It’s not that good of a song, if I’m being totally honest. Nowhere near as good as the Bobby Firmino and Fede Chiesa bangers.
It’s now been how long? And no apology yet? Or even comments from the camp.
Normally after an emotional outburst the player and their PR quickly kill off the damage and everyone moves on. Not this time, so carefully engineered, and the fallout and news keeps fuelling. Look some of that nonsense and fake news above.
It could have been ended quickly. So disappointing.
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Give it time and im sure wirz will have his own song
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We need to get a move on. Premier League fans are running out of songs to copy 
The more I’m pondering about the Salah situation the more springs to my mind he has no future at LFC on the wing.
His best place imo is as one of two strikers.
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Agreed, precedents have to be set and the right ones, if Mo gets away with it then others think they can do the same.
Nip it in the bud at the beginning, this is all about our club not individuals and the club has to show strength.
Exactly this.
Even if he apologises what happens next time Slot decides Mo needs a rest or wants to pick a side that doesn’t include him. We’ve got another 18 months of this being a talking point every time he’s not in the side and at 33 his minutes are only going to be going in one direction at this level.
I really can’t see Mo rolling back on his comments. I can’t see Slot wanting to give in to a player demanding he be picked. And I can’t see the club being happy paying someone £400k a week to sit on the bench tossing grenades around.
The damage has been done, only way forward is him moving on.
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Or the next time we drop points in a game where he makes it to the end and has not played well. Every question Slot would face would be about whether he was feeling forced to stick with Mo to avoid another blow up.
Short of Mo getting back on a goal scoring run he had last year (dont see it), or coming back and going to lengths to show he was willing to play the Robbo role of senior pro waiting for his opportunities but doing everything he can to help along the new players in the mean time (dont see it), it just does not seem tenable to me. And that seems by design.
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Maybe not, but we haven’t got many left.
Em he doesn’t have to leave. If he was happy to fight for his place and accept he was benched for poor form then this outburst doesn’t make sense. Liverpool can want to sell him but he can see our his contract instead. The issue is that Mo doesn’t accept he doesn’t deserve to be playing.
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Dissecting for the umpteenth time what MO was raging about in his statement, with the accusations he made, and for it to come out of the blue like it did, brought me to thinking, that as most disputes somewhere along the way involve money, and if it was, could this be a factor in pushing him past his tipping point.
Simply put… 6 months ago, MO could have walked away from Anfield and pocketed maybe a £50m signing on fee from another club. Yet, here we are nearly at the half stage of the season and what do we have…
a) MO has been crap in every game this term
b) His form and output figures have dropped off a cliff.
c) Any ambitions he may have had to pad his goal scoring stats table against Shearer or Rooney are a distant ambition.
d) The team results have been awful, the team is disjointed, no pattern of play or new players tearing up trees on the pitch, doesn’t look as though we will win the PL again.
e) Tactical changes on the pitch have effected MO
f) He has been asked to polish the substitutes bench with his arse for the recent games, with no sign the team needs him’
g) etc etc.
We all know, it is better to have Edwards working for us than against us… Therefore, in the mind of MO, if he gets moved on, the signing on fee will be heading to the coffers of LFC instead.
Like I said above, if money has played a part in his outburst, he has been left with a weak hand now after (foolishly), borrowing the pen from Edwards to sign his two year extension, just a few months back…!
One thing is certain. It is messy, and we don’t need the unrest.
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By whose design?
It’s definitely untenable if Mo doesn’t admit that he was wrong. It’s absolutely understandable that he would be emotional and upset in the moment. But if after a week to ponder it all and listen to the media reaction (and, hopefully, some appropriate feedback from his inner circle of teammates), he’s still stuck in the same frame of mind, there is no going back. And he might as well plan on flying right to Saudi after AFCON.
But my hope is that he gets in a room with Hughes, Slot, Van Dijk, and Robbo and hammers it all out and walks out with shaken hands, forgiveness, and a commitment to making the best of the rest of this campaign.
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Tabloids are rubbing their grubby hands some more…
If the information is true, I seriously do not think Mo will consider an apology to LFC hierarchy and Slot. Sigh.
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Mo’s.
I’ve laid out my confusion on what exactly he thought this advanced for him, but I have absolutely no doubt of 2 things: 1) this was not an emotional outburst done without consideration of the consequences, and 2) he understood he was throwing a hand grenade
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Yeah. In the subsequent 3 matches, if the team improve without him, he moves on. If they still play aimlessly, then Slot moves on. Things are forced to change before he goes to AFCON is probably the point of this interview. I agree that it was deliberate.
So far, we haven’t lost but improvement is minimal. That’s the worst situation.
It’s improvement whether minimal or not and that is what is required
That sounds plausible to me. Mo recently had a lot of leverage for a very large signing bonus if he went on a free. Now that leverage has gone.
Without knowing the details of his contract, I would be surprised if there wasn’t some sort of provision in the eventuality that he would leave for another club within the duration of his 2 year Liverpool contract. Probably even a sliding scale, based on timing.
His advisors did a poor job if they left him completely exposed.
So my best guess is a modest transfer fee to the Saudis is baked into his current contract. We won’t see anything like the large fee we were expecting at one point, but we will see something - a more modest fee that also preserves plenty of riches for Mo Salah.
At a guess, what might have once been a £100M+ transfer fee will now be a £50M transfer fee.
I would imagine the provision would be limited to clubs in Saudi Arabia. If he goes elsewhere, then at that point the market will speak, and I would have thought there will be very few takers at his salary, much less a decent transfer fee on top.
I said in another thread, but we will see soon enough which way this is likely to go. If there is not move toward reconciliation before he leaves for AFCON then I think the die is cast for an exit. Could be wrong. We’ll see.
Jesus Christ! He had sometime on his hands so he went to meet an old mate…who also happened to leave the club in less than ideal circumstances….ok I see it now.
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