So you are wound up, lol
Mo Salah 2025/26 Season
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Agree with all of that except Salah is given free rein from defending by Slot. Therefore, the main problem is Slot insisting on playing him. So frustrating, he can't even sub him off!
There is little proof that the team is better without Mo and that we have someone capable to replace him adequately. It's not like Slot didn't try. The 2 matches Mo didn't start we lost to Gala and Palace without scoring a single goal.
Sure by all accounts Mo is not blameless in our downward spiral but there isn't anyone truly screaming out to be included in place of him. Anything else is just hit and hope.
Sure by all accounts Mo is not blameless in our downward spiral but there isn't anyone truly screaming out to be included in place of him. Anything else is just hit and hope.
Im not so sure if its a simple matter of growing a pair and dropping him. It is a massive over simplification and extrapolation. If indeed that is the case then the main problem is that not Salah.
Anyway as you say its not that far away - the AFCON induced Salah break. Im not really going to get drawn into a discussion on whether he is the main problem or only problem. He needs to improve, so do a lot of others including Slot - this is the long and short of it for me.
Wait what? He didn't start against Palace?!
I think you need to double check that
0-3 against Palace at home. Where none of Chiesa or Nguomha or whoever that was usually warming the bench made an impression whatsoever.
Weird way to twist it around for someone who had been harbouring an irrational hatred for our top goal scorer in 9 seasons.
The proof is the five minutes frimpong was on against manure when he beat Salah's 85 minutes of stats for both beating his defender and finding his man.
Wow you really went there...
Frimpong started against Gala with the rest of the first teamers. Salah didn't start.
We lost 1-0. It was Galatasaray.
So what's next?
Evidence from actual games versus countless unproven theories which are made on hindsight. I know what I'll rather believe in.
You're being disingenuous.
Why would you not bring up the games we won where Mo didn't start? Like Frankfurt? Or Southampton?
Palace cup game doesn't count, as you know, because we played 2 first team players, go check the league or the community shield games. Gala we lost to a pen that was never a pen in a million years, he came on for the last half hour and had no impact.
The only time we've played a run without Mo in the side was during/after AFCON in 23/24, we won 10, drew 1 and lost 1.
Evidence from many actual games this season is Mo can’t cut it anymore. Why do you ignore that?
Did you even have to point this out ? He totally invalidated whatever point he was trying to make by mentioning that Palace game.
How about Barca at home, where was Salah?
And also where was Salah the in every final we've played since he joined?
What's the difference at the end of the day? When Salah started and we won against Real, there was no mention of him contributing in a winning team. That was followed up by City, where we lost and suddenly Salah is to be wholly blamed for the defeat.
For the record, I am not saying Salah isn't accountable for his poor performances, but he is being made the scapegoat and most of the time, the entire cause of our losses when he is not the only one who had been underperforming.
It must have hurt whenever Salah scored a goal didn't it. And he has scored LOADS of them.
Wierd superfan.
The difference could be between losing 6 out of 7 and not losing 6 out of 7.
Salah is only capable of looking half the player he was when the rest of the team are helping to carry his lazy arse, Madrid probably being the one and only prime example, Bradley stopping Vini and Mbappe in their tracks almost single handedly.
Mo has looked average to shit in every other game this season, and you clearly haven't been paying much attention to what's said of Ibou, Mac, Kerkez, Wirtz, Jones etc if you think he's a victim of "scapegoating"
Once again, I am not saying he isn't underperforming. But is he the cause of all our problems? That's also a no.
Arguably, the team has relied on his brilliance for far too long in the past many seasons and when he is finally not cutting it, no one else has.
To me, it is a team issue, not an ONLY Salah issue.
@KopRed here's your bloody difference:
View: https://x.com/AnfieldRd96/status/1979954924986220926?s=20
That there was the difference between being down 1 or equalising.
Right choice by Salah. Let's get back to wanking.
View: https://x.com/AnfieldRd96/status/1979954924986220926?s=20
That there was the difference between being down 1 or equalising.
Right choice by Salah. Let's get back to wanking.
Well you and many others have made it sound like once Mo is dropped, we will magically become better / start winning.
I am just providing evidence of some actual games we have played when Salah wasn't on the pitch and we had fired blanks regardless.
And you are sticking your head in the sand and not seeing the issues on our right-hand side caused by accommodating Mo
And Gakpo missed from close range. Where's the crucifix for him if we are basing things on one instance.
The United game we have tried, we weren't fully functioning but we had some heart and effort.
The City game was absymal, when the team isn't trying, I lose my faith in the manager. Salah is just one of the many players that are not performing, for whatever reasons.
Salah isn't an asset we can just ignore. He is here to stay, at least for this season so deal with it. Sure, we can drop him, by all means but it does not necessarily mean the results will improve if we have no other proven goalscorers. And we don't as of now.
It is Slot's job to get the best out of the team and I truly believe he needs to get the best out of one of Salah / Isak, the guaranteed goalscorers, if we are to get anything out the season. Failing which he will likely be gone long before Salah.
Slots job is also to bench him when he's shite.
I look forward to your posts about how brilliant are once Salah is either in Afcon or not playing. Maybe can get the old gang back together with Bobby and Mane, that should fix it.
