Mo Salah 2025/26 Season
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It's a stupid fucking point though. Everyone knows he has ALWAYS been like that. It's been an issue at times because our right flank with him and Trent (and now others) has always been perceived as weak, but the pros outweighed the cons, it's a moot point. It's an issue now because he's not scoring, but the issue isn't that he isn't tracking back, he just isn't justifying his inclusion at the other end of the pitch.
It's like critcising Carragher at the end of his career for not being that good on the ball. We knew that ten years previous.
It's like critcising Carragher at the end of his career for not being that good on the ball. We knew that ten years previous.
This is what I hate about stats. Sure, if you'd never seen Salah play here, this constitutes information. Like if we were thinking about buying some strange player named Salah then I'd be alarmed by this.
But, if you however, person who has been watching him for years, dont already have a chart like that, going down, in your mental model of mo salah, if you don't intuitively understand how massively he's declined... then mo Salah is the least of your concerns. It's your own cognitive decline you need to be focused on (a difficult, and self-defeating undertaking.)
So you are saying he is covering more ground and is getting faster over last year or so ? This is amazing ** snigger snigger **
It's horrible, it's made for youtube shorts and Tik Tok likes and keep certain presenters employed over midweek.
He's been shit for a number of years now, so that would probably explain it.
You know what really blows my mind? With the amount of in house physical testing and performance data clubs have, you should be able to see physical decline coming before it hits you in the face. We got it badly wrong with Fabinho. Salah too, and to a lesser extent Henderson and Gini. I’d honestly love to know what the thinking was, because there should be a clear, evidence led way of tying physical drop off into contract renewals and pay, rather than reacting after the fall has already happened. We've been guilty about being reactive a bit too much.
But that's not what you said last year while he was banging it in.
I beg to fucking differ.
Just maybe the data nerds abilities had been oversold? Some of celebration to Edwards returning on here was rather strange especially against Klopp's growth in power while they were away. They should and will have a lot more data during training and throughout games about each player, surely that will not say anything different to what these lo-fi stats sites we have publically.
You did defo post on here saying how great had been doing, this time last year. Wasn't you then? distinctly remember a graciously apologetic post from you from the year before.
I think Salah still will test really well in the performance data overviews. He's probably one of the fittest professional footballers out there.
Its more that the decline of pace and explosiveness in games have been more evident this season. Resulting in fewer goals and just a more poor all around game.
Also his desire to actually use his pace and power.
That's not necessarily the way physiology works. The balance between optimal stress and recovery can be a very fine line. You recover and adapt over and over again... Until you don't.
I think Klopp's style of play in particular really pushes the line in terms of what players are capable of. Not surprising to me that most have been burned out shells after departing. (Also, it's clear that he was able to get most players performing above their individual level as part of a well calibrated team.)
Slot was supposed to be capable of better managing stress, recovery and injury risk. But it seems like he's unable to trust his bench sufficiently and runs key players (Gravy last year, Szobo this year) into the ground.
