Mo Salah 2025/26 Season
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That is an ahistorical question, and I don't agree.
A lot of the positivity expressed about Mo's humble beginnings and later as a positive role model have been eroded as he's shown himself to be narcissistic and entitled.
Of course this can be reversed by simply doing the right thing in private at the club. In my opinion he needs to make clear he accepts he is part of the squad and is picked entirely on merit and is ready to play as directed for the benefit of the team.
There does not need to be any public announcements from him or the club save direct questions to the coach during pressers.
Of course this can be reversed by simply doing the right thing in private at the club. In my opinion he needs to make clear he accepts he is part of the squad and is picked entirely on merit and is ready to play as directed for the benefit of the team.
There does not need to be any public announcements from him or the club save direct questions to the coach during pressers.
Can we please just sell him and move on?
There's nothing sadder than an old queen.
There's nothing sadder than an old queen.
Nah, if we move on then he deserves a good send off. Don't agree with this narrative to dump and run after 10yrs with any player, this is LFC and he ain't killed anyone. We have great relationships with ex players even ones like Torres who left under a massive cloud but reconciled. It isn't so bad we can't let the man leave with a proper send off.
Unless it’s Michael Owen
How dare you? that is the LFC International Ambassador you are talking about
Im fine with him getting a good send off but it's a very secondary concern that is stylistic essentially.
I'm talking about how we should protect our interests.
Of course you don’t, you think we should have sold him 🤣
Stevie G clearly hasn’t a clue saying Mo Salah is our best goalscorer and we need back in the team.
What an idiot.
What an idiot.
Well luckily we can apply the Curtis Jones affect and one good game with a goal can put right back to the unstoppable category.
It's so fucking boring. All these dumb fucks in the media "Liverpool need Salah back to his best" bla bla bla.
That's not going to fucking happen you quacking morons. He's shit now, and fucking lazy, and a petulant wanker too. There's only one remotely rational course of action left.
Mate, I'm not trying to be a dick because despite our disagreements here/elsewhere, I think you're a solid oak ... but you rip Carra's for his short comings as a person and then you ignore them for Stevie?
Fair question and not ignoring them but he doesn't often put the boot in with any of the past players without a bit of consideration? he's taken his time to come out with a response and not like Carra who's done about 2 long interviews on multiple channels before Gerrard already given his view. For a fact, he was better captain than Carra too.
Do I think Carra is a worser human being than Stevie G? can't quiet bother getting into that discussion. Some of the comments on here about those ready to burn a player for 1 1/2 stupid interviews in 10yrs versus some of the defending and while eulogizing certain other Striker gets in terms of excusing constant bad behavior in the past. We aren't totally impartial and hope you won't mind me saying looking at your previous posts, you aren't either 🙂
I actually heard Stevie's comments and I feel as 'connected' to them as I was to Henry's (Theirry, not the owner).
I'm going to strongly assume Salah was advised terribly here - as he's a business man at the end of the day and though I think he values "Salah" over Liverpool (which is fine, Ronaldo is the same thing etc), I don't think he'd want to fucking piss off the fans that way.
Let's see what happens at Brighton - I'd still like him to be a part of the squad that wins #7 and finishes top 4 before moving on in a more dignified, deserving manners.
What we need to do medium and long term is build a team that doesn't include salah.
Short term Salah either needs to be in a purple patch or get out of the way. Instead he's not. He's not even a good premier league forward at the moment.
I genuinely don't think anyone was bullshitting him about what his role would be this year. I just think we fucked up, predictably so, in our incomings. During this summer many people were wondering, well, these players are good, but how do you fit them all into a team with Salah.
Now we know you don't, you can't, and the destabilization of the team attempting to fix that unsolvable problem, while he was given all the time in the world to find form, has lead to the team completely breaking down. The more safety first approach that we are now sensibly taking to try to climb out of the shit is even less likely to have his involvement.
That's not some machievalian manipulation, it's just some difficult decisions not going right, and Salah failing to find any form. This is the worst he's ever been for us, and he's too old. Any time we spend trying to figure out how he can work for us is wasted, even in the short term, because he's off for afcon. If he wanted to figure out how he could work for us, that'd be neat, but I don't think it would change much. The fact that he can't face his own decline makes our future actions so easy, now did we provoke his reaction intentionally because we want to get rid? I doubt very much that slot did, the risk he's be taking under the immense pressure he's under would be insane. Edwards/Hughes? It's definitely a possible read, it'd be neat if they did, it would suggest they might actually be capable of intelligent ruthless decisions.
I wouldn’t hold my breath. Last league goal was 6 weeks ago. 0,04 xG in his 45 mins against Sunderland.
At this point just an average performance would be a step up for him.
i hope this whole saga ends soon. i like mo and respect what he had achieved at club. But these things should discuss inside within management or manager. while coming out and throwing the statements doesnt change anything and its not what liverpool club is.
the situation right now is very different we dont know how long slot continue , so if mo had issue with slot means he should take decision accordingly,
the best we do is sell mo in jan if this fiasco continues.
but we respect u mo for what u achieved at club
we are liverpool fans.
the situation right now is very different we dont know how long slot continue , so if mo had issue with slot means he should take decision accordingly,
the best we do is sell mo in jan if this fiasco continues.
but we respect u mo for what u achieved at club
we are liverpool fans.
Philip Rivers has re-signed with the Colts. Anything is possible in 2025.
Torres can fuck off as well.
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While I will not defend Salah's comments at all and have been advocating for him to have reduced playing time, I do think the club probably had a plan to sell Salah this summer. Last year, he would have walked on a free. This year they decided to pay him what he wanted knowing that a repeat in form was statistically unlikely, but that clubs would still be happy to pay a lot for him with a year left.
Others say his huge contract will prevent many clubs from being interested. I am not so sure, as it is only a huge contract for 18 more months, not 5 years.
So, maybe we sell now instead of the summer. I am okay with that and think we will overall make money of what we have paid him so far this year and much more.
Others say his huge contract will prevent many clubs from being interested. I am not so sure, as it is only a huge contract for 18 more months, not 5 years.
So, maybe we sell now instead of the summer. I am okay with that and think we will overall make money of what we have paid him so far this year and much more.
I thought that Slot/the club handled Mo's comments fairly well, pointing to his omission from the Inter travelling party as his/their response to Mo. A disciplinary issue, nothing more, nothing less.
So I'm amazed that Slot's hit back at Mo publicly with comments to Seedorf after the Inter match: "Does the player think he's made a mistake as well?" suggesting that for Slot, at least, the issue isn't closed and it's become personal for him too.
On the one hand, you have one of our greatest players of the PL era, who's had seven good to great seasons, and won it all for the club, and was punished for a moment of indiscipline. On the other, a manager who's so full of hubris he's comfortable continuing to play out this drama in the media. I don't get it. Because he won the title last season? Lest it be forgotten, so did Mo. Because he beat Inter? We've been there before, when we beat Villa and Madrid earlier. Some winning streak that was.
Let's be clear, Mo was wrong and he hasn't been playing well and was probably deservedly dropped - but Slot has gotten lucky because in the midst of the outrage at Mo's narcissism, it seems to have been forgotten that Mo's decline can be traced to Slot's system which has arguably failed to draw the best out of a majority of the players in the squad this season. For him to make these comments after Inter, in my opinion, is just classless.
So I'm amazed that Slot's hit back at Mo publicly with comments to Seedorf after the Inter match: "Does the player think he's made a mistake as well?" suggesting that for Slot, at least, the issue isn't closed and it's become personal for him too.
On the one hand, you have one of our greatest players of the PL era, who's had seven good to great seasons, and won it all for the club, and was punished for a moment of indiscipline. On the other, a manager who's so full of hubris he's comfortable continuing to play out this drama in the media. I don't get it. Because he won the title last season? Lest it be forgotten, so did Mo. Because he beat Inter? We've been there before, when we beat Villa and Madrid earlier. Some winning streak that was.
Let's be clear, Mo was wrong and he hasn't been playing well and was probably deservedly dropped - but Slot has gotten lucky because in the midst of the outrage at Mo's narcissism, it seems to have been forgotten that Mo's decline can be traced to Slot's system which has arguably failed to draw the best out of a majority of the players in the squad this season. For him to make these comments after Inter, in my opinion, is just classless.
I think Slot has definitely failed to get the best out of his players, and I do think that Salah has had fewer touches because we aren´t performing well, but he´s one of those players that isn´t particularly helpful when your team aren´t performing.
That said, I just don´t think that Slot has a lot to do with Salah´s horrible form. Firstly because we were playing exactly to his strengths for months and months, he just wasn´t doing anything with the ball anymore, stretching back into last season. Secondly because this has happened increasingly, every season, where his form falls off a cliff. Lastly because it´s what he is doing on the ball that is shit. He will get the ball in good positions and lose it, he has horrible touches on the ball, his passing is off etc. This is all shit we´ve seen before, it´s just now there´s more of it, and it´s worse.
I cannot overstate how much Salah is hampered by having less and less pace. It is a huge part of why he gets bullied right when receiving a ball. It was absolutely fatal to get stranded high on the pitch 1v1 vs salah before, he´d roll you and then you were fucked. Now it´s just exactly what you should do, and you can negate him 1v1. Also, if you go high and there´s a ball behind, there´s zero issue just recovering to win it. He will NOT beat you on the ball.
At some point, his bad form was just going to become his form, more rather than less. He´s just a fire flickering out.
