There are a number of problems and those are two of them. It's fucking absurd to think you need to pick a side.
Salah is the easiest one to fix, because he's finished and shouldn't be here anyway.
Mo Salah 2025/26 Season
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There are a number of problems and those are two of them. It's fucking absurd to think you need to pick a side.
Salah is the easiest one to fix, because he's finished and shouldn't be here anyway.
WTF are you smoking ?!
He's not being thrown under the bus.
You are parroting his stupid talking point.
We need to fix this side. He's not part of that. He had a third of a season to show he's still got it and he's been fucking horrible. We can't play off the ball with him in the side. We can sell him. It's not a hard decision. It's just sensible business after some really stupid business.
Is he feck finished..
You probably complained about Gary McAllister when we signed him at 35. ?
The system is broken, not Salah.
It so flaming obvious.
If it was just Salah that was shite I'd agree. But it isn't. The whole squad is with the exception of a few players.
That points to how they are being coached and managed
It disrespectful to Salah giving everything he had achieved at this club..
He is the Scapegoat, for sure..
It may not be coming from slot, it probably coming from the Top..
But the problem with the team is Slot and his coaching team.
We are bloody awful to watch with or without Salah, and can't play off the ball with or without him..
You probably complained about Gary McAllister when we signed him at 35. ?
The system is broken, not Salah.
It so flaming obvious.
If it was just Salah that was shite I'd agree. But it isn't. The whole squad is with the exception of a few players.
That points to how they are being coached and managed
It disrespectful to Salah giving everything he had achieved at this club..
He is the Scapegoat, for sure..
It may not be coming from slot, it probably coming from the Top..
But the problem with the team is Slot and his coaching team.
We are bloody awful to watch with or without Salah, and can't play off the ball with or without him..
He’s finished as a marauding winger that scores goals.
He doesn’t have the skill set or playing style of McAllister.
The Klopp system is broken. The Slot system is shit.
It’s disrespectful to LFC for doing a 7 min rant on TV.
Would be nice if it was down to one player but don't think so, we will soon find out if Slot recovers his magic touch missing since Feb last year. If it was one down to petulant players, how come wasn't the case during bulk of last season?
I don't personally think Mo is finished. He's never going to get to the heights of last season, but he's still got something to offer.
I think objectively, if we are going to carry a passenger defensively, he's more effective than Flo right now, and more effective than Isak.
Unfortunately, those two are our future.
I think we we want to get the best out of Mo, he can no longer play as an out and out winger. He's gotta be moved as an inside forward.
The only formation that can handle this is a 3-4-3,
Where Flo and Mo are behind an Ekitike/Isak.
Midfield, with wing backs, could be Kerkez - Macca - Szobo - Frimpong.
Centrebacks, Virgil, Gravy, Konate.
I'm not sure Slot has ever played this, but if we were to get a Glasner, I think he'd move us towards this direction immediately (and probably bring in Guehi too).
I think objectively, if we are going to carry a passenger defensively, he's more effective than Flo right now, and more effective than Isak.
Unfortunately, those two are our future.
I think we we want to get the best out of Mo, he can no longer play as an out and out winger. He's gotta be moved as an inside forward.
The only formation that can handle this is a 3-4-3,
Where Flo and Mo are behind an Ekitike/Isak.
Midfield, with wing backs, could be Kerkez - Macca - Szobo - Frimpong.
Centrebacks, Virgil, Gravy, Konate.
I'm not sure Slot has ever played this, but if we were to get a Glasner, I think he'd move us towards this direction immediately (and probably bring in Guehi too).
He scores goals. He would do well playing as striker, for sure.
An expensive striker off the bench mind.
But fucking hell. This is his first run of bad form and it coincides with shite tactics from Slot.
Have you seen how shit we have been playing since Plymouth game last season.. ?
This is not on Salah. It on the coaching staff and whoever was responsible for deciding to lay a stupid amount of money on 3 players that all want to play central..
But hey Gakpo will start again tomorrow and all will be well with the world... Not..
Have a fucking word with yourselves guys..
3-4-3
Shudders.
That was BR last roll of the dice and that didn't end well at all..
Look the Right had side is fucked. And it absolutely needs addressing.
I was kinda joking…
This isn't his first run of bad form. He has had several over recent years. They've been getting longer and longer. This one stretches back to march!
I'd have no problem if he was being paid Gary Mcallister wages and playing McAllister cameo roles. He's not willing to do that. And that's fine. That's up to him. He wants to play every minute of every game. To do that, he'll have to play somewhere else, in a different league.
Slot played him, again, and again, and again, while he was fucking shit. During this time he's moved Szobo around to three different positions, he's dropped an in form Tekkers, dropped Wirtz, subbed Gakpo at half time etc. etc. Salah had NOTHING to say while he was immune to any of this and anyone with functioning eyes was begging for something else.
We kicked a number of cans down the road, and one of them was allowing Salah to stay too long at the party, while changing the entire forward line, I'll agree with you there. But the only way out of it is the way we are taking, because he's not just NOT contributing, he actively worsens our side, and he's not part of the future. This isn't complicated. He's too fucking slow.
I'd have no problem if he was being paid Gary Mcallister wages and playing McAllister cameo roles. He's not willing to do that. And that's fine. That's up to him. He wants to play every minute of every game. To do that, he'll have to play somewhere else, in a different league.
Slot played him, again, and again, and again, while he was fucking shit. During this time he's moved Szobo around to three different positions, he's dropped an in form Tekkers, dropped Wirtz, subbed Gakpo at half time etc. etc. Salah had NOTHING to say while he was immune to any of this and anyone with functioning eyes was begging for something else.
We kicked a number of cans down the road, and one of them was allowing Salah to stay too long at the party, while changing the entire forward line, I'll agree with you there. But the only way out of it is the way we are taking, because he's not just NOT contributing, he actively worsens our side, and he's not part of the future. This isn't complicated. He's too fucking slow.
Except he can’t play as a striker, he doesn’t press, he doesn’t track back, he score goals but he needs to do more than that.
As we’ve already agreed Slot system is shit so I don’t need to look back to Plymouth.
Gakpo hasn’t flown to Italy so he won’t start.
Rather than blind loyalty, you should look at what’s happening.
Salah is shit, and a bellend. So he can fuck off. It's not that complicated.
He’s finished as the player he was.
I thought he could play more central and deeper and be a creator rather than a goalscorer, like Kenny and John Barnes kind of did. Mo does have a good pass on him and decent vision
But he would need to drop the ego, prove he can play this new role and accept rotation.
His outburst shows he doesn’t have any of the introspection needed to change
So
he's lacking pace for a winger
he's lacking the passing skills (which may come back)
his touch has gone gash
he doesn't press
he doesn't track back..
He doesn't want to be an impact squaddie..(ego)
Apart from being a legend an a drama queen, what does the current 2025-2026 Mo Salah offer this team?
he's lacking pace for a winger
he's lacking the passing skills (which may come back)
his touch has gone gash
he doesn't press
he doesn't track back..
He doesn't want to be an impact squaddie..(ego)
Apart from being a legend an a drama queen, what does the current 2025-2026 Mo Salah offer this team?
I think most, if not all, of those things were always true. What he used to offer was loads of goals and assists. Now, for whatever reason he's not, so it's 100% right to bench him, unless we figure out a way to get him back doing that.
That's outside of this outburst, which should absolutely see him spend even more time on the bench or at home.
He offers to be the Liverpool equivalent of Harry Kane.
It doesn’t matter if the fault is 100% on Slot. We absolutely cannot have a player attack management in public and get away with it. It just does not happen.
The precedent we set will be horrible. Not a single self respecting young manager will touch us.
Salah’s outburst has bought Slot more time.
How has the club made him a scapegoat? He’s been shit and dropped for a week. Them spits his dummy out.
I’ve not scapegoated him because myself and many, many others on here have called lots of our team fucking shit and need fucking kerbing. They aren’t even trying or concentrating half the time and that is the bare minimum we want.
I’ve not scapegoated him because myself and many, many others on here have called lots of our team fucking shit and need fucking kerbing. They aren’t even trying or concentrating half the time and that is the bare minimum we want.
So Stevie G coming out and saying Rafa wanted to cash in on him, back in the days when Chelsea tapped him up was all fine a dandy then ?
When Mo talks of 'broken promises', do people think he was promised he'd be a starter?
I just get that impression with Isak, Wirtz, Kerkez. It really surprised me Kerkez in particular going straight in, despite Robbos being fairly poor last season.
Maybe player power meant Hughes had to sell them our project, so they were told they would be starters when our strength last season was that we had two players for every position and players knew they had to deliver to stay in the team.
I just get that impression with Isak, Wirtz, Kerkez. It really surprised me Kerkez in particular going straight in, despite Robbos being fairly poor last season.
Maybe player power meant Hughes had to sell them our project, so they were told they would be starters when our strength last season was that we had two players for every position and players knew they had to deliver to stay in the team.
Because the likes of Gakpo and Konate continue to be played week in week out..
So yeh I totally can get that notion of being Scapegoated..
There an option that we have all Been screaming out for when it comes to replacing Gakpo.
I mean you can even pay Ektike on the left if you needed to.
But instead the Bald Fraud sticks with Gakpo and of course Konate..
We saw how stubborn he was last season with his selection.. so there really is no suprise..
Gakpo has been dropped and taken off. Konate can’t come off because we didn’t buy another centre half.
The club has not said anything about him being the reason we under performing. Had they done that then that is scapegoating.
The club has not said anything about him being the reason we under performing. Had they done that then that is scapegoating.
When the ducking hell as has Gakpo being dropped for under performing ?
He underperformed pretty much all season with the odd 1 or 2 exceptions
Gomez is an adequate replacement at CB. But Slot philosophy is if they don't play often, the don't get picked..
Elliot, Chiesa case and point..
He is not a fan of rotation.. which really didn't help us towards the end of last season..
Endo may as well bring his pillow and have a kip..
The 'Diaz' replacement the young kid.. may as well do the same..
Salah should have shut his gob.
Quiet absence would have got the supporters behind him sooner or later. He could have quietly gone to African cup and come back to see what Slot's been upto during that time.
He only had to bite his tongue and wait a week more to Dec-15. Worst case he could have said good bye on good terms - when he is back in Jan.
I wonder which moron is advising him.
This is not really defensible from any point of view. He may feel that Slot is putting him under the bus rightly or wrongly, but he had no right to derail the team's morale like that.
Quiet absence would have got the supporters behind him sooner or later. He could have quietly gone to African cup and come back to see what Slot's been upto during that time.
He only had to bite his tongue and wait a week more to Dec-15. Worst case he could have said good bye on good terms - when he is back in Jan.
I wonder which moron is advising him.
This is not really defensible from any point of view. He may feel that Slot is putting him under the bus rightly or wrongly, but he had no right to derail the team's morale like that.
What Morale, exactly.. it's on the floor as it is.. ?
I say there is likely a small contingent of players within the squad that likely feel the same as Salah does..
