the past several games, where he has been absolutely off the pace. His shooting is beyond bad, his lack of awareness for passing is telling.

And then there’s the fact that he’s not creating for the team either. We just cannot carry a man anymore.