08 Dec 2025 18:54:50
In this whole Salah situation I can’t stress enough the importance of not letting your best players enter the last 12 months of their contracts and I’d argue that has got us to where we are now with it all blowing up.
We allowed Salah to enter his last 12 months and took the circus that went with it. But it backed the club into a corner. We couldn’t allow him to leave for nothing so we had to tie him down.
We have then built a squad in the summer without him in mind but now have him effectively floating around the fringes. Sat on 400k but not part of the ‘plan’. I use that term loosely as regardless we’ve been poor.
Start of the season slot had a plan on how he wanted to play. He must of done as that is supposedly what convinced Wirtz. However we tried to shoe horn all the new players + Salah and it was all a bit off. But it all stems back to having no option but to renew. If we had sorted it 12 months prior, maybe we would have sold him.
I’m not saying for a second Salah is the only problem, certainly not a scapegoat that his comment made out. However, poor running and decision making above has definitely had a hand in this.
If Salah is to go in Jan, I hope he starts vs Brighton. The least he deserves is 90 mins of being serenaded regardless of what’s gone on this week. And let’s be honest, we are hardly in a position where a token gesture is going to hamper our season.
08 Dec 2025 19:15:46
If Salah would have left 12 months earlier (as you’re implying we should have sold him) we wouldn’t have won the league. You’re welcome.
08 Dec 2025 19:37:23
Getting a little bit sick of all of them to be honest
This “poor me” look they’ve all got on their faces from players to manager.
08 Dec 2025 19:48:45
Frode im talking about this summer. He should have been renewed at least 12 months prior. To allow us the flexibility in the summer just gone. But because we let it run down we either had to let him go for nowt or renew.
Slot/ the club have clearly built with life without him. But right now we are in a place where we have it all and like the PSG team of a few years back with no cohesion.
08 Dec 2025 23:35:11
I get the sentiment WY Red, I feel the frustration, but the actual reality is that it is not in the clubs hands.
Players decide which contract they accept and whether they want to run it down or not.
It is not in the clubs hands to sell a player against their will or to force a player to sign a contract.