After a great season figure wise from Salah, coupled with winning the league and losing Trent and wanting to retain faith with the fans it was a relatively safe decision to extend Salah’s contract, knowing his value would still hold in Saudi Arabia and they would most likely match his wages. If he continued to perform - bonus, if not, £30m + please.
I believe Salah’s performance has been hindered by not having a regular RB. The team as a whole has struggled to adapt to the number of new players. I hope this is not the end of Salah’s legacy with us.
Klopp as a package of coach + the person he is, is a rare one.
We cannot expect that every head coach we have will be world class at what he should do, but then also universally likeable, funny, a second father to everyone, someone who touches on matters outside football with skill and sense, part time philosopher and whatever else.
And Liverpool being a global club, if people disagreed on previous coaches like Rafa or today Slot, it’s absolutely natural.
I’m not 100% sure where the best place to put this is but considering this thread probably has more traffic and what I’m thinking is not only about Slot but his predecessor and the people around them I thought I’d stick it here.
It was fairly well documented that Klopp and Edwards disagreed over Jordan Henderson. Klopp wanted to keep him whilst Edwards believed he was past his peak and wanted to move him on.
Now obviously we’ve got Hughes in the position Edwards was in but I would be shocked if they haven’t spoken about this after Salah did that interview.
When Klopp left we were told that instead of one person having so much say that Slot would be more of a head coach and Hughes (and God knows how much extent Edwards will have) will be more involved with transfers and contracts.
What I’m wondering is that not only given the performances this season but also the questions as to whether we (or at least Slot atm) can get the most out of our new players who we spent a fortune on if Salah remains. We’ve seen it a lot this season where players have looked for Salah before anyone else.
I am probably doing him a massive disservice here but if there is a possibility of getting a high enough bid from Saudi I have an image in my head of Edwards rubbing his hands together ala one of those Dastardly and Muttley cartoons. If we manage to start getting results between now and the end of AFCON and there is interest from Saudi how much interference might the people upstairs put themselves towards the situation instead of it being totally Slot’s choice?
This might be even more important if we are looking to buy someone like Semenyo and we might need to try and balance the books?
Has Mo apologised?
Have you spoken to Mo since Inter?
How many conversations do you expect to have with Mo this weekend?
& the weekend after that?
Will Mo be part of the squad this weekend?
What did you make of Carra’s comments on Mo?
As of 09:32:21am this morning, how would you best describe your relationship with Mo?
& in more than a word?
Will you be wishing Mo well at AFCON before he jets off?
Will you be keeping close tabs on Mo whilst he’s at AFCON?
Will you look to sell Mo in Jan?
Or maybe the summer?
Were you any closer to identifying who Mo was referring to when he said “someone at the club doesn’t want me here”?
To me this is very understandable as our modus operandi is to use stats when assessing players, add this to Mo’s age and it would be only right for them, being responsible for player movements, to see if there is a market for Mo especially on his wages ,that’s business.
Mo feels because of what he has done over the last 8 years he deserves time, I understand his point of view but for me, let their legs go on someone else’s pitch, is what is right for LFC
Keita’s numbers before and the eye test was very good, after no.
We also don’t just base it on numbers we look at a players personality and it is combination of what stats say, the scouts and in the past Jurgen had input, that is from Ian Graham
