08 Dec 2025 17:26:39
So Salah comes out n says he's very unhappy n blames the manager n people are moaning, last year he was giving interviews aswel as VVD more or less begging to be given a new contract, he could have tripled his wages elsewhere but he wanted to stay, the higher ups thought he was well worth the contract n gave him it but last year we had the Spanish judas saying nothing about his contract and people esp on here were sticking up for him left right n centre even though he was a shadow of the player he was previously, now we have bambi on ice Konate doing the same but this time he gets played every single game, no wonder Salah feels the scapegoat.
I know what player id prefer out of all them . the one who is desperate to stay n play for the club, we are absolutely garbage this year n he has a right to say how he feels .
{Ed001's Note - do you not think it justifies Trent leaving, what is going on here? I mean the way Salah is treated with a contract and a clear desire to stay, why would anyone want to bother staying any more? May as well take the money and not be scapegoated.}
08 Dec 2025 17:38:37
To be fair ed saying you don’t have to work for your position as you’ve already earned the right to play makes his position untenable, Salahs been a problem in the dressing room for years, the selfishness with mane and the disrespect to klopp, what kind of example is he for younger players?
{Ed001's Note - I would still point out that he is not talking in his first language and would want him to explain what he was trying to say there myself. Same as if it had been anyone using their second language to make a statement. If he meant it the way it has come out, then yes, immediately his position is untenable.
As for being a problem in the dressing room for years, do you mean when he is helping younger players to learn about improving their fitness, diet and recovery work? Do you mean when he is living professionally and doing everything he can to be at his peak for each match? If Mane had been half the professional Salah is, his career wouldn't have nosedived so spectacularly. What kind of example is he? An excellent one, that makes Milner look half-arsed. He dedicates himself to his craft, I would hope all our youngsters are looking at him and learning from him.
The disrespect to Klopp was wrong, but then Klopp has also been guilty of disrespecting people in the heat of the moment, but we don't castigate him for it. These things happen. Mane did far worse, but you are now holding him up like he was not selfish and got many fewer assists than Salah because he wouldn't pass when the chance came either.}
08 Dec 2025 17:54:14
I remember what ed002 used to say and he was correct (again)
“Players are just transient employees of the club”.
Same for Mo, same for Trent.
They all leave eventually. Either the club doesn’t want them anymore or the player doesn’t want the club anymore.
It’s that simple.
08 Dec 2025 17:58:39
Fair enough ed I do understand he has a big work rate first to the gym etc but he does come across as a spoilt brat who throws his toys out of the pram as soon as he’s dropped as the klopp incident was when he was first dropped season before last, it’s just a big mess isn’t it and kind of shows slot is out of his depth here, I find it bizarre konate is undroppable I’d rather a kid from the academy or Gomez at centre back than that massive liability and remember klopp dropping him for quansah, klop new he couldn’t be relied upon.
{Ed001's Note - I think you have the point there, Konate is actively playing against us at times, but it is Salah that gets dropped. That is poor management. You drop the worst performing player, rather than trying to make an example out of the star man, just as he is beginning to find his form.}
08 Dec 2025 17:59:19
Do you think we have seen the last of Mo in a Liverpool shirt ed?
{Ed001's Note - probably, very sadly yes.}
08 Dec 2025 18:15:46
Absolutelty spot on, Ed1. Gutted it's ending this way for Salah, a legend of the club and no matter what, he always will be in my opinion.
08 Dec 2025 18:17:02
Ed1, when Edwards was reappointed by the owner, do you see something like this happening? During his time as DoF, he had problems with Klopp and decided to quit. Now, he’s back, albeit in a different position, and this messy situation with Salah has occurred.
Somehow, he has managed to have issues with two key figures in our success over the last 10 years: Klopp and Salah.
{Ed001's Note - he is not really that closely involved in his role mate.}
08 Dec 2025 18:18:58
I agree, sadly is the right word. Gary Neville said something interesting during commentary, not verbatim - I don't know what a Liverpool goal looks like without Mo Salah.
It appears we will have to find out.
08 Dec 2025 18:24:02
I bet Queen of Scotty Road was cheering Salah’s Goals, Assists and PFA of the year awards. But he’s selfish because he’s hit out at that Hughes and Slot.
08 Dec 2025 18:31:07
Will you change your name when he goes, Salah poster? Or keep it in honour?
08 Dec 2025 18:52:57
A lot of people going after Salah and calling him selfish and all that really need to do some research. Serious talk.
Salah was known for helping young playersl like Elliott years ago when he came back from loan at Blackburn. Elliott said so himself.
We all saw how well he treated Darwin to the point that Darwin would always look for Salah on the pitch and was happy to do all the running for him. Majority of Darwins many assists went to Salah. Clearly, that was not by accident.
Also in one of those LFC related youtube videos, I saw him ask Chiesa over for dinner at his house and asked what dish Chiesa would like last season.
People may not like what Salah has done or how he has done it BUT let's stop with the character assassination cos it is becoming tedious and most importantly, it is patently false.
In fact indirectly or unintended, I see this as Salah speaking up for others (by speaking for himself) who are also being scapegoated without merit, by Slot not picking them, IMO.
{Ed025's Note - all hail saint Mo..
08 Dec 2025 18:56:58
Poor man management unfortunately. Thank you mr Slot for just about ruining all the years of hard work to turn our attitude to winners. All gone now. It’s a sh#t show.
08 Dec 2025 18:57:45
Ed001
I enjoy your support for Mo Salah. People have short memories of the many things he has done for Liverpool, and have hospitals built in Egypt.
I posted a point earlier that has probably been lost in the clutter.
The point is that looking at the latest training photos. The team look happy and supportive of Mo.
Could it be he is an unofficial shop steward type character. Saying what collectively the others think.?
With the many reports of losing the dressing room. Mo Salah was not only speaking for himself but a few others as well.
This is not a statement of fact but a question.
{Ed001's Note - it is perfectly possible, certainly Dom's refusal to speak out in support of Slot, instead batting the question away, suggests they are not supporting him. If they were, he would have been clear that they do so. Slot has alienated portions of the squad from the beginning, it is coming back to bite him now.}
08 Dec 2025 19:05:09
Keep it Salah. It's a must.
08 Dec 2025 19:05:33
We all did Frode he was superb last year, and for nearly all of his time here. But you. can do that and still think he was wrong to say what he said.
08 Dec 2025 19:13:59
Salah hasn’t been scapegoated he’s been dropped. Rightly so because he’s been awful.
If Mo was such a top professional who everyone should look up to he would knuckle down, improve his form and get back in the team.
Destabilising the team, the squad, the manager and the club by spitting your dummy out to the press because you’ve been dropped is about as far from professional as you can get.
08 Dec 2025 19:19:26
OliRed, who's being scapegoated? And what is false? Salah was bang out of order for saying what he said. Nothing false about that. I doubt very much he was speaking up for others. If he was why didn't he say that. You're spinning things to fit your narrative.
08 Dec 2025 19:25:48
I'll be keeping it, Rome.
08 Dec 2025 19:35:45
Probably the only way back for Mo is if our form continues to be poor, and Arne ends up going before end of Jan. In that case Mo may hang in there for a new coach, whether Hughes wants to offload him or not.
Whilst I think he was wrong to do it I think it could well have been a deliberate premeditated thing, where he was speaking for himself mainly but also for others.
Arne handled the press pretty well earlier. It’s a messy situation for us, and a shame for the club, coach and player that we find ourselves here.
08 Dec 2025 19:39:14
I’m not sure what building hospitals in Egypt has to do with him being a petulant spoilt child and dragging the club through the mud, Robertson has been in the bench all season but has been professional throughout. He’s a football player not bob hope.
08 Dec 2025 19:50:38
Good to hear it Salah.
08 Dec 2025 19:53:02
Glad to hear that, Salah. I always look out for your profile pic. You wouldn't be the same if you were someone else. Or would you?!
08 Dec 2025 19:55:53
Sean Dundee. Mo is a top professional, he's the fittest at the club, works hard at maintaining his fitness, that's why at 33 he got a £400 k contract . so what he said things about his situation. Slot is tearing the club down to Brendan Rodgers levels n seems to have sympathy on here, we don't sack managers mantra I keep hearing on here, Play players in their rightful positions and make us play hard n fast from the off n watch the team fly up the table n watch Mo bang the goals in n I think he has been scapegoated 100%, now everyone is talking about what Mo said instead of screaming from the rooftops how rubbish we are.
08 Dec 2025 19:40:52
ED001 Trent is a bit different, as a Scouser who knows the club n fans i thought he was wrong they way he left . he could have went the year bfr or signed a contract n left the next year . just my view on him.
{Ed001's Note - I understand and agree, but it is difficult to get too angry, imo, when the club is happy to discard players out of hand when it suits them.}
08 Dec 2025 20:05:26
“Salah hasn’t been scapegoated he’s been dropped. ”
Actually it’s both.
Salah has been dropped but he is also the only notable one to be “dropped”.
That’s important because he by far and away hasn’t been the biggest issue. Both Konate and Macca have been worse performers and in Konates case he has been actively harmful at times.
The amount of people at the weekend “this is on Konate, not on slot” drove me mad. Don’t blame a donkey for being a donkey. Blame the bloke who keeps picking him.
So no Mo can’t complain about being dropped but it’s entirely fair to point out there are others who have played worse than he has who have been treated better than he has.
By being the only one “dropped”, especially when there are others that aren’t being called out, you are basically saying that Mo was the problem. That’s the definition of scapegoat.
08 Dec 2025 20:10:03
Strom, I'm saying how rubbish we are, and I'm also saying Salah was bang out of order. Both can be spoke about at the same time.
08 Dec 2025 20:52:08
Totally agree ed1 they scapegoat Salah who was our star man for years I including last year. KONATE refuses to sign and plays terrible yet the manager won’t drop him and they continue to try and get him to sign. What kind of message does that send. Slots lost the plot as has Hughes.
08 Dec 2025 21:19:36
Salah did all Nunez' running? ?
I thought that was all Nunez had to offer.
08 Dec 2025 21:44:36
ED001.very true.
08 Dec 2025 21:49:47
Rome . he hasn't been playing well but so haven't 9 or 10 others, yet our top goalscorer for the last 7 odd years is treated like a naughty schoolboy for daring to speak out . i don't think he's out order myself, how on earth Slot is still here is a bigger mystery then Konate still playing in the first team .
if we were playing fantastic n Salah moaned because he was out the team then fair enough it would be all about him then but come if Slot decided to play like he did against Madrid n Villa, Salah would be in double figures by now.
08 Dec 2025 22:13:04
Strom, you can spin things how you want, Salah was bang out of order. Mac Allister has been benched, so as Ekitike, so as Robertson. You knuckle down and fight to get your place back. Whatever he did before shouldn't guarantee him a place in the side.
Most folk on here wanted him dropped, me included. Given the mess we are in, as a senior pro he should've been helping rally the troops, instead he turned it into all about him. Shameful.
09 Dec 2025 00:02:04
None of us know exactly what's going on except those involved. I don't think Salah has done this just over being on the bench. Hclearly talked about someone wnting him out of the club. As far as form is concerned, yes Salah hasn't been playing well, but Konate, Gakpo, VVD, Macca although he has struggled recovering from a hernia op, but some of them haven't been "Dropped" As far Slot, the cock up he has made of this season he should be gone.
Look at the players in training, seemed very happy with Mo.
09 Dec 2025 01:47:04
Rome . we can all spin things round like you are now to suit our arguments. if you've heard that Slot n Hughes want him out, why on earth wouldn't he say something, he never called the manager he was saying why he isn't in the team etc, when we aren't scoring or creating, then we have konate playing like he is n not even signed a contract n wants out, Gakpo, Macallister, gravenberch have all been well below par this year n I agree salah has to but if you want to score you get the best out of your top striker that's bad management.
I don't have an issue that he spoke publicly,