Great performance from him today in difficult circumstances, the quality is there and he put in a decent defensive shift.
Showed very well how he can contribute to the team play without being on form so lets just hope he comes back more relaxed so we can witness the old Mo starting from February, as the team truly needs him to get us to top4 this season.
This new system suits him better than sticking him out wide, gets him closer to goal if this Brighton game is anything to go by. That said, we might never find out if it will really get the best out of him if club manage to sell him in January⦠Weāll see what happens there. I donāt see him or Slot staying beyond summer the way things are going, nor this system.
I hope Mo stays at least stays to the summer so he can have a proper send off, if he goes.
I like him to stay unless a crazy offer comes from the Saudies.
Enjoyed that he wasnāt the selfish Mo today he linked well, but you know what I also feel from the in match posts.
He doesnāt look like heās ever going to pass it to Wirtz when Wirtz is in the better position to score, does he?
100 million Saudi only ..end of season.
Steady on! Heās not in Charlie Adam territory yet.. ![]()
100 million saudi riyad is about £20m. We can surely do better
While Iām glad anfield didnāt boo Salah or anything despite his brain fart interview, itās a shame Trent Alexander Arnold wasnāt shown the same courtesy last season or even when he played for Madrid against us.
Watching Mo today and at the end and seeing his smile, maybe he has reconciled that he doesnāt have to carry the team and to score and create every time he gets the ball.
Maybe he now realises that there are now other players that can carry that burden and he is happy to release the ball and let them do their magic, which he did do far more.
I hope he finds that happy medium which will benefit the team as well as lifting that weight.
2 sets of completely different circumstances.
Do wonder if maybe yesterday was something of an amicable solution to dampen the fire down a bit and allow Mo to say goodbye.
Slot didnāt sound all that convincing in his BBC interview.
Well he started on the bench and didnāt complain about it, and then had a good game when he came on. I thought that was a good apology without him sitting in a press conference muttering insincere platitudes.
I suspect he probably does leave in one of the next two windows, but it doesnāt leave a bitter taste in the mouth.
Indeed. One threw his team and his manager under the bus by coming out and making a load of headlines all about himself at one of Liverpoolās lowest ebbs over the last 10 years.
The other didnāt sign a contract extension.
We can all put a slant on both situations to back our point of view, but only one of them will be welcomed back.
the other way of looking at it is that one took off for pastures new, whilst the other fought tooth and nail until the end for his Liverpool careerā¦
and who knows, maybe it was the big explosion we had to have, there was a certain freedom to our football these last two games that i havent seen for a while, maybe Mo had to , almost, take himself out, for Slot to be able to move on.
not saying thats what Mo did selflessly, but it might have been a welcome flush to the system we didnt know we needed.
its a story as old as football itself dressing room blowup, followed by honest conversations, followed by a new found appreciation of each other.
One did sign a contract extension and the other plays for Madrid. Not that hard to understand the different receptions
Iām not saying what Trent Alexander Arnold did was right or wrong. Personally I didnāt have too much of a problem though because heād given us years of service, had never kicked off and was integral to to our success. But yes he wanted to try something else so fair play to him. He wonāt be classed as an all time legend at the club but he didnāt deserve to be booed after everything.
Fans are very quick to criticise and insult our players on here and also v quick to say to dump someone because they donāt deem them good enough. Just look at the Slot thread to see the shit heās been getting from many here and he led us to only our 2nd title in 35 years.
So should a statue be put up of Trent? No.
Should he be booed and given shit? No
As for Salah he shouldnāt be booed either. But thereās no doubting heās been extremely selfish and his comment that he made about not having to need to fight because of all heād achieved previously is pretty bloody shoddy as it shows his mentality at the time.
Salahās past performances earned him his new contract. They donāt earn him a right to start every game forevermore.