What does he want?
Keep playing when he isn’t delivering and the team is falling apart? Loss after loss?
Nah, not having that.
Sell him.
He’s just dropped in my estimation.
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This is who Mo is, though. Every time he wants to make a statement, he approaches the mixed zone with some pointed comments, throws a tantrum on the touchline, or has his agent say something thinly veiled on social media. He’s never been one to just say silent.
He hasn’t dropped in my estimation because I knew Mo had diva this side to him. Which is why I figured they were going to sell him in the summer, too.
It’s worse than Mascherano, might be an all time low.
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I don’t see how he comes back from this. I don’t expect to see him back with the squad in spring time. I reckon he’s gonna get sold during the winter transfer.
There is zero point in him staying this year. He wont win the CL, PL, or FA, or any individual awards. Might as well take a big money move to SA after AFCON. No other elite side is going to take him.
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Hughes should be all over this. Mo need to be told to keep his mouth shut. That the club will help facilitate a January move. And he is too big a legend to burn his reputation like this. He can go, but let’s all make sure it’s on good terms.
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My guess is they (Hughes and Slot) want to sell Mo in January to fund new players so they decided to give him minimal to none gametime until he leaves for AFCON.
Shut the fuck up Mo.
We have all been calling for you to have a rest because of poor form. Manager agrees.
Selfish prick. Harden up and try and make a difference.
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Makes sense only if he hadn’t played pretty much every minute of the last 3 months.
Not good from Mo. At all. I think this now means a January exit is more likely than not. The Brighton game will be a farewell, at the least for AFCON, but probably for good.
I think you need Bobby Firmino level humility in order to see out your days as an elite player smoothly. Mo has been a legend. What he has done for us has been amazing. But what he has been doing this season has not been good enough. He’s not the only one, and that would be a lengthy tangent to call out some others, but the observation is about Mo.
He has not been good enough and finally Slot has had the courage to drop him, probably weeks after he should have done. He has given Mo lots of chances.
A new team is trying to emerge. It hasn’t been smooth and we have struggled. But the future is the likes of Wirtz, Ekitike and Isak.
I hope we buy a central defender and a winger for the start of January. I hope the new breed coming through, spearheaded by the likes of Szoboszlai, can make a good fist of the rest of the season. Szoboszlai is one of the few to have played well this season, and as a leader he has the character to talk about dressing room stuff being private, as it should be - Salah needs to take a leaf out of that book.
If and when Salah leaves the focus comes back to Slot. If Salah is off, Slot should stay for a little while. They both should not leave, back-to-back. Instead, see if Slot can deliver the culture we need, which seems to have fallen apart given Salah’s comments, and see if Slot can deliver better performance on the pitch to make a case to stay.
If not, he will be gone too. But that needs a bit more time now, I think. Salah has as good as issued an ultimatum, Slot or me, and FSG need to back the manager in the face of player power or insubordination. But Slot of course has his own issues to sort out, if he wants to be here next season.
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I feel that MO (+his agent), have taken a page out of the Trump book of deflection.
He doesn’t want the footballing world to think he has been benched because the high bar he once set, judged on this seasons performance, has recently dropped so low he can’t even limbo dance under it… no no no, he wants the footballing world to think the club have a vendetta against him, in so much that he is of more value to LFC by being sold on, than having him play each game.
Maybe this reflects his comment that he has ‘earned his place here in the team…’ or by default, he is only being dropped, not because of his shit form of late, no no no, he is being dropped to force him out of the club… well, in the eyes of MO it seems.
If he is trying to create a fracture line between him and AS, a him or me scenario… thinking a new manager would pick him every week… then it would surprise me if LFC fans, new and old, would side with MO on this…
The club comes first… and no one is above that
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So they decided recently that they want to get rid.
Mo is not worth £400k+ a week. It’s not a blip.
I’ve a feeling that back in the day, before so much money came into the game, and before top players became an industry all of their own, the likes of Shanks or Paisley would have sorted this early, and decisively.
Just thinking about Tommy Smith, and how he was pissed off as Emlyn Hughes came to the fore. Then came Thommo’s time, but before you knew it, a young lad named Hansen was the main man, and so on and so forth.
The exact timing and date is not so much the issue, rather, the continuation that must always happen, and that no matter who you are, or how good you have been, it will end for you one day, and someone else will come after you.
I think to certain extent that the Salah situation and the Slot situation need treating separately. Slot needs to be judged on his performance as manager, and that will happen sooner or later.
But before that, with Salah, I think there is a real risk that if he see’s off one manager because he has had the temerity to bench him, then there is absolutely nothing to stop him having a crack at the next one.
He views himself as undroppable. He thinks that he should be in this team because of what he has done in the past and not what he is doing now. This isn’t going to stop unless it gets nipped in the bud.
One thing you can say about FSG is that they have a keen appreciation of value for money. They will not be happy with what they are getting for his £1.6m monthly salary. Using the love he has from the fans to pressure them for the deal he wanted worked last time because he had the numbers. Well, he doesn’t anymore. I would think the suits probably massively regret that deal, and would absolutely love to get him off the books at this point.
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(I couldn’t resist)
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Yep. Salah has made himself the most pressing issue. I think a January move will be the outcome.
Once that is sorted, Slot needs to show us that he has the leadership skills to restore the right culture, and the coaching skills to get the team performing on the pitch. If not, he won’t be here next season.
But the two issues should, in my view, now have some separation and a bit of space between them.
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and that’s fine. But this is a red mark on Arne Slot’s track record of managing players and their personalities. At a club like Liverpool you will have big players with big egos. Without the big egos they don’t become big players. And if you can’t manage them when things turn sour as they can for any manager, then frankly you may not be up to the task of being the manager of Liverpool FC.
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I don’t know how much has been said behind closed doors, clearly plenty already, but I’m really surprised (and a little disappointed) that Mo couldn’t keep this private, whatever he may feel about things.
This just seems like the absolute cherry on the shitcake of a season we’re having. It’s really hard to see this club turning into a pantomime, just in time for Christmas 
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I don’t get the impression Slot is a particularly good man-manager, but with a player the age and experience of Mo Salah he really shouldn’t need to be.
Mo should be fully aware that the performance he has put in this season cannot guarantee him a place in the team.
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