03 Dec 2025 17:57:29
Hearing word that Salah is benched. Huge statement from Slot.
03 Dec 2025 19:03:12
You weren't wrong, im going for a 3-1 win tonight.
03 Dec 2025 19:05:01
He should be as well. He’s struggled sadly, don’t know what up with him but he can’t complain just be ready… teams out and I think that’s right and good management.
03 Dec 2025 19:09:11
Good. I don't understand how he's been so untouchable and how his petulance at being subbed has ever been tolerated. This season he must have broken records for possession lost stats. To be clear, this isn't to take away the legacy, but Mo Salah is not as big as Liverpool Football Club. Good job Tris took away the down vote button, by the way.
03 Dec 2025 19:32:44
Mo won the league for us last season following the conversation he had with Slot. He is also the most affected by the changes to the side, which can no longer be built around him.
People need to remember what he's done for 9 season's before uttering any negativity though. Im all for him being used sparingly, and even to sell him to the Saudi's in the summer if he'll go but let's keep it real.
03 Dec 2025 21:04:41
Well we've been absolutely fantastic without him, haven't we?
03 Dec 2025 21:44:52
All this rubbish that Salah has lost his legs blah blah blah. You don’t go from the most G/ A to a few months later being rubbish. It’s Slot’s inept tactics that are the root cause.
03 Dec 2025 22:19:06
Slot should be benched.
03 Dec 2025 22:34:03
I don’t think anybody with any sense is saying that Salah is rubbish @Frode. I think Salah has shown that he is quite a sensitive person in the past - when Egypt lost in the AFCON Final and then a month or so later failed to qualify for the World Cup - and he took quite a while to regain his confidence / form. This season he has been impacted by the death of Diogo - as shown by the tears in front of the Kop at the end of our first home PL game, allied to the fact that the new set-up means he’s no longer the focal point of the attack has damaged his confidence again. He is never (fully) effective when his confidence is shot and a new factor is that he has been building up the years on the clock, which almost invariably means the peak playing days get fewer and further between.
I wholeheartedly agree that he was the major factor in us winning the league and I still think he has a role to play - impact player off the bench against tired defences perhaps - but at present he doesn’t merit a starting spot in the team.
03 Dec 2025 22:52:12
The fixation on Salah amazes me.
If you have a go at VVD, Macca, Konate, Gakpo, as much as you have a go at Salah, then I'd agree.
Our results and performances are not down to 1 single player. But because our performances are so rubbish, it's all down to our manager.
03 Dec 2025 23:24:42
WDW I don’t agree with anything you’ve said. Yeah Salah hasn’t been great but not a single player in the squad has been great, minus maybe Szobo. The lunacy of putting our bad form down to Salah has been laughable. I’ll reiterate, it’s Slot’s tactics that are to blame for Salah’s form.
Salah needs quick and direct balls into feet or the channels. Not 30,000 passes where the entire front line are drowned out. Why do you think Isak only has about five touches a game.
03 Dec 2025 23:59:16
Frode you're talking rubbish. Salah is not the same player. We got away with his lack of pressing and defensive work last season. Not this one.
04 Dec 2025 05:45:43
Salah said himself that we Slot first came in, he told Salah that he doesn't have to work as much defensively as Klopp wanted him to.
So Frode has a point wrt the blame being the tactics. Yes, it may not be the sole reason, but Salah can't be blamed for something that he is instructed to do
It's just not Salah, its most of the squad that has fallen off. that points to tactics and training.
04 Dec 2025 07:13:17
It isn’t solely tactics with Mo. You can see when he receives the ball there’s hesitation, he makes more misjudgements, and he just can’t beat a man. They’re all major problems with a wide player. I don’t know if we could tweak his position slightly and bring him infield a bit, but apart from that it’s difficult to see how he gets rebooted.
04 Dec 2025 07:52:01
Mo was given the platform last season. I don’t think it’s right to say he carried us to the league. As we can see now and in other seasons we’ve gone on bad run of form, he isn’t carrying sh*t.
04 Dec 2025 08:09:01
Ste G as caretaker for Xmas. gets us 4th via blood, guts and effort. Alonso in the summer to add the artisan factor, if he flunks at Real.
04 Dec 2025 11:48:35
All the players have certainly lost confidence even VVD and Mo but the tactics that Slot uses are just boring and pedestrian i don't even think the players like the style, we look good when we play fast but this is just drudgery. and the old saying about the definition of madness .
doing the same things over and over and expecting a different result really rings true.
the Klopp era seems a million miles away now.
If we could just put a run together we would be up there but it won't happen with these tactics.
04 Dec 2025 20:00:03
I thought VVD was very poor against Sunderland. Sloppy pass gave the ball away that led to their goal and he seemed to be spending most of his time throwing his hands up in the air and complaining. For the team (and his country’s) captain his attitude was very poor.
05 Dec 2025 07:23:03
WDW so because VVD gave a pass away and threw his hands up he’s a captain with a poor attitude. Stop blaming the players.