Post match: Leeds v Liverpool (EPL 6/12/25 5.30pm)

yep.

Might be best not to post quotes attributed to Mo if there is no proof it’s actually real…?

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fuck fuck fuck fuck

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its tru…FUCK, wish it was not

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I’m sorry I gave up reading all your posts.

What I don’t understand is why we surrender the midfield after going ahead. How the hell is having 8 or more players standing on the edge of our penalty area watching the opposition helping us to keep a clean sheet?

I haven’t seen any other teams use this ‘tactic’. They usually have 2 distinct blocks and move when necessary. With a strong fast bugger standing waiting for the lobbed clearance. I.e a defense, midfield and attacker.

What complete unaduterated bollocks,really over Slot now.

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Mohamed Salah: Liverpool have thrown me under bus. Time to say goodbye

Marginalised club legend says he no longer has relationship with head coach Slot and may not return to Merseyside after upcoming Africa Cup of Nations

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Paul Joyce

, Northern Football Correspondent

Saturday December 06 2025, 9.10pm GMT, The Sunday Times

Mohamed Salah waves to fans after a Premier League match.

Salah applauded the travelling Liverpool fans and waved after he was an unused substitute at Elland Road

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Mohamed Salah has accused Liverpool of “throwing him under the bus” and said his relationship with head coach Arne Slot is over in an incendiary interview.

Salah said he would say “goodbye” to Liverpool supporters at next Saturday’s Premier League game with Brighton & Hove Albion at Anfield, after which he will report to Egypt’s Africa Cup of Nations camp, because he no longer knows if he has a future at the club.

The 33-year-old spoke out after being an unused substitute in the club’s 3-3 draw with Leeds United last night, the third game in a row in which he had not been in Slot’s starting line-up.

Salah said he used to have a good relationship with Slot — who led Liverpool to the Premier League title last season, with the Egypt forward as his star player — but that had collapsed and he claimed that “someone does not want me in the club”. He added that Liverpool had broken promises made to him when he signed a new two-year contract worth about £400,000 a week at the end of last season.

During a post-match interview that lasted more than seven minutes, Salah said: “I’m very, very disappointed. I have done so much for this club down the years and especially last season.

“Now I’m sitting on the bench and I don’t know why. It seems like the club has thrown me under the bus. That is how I am feeling. I think it is very clear that someone wanted me to get all of the blame.

“I got a lot of promises in the summer and so far I am in the bench for three games, so I can’t say they keep the promise. I said many times before that I had a good relationship with the manager and all of a sudden, we don’t have any relationship. I don’t know why, but it seems to me, how I see it, that someone doesn’t want me in the club.

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Salah said he no longer has a relationship with Slot and he doesn’t know why

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“This club, I always support it. My kids will always support it. I love the club so much, I will always do. I called my mum yesterday — you guys didn’t know if I would start or not, but I knew.

“Yesterday I said to [my parents], ‘Come to the Brighton game.’ I don’t know if I am going to play or not but I am going to enjoy it. In my head, I’m going to enjoy that game because I don’t know what is going to happen now. I will be at Anfield to say goodbye to the fans and go the Africa cup. I don’t know what is going to happen when I am there.”

There will be interest from the Saudi Pro League in Salah, who was asked if he had played his last game for Liverpool after eight years in which he has won two league titles and the Champions League. He has scored 250 goals and is third on the club’s all-time scoring list behind Ian Rush and Roger Hunt.

“In football you never know,” he said. “I don’t accept this situation. I have done so much for this club. “I don’t want to answer this question [about Saudi], because the club is going to take me to a different direction.

“After what I have done for the club it really hurts. You can imagine, really. After going from home to the club and you don’t know if you are starting. I know the club too well, I have been here many years. Tomorrow [Jamie] Carragher [former Liverpool defender and Sky Sports’ pundit ] is going to go for me again and again and that’s fine.

“I have been at this club, scoring more than anyone in this generation, since I came to the Premier League, I don’t think anyone has scored more goals and made more assists than me. In the whole Premier League. If I am somewhere else, everybody would go to the media and defend the players. I am the only one in this situation.

“Can I give an example? It’s silly but I am sorry. I remember a while go, Harry Kane was not scoring for ten games, everyone in the media was like, ‘Oh, Harry will score for sure, when it comes to Mo everyone is like ‘he needs to be on the bench’. I am sorry Harry!”

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bloody hell…

Yet he has more end product than Mo, if and when Mo does get back he is so passive he really isn’t defending, last thing Cody is taller and gives more aerial presence with out being that good in the air.

Finally neither are playing well and maybe Cody is the lesser of 2 evils defensively, like you said I am over what Cody does and same with Mo.

Just thinking on a lot of our goals scored a lot have come in from crosses from wide players cutting balls back or whipping balls in with right foot from the right and a left foot from the left.

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Gutted. Joyce has spoken and it’s official- we’re a fucking shambles

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I totally refute those allegations you are a cad, kind Sir

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yep… was really hoping it was AI and egg on my face… damn…

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Bit fed up of how Salah uses the media. He hasn’t said anything, that I have seen, about all the poor performances including by himself. After PSV it was Curtis Jones coming out to speak. Yet when it is something that personally affects him he’s straight out in front of the cameras. Was the same when he was begging for contract.

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This reminds me off all the rubbish when Ljinders wrote the Intensity book. No Football Club at any level is only just cracking on to the fact that we struggle to deal with the long ball because Slot has blabbed in a post match.

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I think Gravenberch plays with his eyes closed.

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Totally agree, he uses the media for the wrong reasons, seems so selfish.

Slot may not be perfect, no coach is but this is so wrong from Mo IMO

No rallying cry, no media snippets to bolster us when needed.

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wrong move as one of the leaders. just fractures the group even further

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hi @Sweeting

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Bottom line with the MO statement… A blind man on a galloping horse could see his form has been woeful this term. When there is no guarantee a player can play himself back into form within a reasonable amount of games, then surely it is only natural to take them out of the firing line, and away from the constant sniping that pundits like Carragher make.