While some of this may be Mo throwing a bit of a tantrum, you’d have to wonder if a similar feeling is had amongst the other players regarding their relationship with Slot.
We shouldn’t be performing this bad, but we are and players tend to turn(privately) rather than look at themselves even though publicly they may say otherwise.
Right now I don’t think it’s looking good for Slot. I think he’ll have to turn this around quickly or he lose more of them and then he’s gone.
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I thought it was disgraceful that he was left unmarked 6 yards from goal.
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Look to be fair to your u11s, if their result predicts ours then you have to start fixing their games, Mascot. I’m sure your lad will understand that it’s worth it for the cause. 
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Not a bad post from Stan Collymore on Social Media re the Mo spat, if anyone can be bothered reading it. Quite long:
Mo Salah. A very long read.
I think I know a little about LFC, its supporters and how they view their club. Shaped of course by Shankly then Paisley, Kenny, Jurgen and now now Slot.
One thing remains constant, perhaps more than any other English club, its always the club first and last, players and managers add their DNA to the club, but the club trumps the individual.
Now, Mo Salah has left plenty of winners DNA at Anfield and has taken his place in the pantheon of greats.
So it’s interesting to see his interview, dropping a grenade into the club because if I know Liverpool and it’s supporters at all (I think there may be even a generational difference in responses, younger supporting the grenade, older shaking their heads) then their first reaction will be..
Club, first and last, don’t care who it is. Its a living and breathing mantra and one that even Mo Salah will find it difficult to duke it out against.
Now, could Arne Slot be less pally with players than Jurgen? Absolutely, he’s a calm, relaxed, tad detached guy who ( if you remember) was unimpressed with Trent early doors and showed a nonchalant attitude in season one to “one of their own” who’d won everything there is to win. I think that’s impressive, but not as impressive as winning the title in your first season. So he’s earned his respect too.
The team are playing well in spurts, comedy defending and decision making at other times. That includes everyone, and if you ask 99.9% of players if they’d accept 2 or 3 games on the bench for not hitting levels, all will say yes. Only in the madness of 2025 modern football would the cult of personalities not only question a reasonable conclusion of “you’re not playing well, here’s a spell on the bench”, but Mo maybe has almost tricked himself onto elevating himself to the untouchable status of Messi or Ronaldo, players who could, if they chose, literally do and say as they pleased in the last decade. Mo isn’t them, and Liverpool as I said, isn’t that club either.
I’m sure some of the youngsters will rant "he’s right and Slot’s to blame ", but without any evidence that Slot has deliberately ( managers NEED their star players to perform, not to be asked about them in every presser for the next 5 months…) ostracised anyone at the club other than do what every good manager has done since the invention of the game, namely leave someone out who’s not playing well misses the point as every great club, team and manager have dropped great players at some stage. Some even when playing well!!
The solution to what is now a very open sore is simple (ish)
- Player and manager talk privately.
- Manager tells player what he wants from the player.
- Player commits or tells manager he wants out.
- If player wants out, make it happen quickly. If not, pick the player and let him be judged by his continued performances. If they’re poor, manager can’t lose, “I told you so”. If they’re great, manager can’t lose. So Slot playing Mo is a very good starting point, especially as 2 very big signings have yet to make Mo " yesterday’s man"
Arne Slot can help himself a little by using his natural openness to say " maybe I’m not Jurgen but I love my players and they couldn’t have won a spectacular title last season without reacting to me and my methods a little too, but I hear Mo’s comments and I can tell you all now, I love him to bits and he’s ours to keep". That heads off any “seniors” with similar grenades to throw.
But one thing’s for sure, I don’t think there will ever be a Liverpool player past, present or future with valid gripes that would jeopardise the “club first and last” ethos of Liverpool, and those who’ve had legitimate concerns I’m sure aired them at an appropriate time, not a flash interview when emotions are high.
Liverpool FC have done as well for every player who’s played for them as players have done for the club, so the institution has earned that private, rather than public critique. Whoever that’s from.
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In an unofficial capacity i think.
I think Stan Collymore made good points here.
I think Mo is hurting here. He loves the club and maybe Arne is not good in connecting with the players. Jürgen’s man management was excellent and he was a relationship builder and a good communicator. I am not saying Arne isn’t a good communicator, maybe he is just a matter of fact kind of guy
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Im sorry for my swearing in the match thread. I done something i never do - had a few pints and then came on here to vent my anger.
Apoligies everyone xx
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The game turned on the penalty We were coasting and that 1 set back as per all season derailed us.
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Agreed. I think it’s well balanced. He acknowledges that Arne’s man management skills aren’t anywhere near what JKs were. A good example of this recently was his response to Harvey’s struggles at Villa. We know that JK would have been speaking to him regularly and offering encouragement. Mo response was poor and he’s put his own position above the club.
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But…3 games unbeaten…
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My experience of the Dutch (not of @Dutch - is he still about?) is they are pretty straight forward, direct and in your face. There is no sugar coating and that can rub some people up the wrong way if you’re not used to it.
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Having a wank, loves a good tug in miserable circumstances
You should be sold in the Jan transfer window. How dare you wash your dirty linen in public ! 
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To be honest, the whole tawdry mess has me in a low mood.
I won’t say depressed, because that is stealing a word that defines peoples lives.
I fucking love Mo Salah.
I’ve argued with fellow Liverpool supporters about his place in the best PL era players. I always ssy he is best, better than Henry, Ronaldo, Rooney.
I love Arne Slot, even if that is now tested with unbelievably poor performances.
More than all, I love Liverpool. And this saddens me. We laughed at the absolute state of United. Look at us now.
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This should have been done behind closed door and Can’t forgive Mo for it, his comments have dragged us even lower.
He says he loves Liverpool, he may do, but he obviously doesn’t understand LFC.
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Salah has been amazing for this club and has given us some of the most fantastic moments we’ve ever witnessed as fans. But the more I read and hear about his petulant outburst yesterday, I want him gone. I don’t want the club to wait until the 1st January, tell him he can go and join the Egypt squad now and his agent to find him another club.
It doesn’t matter if the club are about to sack Slot or not, what Salah has done cannot be tolerated. His comments are toxic and very damaging to the club, he needs to go and quickly.
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Yeah woke up feeling the same way. Sets a dangerous precedent if it is tolerated
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Oh trust me, there’s been an almighty blowout behind closed doors.
Morning after, I firmly don’t agree with Mo’s actions but then when you see Konate start match after match after repeatedly putting us under, if I was Mo, it would be doing my head in.
Slot has a lot to answer for this omnishambles.
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I think Konate’s days are numbered. Slot’s comment that he is a “bit too much at the crime scene” feels like a final judgement. I’m not sure he starts again if a centre half comes in in Jan.
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He shouldn’t be starting now. Joe is fit again. And Our RB’s are coming back