“The winger’s £400,000-a-week contract at Liverpool had been due to expire in the summer of 2027 but he asked for the agreement to be terminated 12 months early after what he perceived to be a deterioration in his relationship with Slot, having been demoted to the bench for three games at the end of November and beginning of December last year.”
I’m really having issues with these aggregator accounts but I can’t be going around the boards asking people to delete them and link to the source directly. Thing is, The Times articles are behind a paywall and it’s not easy for many people to find the exact quotes from there from any search engine.
Did we know before this that Stevie personally intervened in the winter by going round Mo’s house and convincing him to not try to leave in that window?
I’m old school. I wish everyone could just shut their yapper! (Not on here, I mean Mo, Slot, or anyone else around the situation).
Mo has been brilliant. His contribution to the club will be etched in the record books long after we’ve all gone. He will rightly get a great send-off.
Beyond that it’s all a bit tabloid for me, when the main fact is clear for all to see. Mo has declined, he is still well capable of some decent play and goals and so on, but overall he is not what we need on the wing right now, and he is not worth what we are paying him. We need a new winger, and then Mo becomes a very expensive rotational option, or he moves on.
We all know what’s what but it doesn’t diminish Mo one iota. He has been brilliant, and now it’s time. All the fans love him and will celebrate him, and rightly so.
The other stuff - speaking out, being vindicated and so on - isn’t necessary. To this old dinosaur, it takes the gloss off a bit, and that’s a shame.
Yes it does. Mo tarnishes himself pointlessly. Arne was well within his rights to drop Mo - arguably should have done it a couple of months earlier - and he’s still had significant game time since and certainly can’t feel hard done by based on his output this season.
Once Mo leaves, everything is going to come out in the wash, what has been going on behind the scenes and why this season was so abysmal. Also, why Slot’s tactics weren’t working and the players were not performing on the pitch.
I’ve heard that a few times (Torres, for example) before and over apparently worse things, or more staff/club connected than the head coach and nothing particularly special came out. We’ll see, but it might be the usual disagreements that you sometimes get when big players or persons come towards his/their end somewhere.
I hope there is restraint. I don’t like dirty laundry in public. Fine if it’s another club in a mess, but if it’s us, I want everything to be handled with maximum dignity.
If the leaders lead, and Slot is shown the door this summer, it will have a way of smoothing over a lot of cracks. The focus must then switch to the new man and the new season.
Salah’s ‘job’ is to feel the love and soak in the adulation of an adoring and thankful crowd. He has had a brilliant Liverpool career. Settling scores in public is not the Liverpool way, at least for me, and I hope he doesn’t go there. It then gets a reply, and then becomes more of a thing, when we need to draw a line under this season and move on.
If Mo wants to remain loved and stay classy, he will say nothing about whatever happened behind the scenes. TBH, he needs to move on because he is no longer good enough; making it about a clash with Arne may actually suit his purposes and allow him to save face. I’ve no problem with that but if he starts coming out with a tell all then it is inevitable Slot and others will point to his drop off and that he was unreasonable demanding to start.
Exactly. It’s a lose-lose situation. Mo speaks out about Slot’s flaws - and he’s right! But then Slot speaks out about Mo not being what he once was - and he’s right!
here we have a guy who loves the club and has broken all sorts of records and worked hard to ‘get the train moving’…he didnt jump on the moving train…hes seeing it dismantled right infront of him, dance parties in Ibiza, out of shape bodies everywhere,
sometimes keeping it all inhouse isnt the best course of action… sometimes kicking the hornets nest is
@Zoran posted in the in match thread a number of players missing from training though the club hasn’t posted any training photos today via their network, so not sure who reported that. Guess they will do the usual Thursday one.
Dom has posted a cute photo of him on the swings with child at dusk.
