Liverpool banter 3

06 Dec 2025 22:07:02
People having a go at Mo Salah saying he's been awful n his recent interview n I agree he hasn't been playing well. but why is that. why has our top goalscorer for the last 7/ 8 all of a sudden can't score or assist, its got to be the way the team plays n that's down to the manager n coaching staff .

even when he's played bad in the past, he always scores or assists, now he might leave on a sour note n that's just not right.

06 Dec 2025 22:15:23
Exactly this.

06 Dec 2025 22:18:23
Or it could be he’s not quite as good as he used to be, or has lost a bit of focus. It’s on him.

When you’re one of the best footballers in the world playing in the same position and formation you’ve always played in, the excuse of “the tactics don’t suit him” is nonsense. Tactics don’t have any impact on ability to control the ball, hold off a defender, go past your man, execute a pass or beat the first man with a cross. Salah’s fundamentals have evaporated this season; that’s not tactical. Not saying I would want him to leave or that I don’t think he can rediscover it, but he needs to look much more closely at himself rather than ranting about being thrown under the bus.

For the same reason, I’m not willing to accept “it’s a different system to Bournemouth” as an explanation for Kerkez being so abysmal.

06 Dec 2025 22:21:22
Mo has to be the only world class superstar who needs the team to play at a world class level for him to perform.

06 Dec 2025 22:41:32
We sold 2 fast horses and left with the cart and expect to win
Diaz and Nunez speed did help.
Now no one afraid of our counter attack.
What a vision
What an appointment
What a director without any direction
May God help.

06 Dec 2025 22:53:31
Kit we have a lot of speed for transition. Dom was the 5th fastest in the Bundesliga before coming to us. Hugo Isak and Wirtz have pace to burn. Diaz wasn't the fastest following his injury. Nunez had pace but couldn't hit a barn door with a shovel.

06 Dec 2025 21:53:40
ED001 what do you make of salahs comments? I am hurting enough, I want this to stop.

{Ed001's Note - he is pointing out that the problem is not just him.}

06 Dec 2025 22:04:16
He's bang out of order, Ed.

{Ed001's Note - is he?}

06 Dec 2025 22:06:49
It’s going to be a busy few days, Ed. Hope you’re ready!

{Ed001's Note - yeah I think sleep might have to take a nap.}

06 Dec 2025 21:08:30
Ultimately he is 33 and been rubbish for many many games for this and last season.

His legs are gone and it's time to move on.

06 Dec 2025 22:10:36
How is he out of order? I think he's right. Good on him for speaking out.

06 Dec 2025 22:11:04
He is spot on, salah is worth 100 Slots.

He needs to go now before we lose one of our best ever players.

Salah is the least of our problems and being used as a scapegoat.


Have we been any better without him? .

06 Dec 2025 22:13:15
Good luck Ed's. You're going to need it.

06 Dec 2025 22:20:19
Yes, mate. I've no idea what goes on behind the scenes, I'm just a paying supporter. What I do know is no player is bigger than our illustrious club and never has been. We are in a big mess at the moment and we didn't need the Egyptian Sulk to come out and make matters worse.

He's one of our all time greats, but it doesn't excuse him for this. People will no doubt disagree, but, as always I don't give a flying fish. I'll be there again next Saturday singing myself hoarse because, no matter what, the club comes first before any individual.

06 Dec 2025 22:22:35
And right one cue, Mo comes out randomly at the mixed zone and makes it all about him.

06 Dec 2025 22:32:19
I don't agree that Salah's out of order at all. He's been our best player since he arrived, broke all sorts of records whilst playing for our club and deserves to leave the club on the very best of terms. He is up there with the best to ever put on a Liverpool shirt and without doubt the best in my lifetime.

For a long time players left us as they were hitting their peak. Salah hit his peak when he joined us and gave us his best years, peaking again last season.

06 Dec 2025 22:41:35
Theres no point backing a 33 yr old who is clearly on the way down and has shown he cares more about himself than the team. Both him and Slot need to go.

06 Dec 2025 22:54:55
If Salah cared about the club he wouldn’t be whinging about being thrown under the bus he be saying he’s disappointed with being left out and that he will work hard to get back in the team.

Like most reds I love Salah but he’s out of order. We are in a slump and he knows full well that this will make it worse. He’s massively gone down in my estimation tonight, I couldn’t care less how he feels he should keep that in house. Creating a media storm around himself is selfishness at its best. He’s shown himself to be what he is, interested only in himself and not the club or his fellow players or the fans.

Disgraceful behaviour from such an experienced professional.

06 Dec 2025 23:10:59
Top post, Dundee.

06 Dec 2025 21:52:41
Slot and gvb have single handed ruined this club and dragged it into the gutters. Their lack of tactical knowledge, poor training intensity, game management and player relations is truly abysmal. We are a laughable joke of a club. From club World champions and champions league league winners and Premier league winners to mid table obscurity after spending half a billion pounds is truly the definition of incompetence and out of your depth small club ability.


Go now and never return. Salah is right .

06 Dec 2025 21:55:06
Salahs own performances and efforts haven't been good enough.

06 Dec 2025 22:02:08
I'm with you King.

Slot said "at 3-2, we didn't need a goal, just controlling the game". That tells a lot about him and his thinking.

06 Dec 2025 22:06:07
Batman nobody bar Dom has been good enough this season. One or two like Grav are close but so many are so far off. It can't be a bad coincidence. There is no belief in what they are doing.

06 Dec 2025 22:27:06
Well we didn't in fairness Haizan.

06 Dec 2025 22:33:37
Eds. do you think there are more players as unhappy with Slot as Mo. Only its just Mo finally had enough and been the one to speak out.

{Ed001's Note - yes, defo. There have been for a while - Ekitike's over the top celebration which got him booked was about his unhappiness with Slot. He does not have Klopp's man management skills and is gradually losing the whole squad.}

06 Dec 2025 22:54:10
Then Ed it's just a matter of time.

06 Dec 2025 23:13:14
Nobody has klopps man management skills, that can't be a reason to criticise Slot or any other future lfc managers. Klopp was unique. I will point out out it still didn make him above criticism on these pages though, suppose no one is perfect.

06 Dec 2025 23:14:00
Kingkev10 - I'm not saying you're wrong, but how do you know that the training intensity is poor. I could imagine training isn't as intense as in pre-season, but when we're playing 3 games a week, how tough should it be.

06 Dec 2025 21:52:00
Salah seems more than happy to do interviews when it comes to wanting a bumper contract, etc. But, when it comes to poor performances, and senior players having to take interviews, he is nowhere to be found.

Van Dijk, as awful as he has been, at least had the balls to stand up and take interviews, shielding the other players, but when has Salah ever done that. Never, only when it is convenient for him.

06 Dec 2025 21:56:28
With you, Mango.

06 Dec 2025 21:51:56
Emotions are high, for everyone.
More so for the players, as we must remember they are humans and are still grieving Diogo’s loss.

BUT,
What Mo has said there, however true it might be, is an absolute disgrace given the context. The last thing we need is behind the scenes issues being made public. This is from a guy who spoke so much last year when he needed a contract. “I don’t know if I’ll stay, don’t know what’s happening, we’ll see, nobody is talking to me” Leading everyone on.
Gets his massive contract of 400 something thousand
Then goes silent and says nothing when things are horrendous! Dosent stand up for the team. Dosent take responsibility, Dosent be one of the leaders.

Decides then to Throws a hissy fit because he’s been RIGHTFULLY dropped. When he’s played it’s been like playing with ten men this year. That’s the harsh truth

Disgraceful attitude for someone I had such fond feelings for. Always will be the Egyptian king, but that is unacceptable on every level tonight. What does he think this will do? Incredibly sour and unprofessional.

The less said on Arne the better.
I find myself growing a bitterness and dislike towards him now.
We are miserable, and it won’t get better.

Things are going to get really messy now I feel.

06 Dec 2025 21:59:36
Stop with thw jota crap! We’ve all
Lost someone and I’d bet someone closer then jota! We got on with it we’d no choice jobs to fill bills to pay kids to feed! A few wet wipe millionaires are struggling? Well remove them from what ever!
This teams a mess and it’s nothing got to do
With jota god rest his soul.

06 Dec 2025 22:07:56
Agreed Jay. If anything it should be a motivator when u need that extra 2-3%.

06 Dec 2025 22:10:20
Jay Dub you are missing the point.

Yes we’ve all lost someone and yes we’ve all had to get on with it but have we been the best version of ourselves whilst we’re doing it?

Thats what we are seeing. They’ve all got on with it, they’ve all turned up for training every day but it has affected them. There’s no shame in that.

06 Dec 2025 21:47:22
Im on a little break in the lakes n watched the game with 2 Leeds fans. even at 2 nil they fancied their chances n as soon as I saw Konate diving in for a ball that was going out , I knew they'd get back in .

they were amazed how bad we are this season, all I could do was agree with them. sorry state of affairs for us.

06 Dec 2025 22:08:55
Let me guess u were buying the beers at 0-2 then ended up splitting the bill.

06 Dec 2025 22:46:38
Red flyer . I was happy to get the drinks in at 2 nil. at the end I wishing they would just F off ha.

06 Dec 2025 23:10:02
I love getting up there Stroms I like the Ambleside hotel. Hopefully you're getting some good walks in.

07 Dec 2025 00:17:06
Red flyer. its my favourite place to go, love it . we tried to walk the grassmere/ rydal one today but it had overflowed, couldn't walk the usual paths, I actually passed that hotel today.

06 Dec 2025 21:45:08
First time poster. Long time reader, albeit suffering reader this season. We've been in finer fettle!

Any truth to the posts flying round about Salah being unhappy and thinking he's thrown under the bus?

06 Dec 2025 21:49:59
Reguardless of slot, salah should be sold in January or most likely the summer. There's no way you can have this next season. Get some money for him, probably from Saudi. Likewise van dijk. He's another one who will cause problems if he's benched next year.

06 Dec 2025 21:50:44
Well given that’s exactly what he said I think there’s a good chance it’s true.

06 Dec 2025 21:52:26
Just read this tonight, he wasn’t doing anything when in the team.

06 Dec 2025 22:00:31
Two of the best players in the league should be sold suddenly Batman… ok. Isn’t it funny how they turn bad overnight, nicely coinciding with Slots overnight tactical changes that he refuses to adjust or adapt. Utter rubbish you’re spouting.

06 Dec 2025 22:35:48
Frode i love Salah, adore the man but as much as he hasn't been alone in been largely poor this year the standards he's played to cannot purely be put down to tactics either because it suits people who want Slot out to say so. Tactics don't make you constantly miscontrol, hit every cross out for goal kicks, constantly miss the target with decent chances and close down and track back halfheartedly.

like i said i love Salah, i happen to back Slot aswell but we can't just bury our heads to try and make the point we want to. it has to be fair.

06 Dec 2025 21:43:56
I mentioned certain potential managers being able (or not) to manage certain big personalities in our dressing room.
Mohammed salahs interview is exactly what I think most of the fans knew what was there. That interview is nothing short of disgraceful. Unfortunately for slot with the results and performances being dire, salahs comments will gain more sympathy than criticism.

This club is struggling atm and this guys ego knows no bounds. Salah and konate should be both sold in January.
Salah does the odd interview when he's motm or looking a contract.
This club needs a reset.

06 Dec 2025 21:55:59
He’s also not really wrong is he?

Macca and Konate have both been worse than Mo this season overall and yet only one of those three has been dropped for three in a row.

He never said he hasn’t played poorly but that he’s being made the scapegoat and he has a bit of a point.

Whether he should say it at all as a senior player is entirely another matter.

06 Dec 2025 22:16:16
Telling what many believe is the truth is now disgraceful?

06 Dec 2025 21:43:55
That Salah interview stinks. For me it’s simple. He has been as poor as anybody this season. Actually goes back to the last six weeks of last season.

His status protected him, probably fairly, from being dropped sooner. He’s no longer in possession of the position and that is fair based on performances. Whilst the team continues to struggle, the player who has taken his position on the right has been one of the few highlights.

Earn it back. Wait for your chance off the bench (he didn’t take the one he got in midweek) to prove that you’re still the man.

That interview had Ronaldo vibes, all about the individual. Disappointing if it’s all going to end sourly for Mo.

06 Dec 2025 21:48:04
He’s been poor cos slot tactics are obviously stifling him
How come all of a sudden he ain’t scoring but also not assisting

And ow suddenly he is supposed to protect. Bradley more? U guys are a joke.

06 Dec 2025 20:49:57
You know nothing. Mo is speaking as the figurehead, the person even Virgil looks up to. It’s not for his own sake he’s speaking.

06 Dec 2025 21:52:43
Player power. He, virg and konate can't be playing here next season. They have to be at new clubs. Konate tried to do the club over off the field and did the club and himself over on the field. Virg is not a proper leader and is on vast decline now. Get money for salah and virg in the summer.

06 Dec 2025 22:01:23
I don’t agree he’s speaking out for the team. This is all about Mo Salah, make no mistake about that. Recall the time he picked a very visible row with Klopp on the touchline because he’d been put on the bench.

He’s one of those players who wants the individual accolades and that’s what drives him above all else. Obviously that also comes with huge benefit for the team he’s playing for.

06 Dec 2025 21:42:17
My God. That surely is the absolute end of it!

06 Dec 2025 20:46:34
Mo is the guy everyone comes to. He sits in the same spot at the coffee station and listens to everyone, hands out the drinks. His words are on behalf of the whole team. Slot has lost the dressing room. That’s the message.

06 Dec 2025 21:58:49
No, salahs ego has been bruised. Trent used to be very confident around the place too because these players are only ever told how "special" they are. Trents like a mouse at the new club. When you've nothing to prove anymore and it's not going well, suddenly it's someonelses fault. Salah is not the same player and can be benched by any manager that sees fit.

06 Dec 2025 22:16:45
Slot hasn't lost the dressing room, the dressing room was cleaved when "someone from the club wants me out" made it known to Slot that Salah is to be sold ("I already told my mom and dad, Brighton might be the last game" ) . I know it looks like I'm making many assumptions but if you think Salah didn't prepare to say all these and it can't just be because Slot hasn't played him for 3 games ("What happens in the dressing room should stay in the dressing room" ) .

This is much deeper that we all think, I believe Salah is ranting at the owners / Richard and Edwards as he's learnt they now consider him surplus 👍.

07 Dec 2025 01:04:41
Of course he's referring to them all Tobi! They're all involved in this total FU!

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