Yeah, Mo is merely the fans’ voice on this occasion. And it needs to be heard clear and loud.
(Carra’s face on this pic… 
)
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@Quicksand I don’t think he was scapegoated at all. Most people were of the opinion he needed to be taken out of the team, and the only reason it’s retrospectively described as Slot disrespecting him was because Slot is in the doghouse now and we all want him gone. That wasn’t the mood earlier in the season.
It has not been a good season from Mo, and he certainly looks to have dropped a lot from previous years. Structurally the team hasn’t been right to get the best out of him - which is going to be case if you don’t adequately replace the hard work of Diaz, Jota and Nunez - but he has looked, for the first time in his Liverpool Career like you wouldn’t necessarily back him in front of goal.
Salah has always had this petulance to him. I haven’t forgotten him publicly tearing a strip off Klopp when he put him on the bench. I suppose you don’t get to the level he has got to without that streak, but I won’t miss the ‘there will be fire’ drama that he brings.
I still think it’s painfully obvious that his social media post is much more about making it clear to prospective employers that this shitshow of a season is nothing to do with him, than it is speaking for the fans, protecting the club, or even leaving one on Slot.
I just want him to get a good send off on Sunday, so I can remember all the ways he made me happy.
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Carragher has had a weird take on the Salah/Slot thing but it’s pretty well known that Carragher and Salah don’t get along.
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To be fair, Carragher has a pretty weird take on most things, usually prefaced with a sharp intake of breath, a pause for effect, and the word ‘look….’ which makes it seem as if he’s given the matter some thought.
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That’s your opinion but it’s definitely not painfully
obvious. Personally I think he cares deeply for the club and clearly has a connection with the fans that is beyond anyone else currently at the club. Rightly so. He is an all time great, arguably in our top 3 ever
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Love this from Pep
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100% @WeeJoe
Its easier to make it all Salahs fault, easier than recognising that the club has fallen asunder over the last year. And no matter how we address this, that fall isn’t on Mo Salah.
I’m really gobsmacked with the take that he is absolving himself of guilt for the benefit of future employers. To me, he simply doesn’t need to do this. His stock is still high, he doesn’t need gimmicks to sell himself. I believe he is invested in wanting whats best for Liverpool.
Of course, its all opinion, but I’m pretty sure Mo loves the club and wants whats best.
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@WeeJoe @Quicksand totally agree.
Of all the players, Mohammed Salah could give ZERO fucks about this season. It will have ZERO bearing on whoever picks him up next. It will have ZERO bearing on his legacy as a LFC legend.
Yes he is older and slower than he used to be but he is still quality and in the right setup he will still score goals at top level.
It’s the weirdest take that he is using this to absolve himself of anything.
By the way, someone has posted earlier here the stats about how we did with and without Salah this season and it’s crystal clear we are better with him in the pitch.
Yeah, he thinks highly of himself. And why shouldn’t he. Which top player, especially which top four do you know of who looks down upon themselves? If you don’t believe you’re great, then you’ll never be able to be actually great in real life.
So is spills out into the open sometimes as arrogance, so what? That’s the price you pay for having a forward who’s banged in so many goals for us. Sometimes he won’t pass his teammates when it’s the right thing to do. But he will get you those goals in volume that wins you big things.
This thing about him not running back to defend is the most ludicrous thing to hit him over the head with.
It’s by design! In order to maximise his goal scoring abilities.
And it has worked every single bloody season until this season but then again nothing has worked this season! So to say that all he suddenly shirking his defensive responsibility is absolute bullshit.
And speaking of players being self-serving, why shouldn’t they? Clubs chew and spit out players left right and centre. We only see the ones that are in the spotlight and when they back themselves up, we go “oh they’re being selfish.“
Well guess what, so are clubs. Even more so.
We all like some players and don’t like others. It’s natural. We’re all different. But it’s unfair to use that prism of bias to frame the social media post by him to fit a narrative that he has an ulterior motive.
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Come on.
We all know he is a wonderful player, and I agree that he is in the top three to five players in our history.
But let’s not pretend he doesn’t have history for using the media to get what he wants.
Do you remember his public angling for a new contract last season? He never speaks to the media, never does post match interviews, never stops in mix zones. Until he isn’t getting the contract offer he wants and all of a sudden you can’t get the microphone out of his hand.
This isn’t a binary thing. I’m certain he loves the club and fans and everything, but there is also - because this is how he and his agents work - a big dollop of what is best for Mo Salah too.
I’m off to the Arne Slot thread 
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I don’t know if that’s aimed at me, but it’s missing the point a bit.
You cannot be the lad who doesn’t do the graft because when you give him a chance he bags, if you aren’t bagging.
Mo has been excused the tracking back and defending, and that’s because he delivers the goals and assists the team needs. And up to this season it’s worked.
But this season, the goals and assists have dried up. Looking at him it’s clear that he isn’t scoring as reliably as he used to. I don’t think he’s been helped by the structure either, but the team was always going to have to move past him eventually. You can’t keep building a team round a player who is 34.
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See you there.
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Do you honestly think he needed a social media message to sell himself to other clubs?
Or maybe, just maybe this is an honest appraisal of where he sees us at the moment?
You can question timing, question whether players should speak out?
But why assume that there is anything other than a genuine love for the club he is leaving?
As I said, he really doesn’t need to sell himself, he’ll have loads of offers.
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That doesn’t make sense to me in this instance. You think other clubs would have never considered Salah but are more likely to now because he has ‘absolved” himself in a social media post?
The only way it makes sense as self-serving is if he is angling for another year at Liverpool after he gets Slot out
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Both takes can be true at once. He loves the club and wants what’s best for the club but also loves himself and wants what’s best for himself too. Although I doubt it’s about putting himself in the shop window and more about endearing himself to a fan base who agree with him right before he fucks off in a season when most people were happy to see the back of him.
Thats bollocks
I must of missed the part where the fan base was praising his performances this season and were clamouring for him to stay…
Carragher is a weirdo.He is not a Liverpool legend and he is not a Liverpool fan either.
None of that is true and you know it.
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I don’t particularly like Carra, but that is a strange thing to say.
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