Liverpool banter 4

08 Dec 2025 20:51:50
So what do people think the broken promises were lol

I think has was given assurances that we would continue to play in a way that would suit his strengths and we'd defend around him.

08 Dec 2025 21:03:11
If promises are not in the contract then they’re not promises.

08 Dec 2025 21:03:12
And he’d play every game without question.

08 Dec 2025 21:07:36
I think he's just thrown his toys out the pram because he's been on the bench for 3 games in a row. I can't see anybody promising him he'd start every game.

I understand his frustration the only player dropped like that when the rest of the team have been pretty poor. If he wants to stay he hasn't done himself any favours.

Like Ed said, English isn't his first language so we shouldn't pick apart his words too much. Although it is difficult to not.

08 Dec 2025 21:12:24
I wonder what "thrown under the bus" means in Arabic?

08 Dec 2025 21:18:56
But you can’t drop all of them Arken. Salah is a luxury player who doesn’t defend. When the stuff hits the fan it stands to reason he’ll be the one to miss out until we get back on an even keel.

It’s ok that he’s annoyed, it’s not ok for him to cause this rubbish storm by whinging about it to the press.

08 Dec 2025 21:29:31
Slot is being monstered for his post match comments. Virgil too. They both contractually have to do this - what makes Mo a tool in my view is that he has never once fronted up, and said we need to battle more etc.

He only speaks when he wants something - and this time he wants the team to implode unless he is given a starting berth, whether or not he puts in a shift.

Great player, but as a team player, he wrecks the boat. Yes, Mane was possibly a twit - but Mo is the most self-serving LFC player I have seen. Any rare interview he gives it’s about him, and his records.

Barnes, Rush and co never like that. Maybe that drive is necessary for success, but it is unpleasant to see. Graeme would monster him.

{Ed001's Note - Souness? The man who jumped ship for money? The guy they called Charlie for his champagne lifestyle? You really have no idea about these people at all.}

08 Dec 2025 21:34:02
Well who knows what assurances he got but do you think he's lying about that?

08 Dec 2025 21:41:50
arken - I think in this case, what he is communicating isn't difficult to decipher. It's not like he was breaking down pyhtagaros theorem lol

yes, for someone wtih English as second language there is always a layer of difficulty but I thought he was pretty clear.

08 Dec 2025 21:43:03
You don’t put promises in a contract Ron.

08 Dec 2025 21:48:10
I think he knew exactly what he was saying, and had prepared his speech well in advance.

He was not in an emotive rage: this was a prepared monologue, tailored with his agent.

We knew his was coming. The massive bolshie he threw when subbed by Doak v Chelsea really hurt us in that game, and then his fit against Klopp at West Ham. Any dropping of Mo was going to be a nightmare.

We have benefited so much from a player who is so selfish. He had to be dropped: he simply wasn’t pressing, or making any off the ball runs. As he says, he had nothing to prove, and was entitled to start.

Sorry, Mo: you are only as good as your last game. And this club is not a tribute act band for players who feel they deserve, but don’t earn a place in the team.

08 Dec 2025 21:55:27
I agree completely Sean, was just trying to understand why he was frustrated. I think he deserved to be dropped, and if it's just him being on the bench 7 days it's pathetic to make it all about him. It's not like he was never going to play again, and he should have done his talking on the pitch.

Faith - I know, was just trying to give the benefit of the doubt lol.

I've taken longer than most to wanting Slot to go, but all Salah has done is made it so Slot won't get sacked until this has blown over or Salah is gone.

My first reaction was just to get them both gone, and I haven't changed my mind!

08 Dec 2025 22:22:23
Souness did an exclusive interview with The Sun. The interview was published on the anniversary of Hillsborough.

08 Dec 2025 22:21:30
Bit unfair Ed. Just saying that Graeme would have monstered him in the dressing room - which he has now done in public.

Graeme was never a champagne charlie for us. In fact, I found all the press calling him a champagne charlie at the time a bit xenophobic. He was really hated for playing in Italy. Different times.

{Ed001's Note - his teammates called him that. He was very much one. The press simply took his nickname from the Liverpool players.}

08 Dec 2025 23:12:48
He did Rigsby, but has apologised repeatedly. Personally, I don’t think he was in his right mind during his whole time managing us. He never made this excuse, but I will for him: people with a bust heart often behave irrationally. Post heart surgery Graeme a way more measured chap, than in pre surgery years.

I still think he was the most disastrous manager we ever had, but I still adore him from his days as captain. And I still treasure his emotion when we won the title during covid. Complicated chap, but he is such a titan: incredibly tough upbringing, and then became our captain.

I thought the recent doc on Kenny so boring. One on Graeme would be so more interesting.

08 Dec 2025 23:32:50
Irish Rover - you do put promises in a contract. Promises about pay, bonuses, fees, code of conduct etc.

At the end of the day, Salah is an employee like all the others and promises which are not in the contract don’t mean jack.

08 Dec 2025 23:41:34
Monster, Salah might go on to apologise for what he said, too. Everybody makes mistakes.

Souness was very much a Champagne Charlie. I've read about him living in a hotel and going out every night. I believe he even led the players on an afternoon out before a night match! We'd already wrapped the League, I must add, though.
It could all be untrue but there is a lot of evidence of Souness enjoying a night out. Tbf, it didn't hinder him too much because he was a physical specimen. I've heard of someone with links to United being very impressed by his physique.

09 Dec 2025 00:42:41
Rigsby and Ed, you cannot expect me to be rational when it comes to Mad Graeme. Utter lunatic, appalling manager, but seems to have transformed into a top fella?

08 Dec 2025 20:30:39


RedDawn has submitted an article entitled, Manager Options For Liverpool FC

08 Dec 2025 20:52:11
decent list but mate it took a lot to continue after you mentioned Ten Hag 😂.

08 Dec 2025 20:57:21
It will be interesting to see what Liverpool do should player power wins out and Alonso gets the boot at Madrid. “IF” he was our top choice last time but lost out…. given our current struggles and if the club are considering relieving Slot of his duties but not fully committed to that strategy- if Alonso becomes available and would be interested in LFC job would that convince Hughes and Edwards and FSG to make the change.


Alonso is struggling with his high press and hard work rate demands in Madrid. Ancellotti warned him that would be the case and said that Madrid was the hardest dressing room he’d ever managed - for someone with that kind of experience is saying that then it was always going to struggle to win them over.

08 Dec 2025 20:57:47
Thank you for the article. For me, I wouldn't be interested in Gerrard or Conte at all.

I would be interested to see what any of Alonso, Inzaghi, or Irraola could do. I find the Stuttgart Coach as an interesting option as well.

Thanks again!

08 Dec 2025 21:05:03
AZ, believe me. I was as shaken as you when the AI spat out ETH as an option.

I don't think he's a terrible manager, but would not likely take the job on an interim basis and hasn't got what it takes for a long term appointment.

08 Dec 2025 21:07:28
Appreciate the analysis, but there is no way Gerrard improves the dressing room.
Squad would think he’s just a passenger; no charisma. A sergeant major talking about a previous war.

Not a manager I particularly want, but I am amazed de Zerbi has so dropped off the radar. I think he ain’t right at all for the club, but I would expect him to be a front-runner, along with Ireola. But I would stick with Slot.

08 Dec 2025 21:10:07
I was never much for Gerrard as interim but if Ange and Eric are the alternatives, he is looking a far more attractive option I must say.

I think there are more managers than we can think of to be honest but I personally quite like the idea of Klopp were he to be interested only in interim.

If Carra said that Inzaghi would be willing to take interim, that would be another choice I'd be very interested in.

Maybe interim does not appeal to both and that has to be accepted too. I just have a bad feeling Gerrard will end badly. Not sure he gives the lift people think he will. Maybe the fans for a tiny bit but not sure he has it to turn this ship.

08 Dec 2025 21:16:53
For clarity, my comments are at the very end, the suggestions about managers are all from the AI so don't shoot the messenger 😂.

08 Dec 2025 21:48:07
I asked AI to come up with some names, Peter Boaz was the one it mentioned as the best pick. Some interesting names on the list, Zidane, Rykarrd, Xavi, Flick, Rafa, Blanc, Sousa, Setien, Valverde, Fabre, Tedesco and Martino. What do you think Ed’s, would you have anyone on that list as interim?

{Ed001's Note - which Sousa? Because Paulo Sousa manages my local club here, Shabab Al Ahli and is very reminiscent of Klopp, but it is a bit of a leap to put him in charge of us. He does play a high aggressive press and high intensity footie though and he has charisma too. Won 4 trophies last season as well.

Rijkaard is hopeless, lazy bugger who does little. I wouldn't touch Tedesco either, despite him graduating top of the class above Nagelsmann when getting coaching badges. Zidane plays terrible footie, no thank you.

Flick, Xavi, Setien and Martino are interesting suggestions that I would put as maybes.}

08 Dec 2025 22:20:56
Have things got so bad that Ten Hag is even a remote consideration by AI?
Alonso would be my wish, and if that means Gerrard as interim until the summer then so be it. We would at least have some fight under Gerrard and that it what looks to be sorely lacking right now.

08 Dec 2025 22:53:10
Quite frankly, defecating into your hands and clapping with your mouth wide open is a far more palatable option than Gerrard, ten Hag or Postecoglu managing us. All fail merchants and shouldn’t be remotely considered.

09 Dec 2025 05:45:02
Monster: “Gerrard is so terrible, but hey where is De Zerbi” utter garbage you’re spouting.

09 Dec 2025 05:46:04
VV Gerrard done terrible… he went unbeaten for a season at Rangers, no easy feat ina league dominated by Celtic.

08 Dec 2025 20:00:02
Barnsley at home in the FA Cup for anyone that's missed the draw.

08 Dec 2025 20:03:30
Barnsley favourites then.

08 Dec 2025 20:52:59
U-12s for that game, please.

08 Dec 2025 22:21:58
Could be some game time for Salah 😆.

08 Dec 2025 23:05:04
In fairness Barnsley’s u-12s are half decent!

08 Dec 2025 23:43:55
Do you think Salah will end up at Barnsley, Darwins?

08 Dec 2025 19:31:33
Got to say Slot handled the Salah questions very well. Almost felt for the guy a bit he didn't see the comments coming. I've been as vocal as anyone on here about the manager. At the end of the day, I want to see the club winning and if that's w Slot in charge, so be it.

I do feel he's his own worst enemy and is largely responsible for what's happening on the pitch but hoping for the best so long as he's in charge.

08 Dec 2025 19:14:56
I've lost my faith in Slot. But just watched his press conference. I have to say, he handled it well. He owed the decision re Mo.

I'm gutted we have to wash our pants in public. This is not the Liverpool way.

YNWA.

08 Dec 2025 19:51:48
Ha just posted the same thing. More or less.

08 Dec 2025 20:02:07
Slot did very well indeed, all things considered and I agree Chrissy, it’s not the Liverpool way, far from it actually. Unfortunately Salah has to take his share of the blame for that, no question.


Hard to believe we were PL champions in June and just spent £450 million in the Summer. Never in my wildest dreams (or nightmare) did I think we would have so many issues 6 months later. So bad 😏.

08 Dec 2025 20:02:07
Has he been dealing with a senior player revolt for most of the season though? It’s inevitable that they will be eased out of the team as the new players come in but they need to accept that and even help facilitate it.

Judging by what Mo said he’s not taking that reality too well.

08 Dec 2025 19:10:18
Honest just seen the incredible bulk say Konate is worth £80m 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣

He's not worth a blow on a rag mans trupet lad.

08 Dec 2025 19:20:21
He was joking, Chrissy!

08 Dec 2025 19:30:49
Bloody hell even if that was monopoly money I'd still rather buy the angel of Islington haha.

08 Dec 2025 19:52:49
I think he was talking in Thai Baht.

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.

08 Dec 2025 18:15:54
Salah has lacked class.
No player picks the team.
I would like to see Arne get it right. Its too soon to react.
Len.

08 Dec 2025 18:21:57
Hahaha you’re implying that before Salah’s outburst things were rosey. Salah didn’t start the last two and we were woeful.

08 Dec 2025 18:28:53
Nobody on this site actually knows what's gone on or going on within the squad, yet Salah is the greatest villain in our history. So so many ITK's it appears.
A true Liverpool legend he was never as nasty as Owen and Gerrard's off field escapades. Yet Gerrard is being youted as an interim boss of our great club.

08 Dec 2025 19:07:14
We are unbeaten since Salah has been dropped. Nothing to shout about granted but we lost the previous 3 games 3-0,3-0 and 4-1 with Salah in the team.

I’m not saying it was all Salah’s fault but just giving some context to Frode’s comments about us not being great before Salah’s comments.

You could argue we’ve been better since he was dropped based on the results.

08 Dec 2025 19:09:49
Mcgov, I don't think anyone is saying Salah's the greatest villain in our history, well I'm certainly not. He was bang out of order in my opinion, but not in the same category as Suarez and Diouf, that's for sure.

08 Dec 2025 19:14:43
Salah's done Slot a huge favour cos now half the fans have turned on him and are ignoring the fact that the team did not improve a jot when Salah was dropped.

I never, ever thought I'd side with a player ahead of a Liverpool manager, but I can absolutely understand him feeling like he's been scapegoated. If Salah deserved to be benched 3 games in a row and only playing 45 minutes off the bench, you can make a case for basically all of the first team apart from Ali and Dom deserving it too.

Yet Salah's the one that gets dropped and now the pundits and boffins come out with tired, cliched tripe like: "his outburst was a disgrace. He should keep his head down and *earn* his place! ". Just like everyone else has earned their place in the past 2 months, yeah? Konate's really earned his place by defending like he's never seen a football before, hasn't he? Mac Allister's really earned his place by falling over whenever there's a stiff breeze. Gakpo's earned his place by being a one trick pony.

Once again, if a title winning team turns to shyte overnight, then maybe the problem isn't the players?

08 Dec 2025 19:22:02
I would say that Slot is doing a bad enough job on his own that it wasn’t necessary for Salah to go blabbing to the press. It wasnt very well thought out. He was going to the AFCON so why not just keep his counsel? Slot could well have been gone potentially by the time he came back🤷‍♂️.
He certainly wasn’t thinking of his teammates either.

08 Dec 2025 19:54:09
Mcgoveb, never forget that Gerrard slapped in a transfer request straight after we won the European Cup, to me that was far worse. Yet he’s being touted as a manager. Mind blowing.

08 Dec 2025 19:56:44
Re Salah. I think, just my opinion, the biggest thing Mo said was, someone wants him out of the club. Who is that and why? . If that's true then its terrible. I normally would be against players speaking out but if there is something going on like trying to force a player out i can't blame him. I Slots preeser he said he told Mo at training he wasnt going to Milan, i thought they said there had been a meeting after training and the club, Hughes? had decided this is what's happening, and was supported by Slot.

Not Slot had told him? I hope this can be sorted out. i've not always agreed with Salah and his attitude, but i hope he can leave in a good way whenever that is.

08 Dec 2025 20:28:23
Victor I’d have no problem with Salah if he slapped in a transfer request. At least then everyone knows where they stand. He should’ve had it out with Slot and if he didn’t like the answers then ask to leave. There’s nothing wrong with that.

What you don’t do is whinge to the press in an effort to destabilise an already ailing team and manager. It’s cowardly, calculated and underhand and I for one expect him to apologise unreservedly or get out of the club.

08 Dec 2025 20:48:16
Didn't improve a jot but the three games before Mo didn't start we lost 3-0, 3-0 and 4-1

Maybe we improved just a jot.

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,

08 Dec 2025 17:15:10
It’s probably been mentioned but I’ve not seen it so here goes: I’ve got a feeling that we’re waiting for Alonso to get sacked at Madrid… then we sack Slot and appoint Alonso while only having to pay off Slot and not Madrid.

08 Dec 2025 17:32:54
But what if Alonso wants a break like Klopp had after Dortmund before coming to us?

08 Dec 2025 17:55:11
Must be hard for him, I mean he’s into his 3rd season as a manager.

Bless him.

08 Dec 2025 18:20:34
I would like to think he would jump at the chance, didn't Klopp cut his break short to join us?

08 Dec 2025 18:53:42
Zed, that is what people seem to forget or flat out, do not consider.

08 Dec 2025 16:07:34
Does anyone have the crazy feeling that this Salah controversy will galvanize the team, and we will start seeing much better fight and desire? It just feels like a pivotal moment. The tactics continue to be infuriating, but the team has also been so brittle recently.

Every time we go down, or concede one it looks like we will concede more. I have this sneaky feeling that this saga will do us some real good in the short term.

08 Dec 2025 16:17:51
I don't think so esp. with the other points you raised in your post, @koparmy.

08 Dec 2025 16:21:12
The decision to omit Mohamed Salah from Liverpool’s squad to play Inter Milan has been attributed to Richard Hughes and Fenway Sports Group as well as Arne Slot.

Huge the silvertongued cunning linguist is at it again.

4d chess.

08 Dec 2025 16:21:38
Well I hope you are right, as it looks like Salah has played his last game for us. It's a pity that he leaves like this, because now his legacy is tarnished.

08 Dec 2025 16:24:49
I love your optimism but for me this is just the next phase of the inevitable process - the start of the public dressing room revolt.

08 Dec 2025 16:26:22
I hope you're right but sounds like wishful thinking.

08 Dec 2025 16:49:54
Elliot his legacy isn’t tarnished as I’ll lay the blame at the three amigos who pushed him out.

08 Dec 2025 16:50:19
Only if it results in Slot leaving and Mo staying.

08 Dec 2025 17:22:33
Nah, just widens the ever growing gap between Club and Supporters

Since deliberately chucking the league cup at home infront of our own.

Seems like we’ve lost something and nobody has a single Clue on where the club is heading.

08 Dec 2025 20:50:58
if the players have any respect for the club and the fans, they will.

08 Dec 2025 14:39:21
Salah has to go by the way, forget what he’s done he should never play for the club again, undermining the manager, saying he doesn’t have to earn his place and the strop he threw when Klopp dropped him once also. Make a big example of him and get rid, one bad egg spoils the rest.

08 Dec 2025 14:55:23
I agree. I had hoped that Salah would accept that he’s going to get less game time over his last 2 years and help bring the new players through to keep us successful but he has shown once again he’s only interested in one thing. Mo Salah.

Get him out now we don’t need someone of his stature negatively influencing the rest of the squad.

It makes you wonder if this is something Slot’s been battling the whole season. The new, expensive signings coming in and pushing the old guard’s noses out of joint.

{Ed025's Note - you could be right SD..

08 Dec 2025 15:09:51
Oh dear it sounds like the Salah posters are coming down off the wall. He's been a hell of a player for the club, probably unfortunate not to win a bit more. But his time has come to an end and its time for pastures new.

Personally I thought it was a mistake to give him the bumper new contract at his age. But if the club get £30m+ for him then I suppose it makes sense. Good luck to him.

08 Dec 2025 15:25:59
I'm sure I'll get pilloried for this, but I genuinely believe, given how the Saudis are so desperate to get poster boy Mo, we could see a similar fee for Mo as we'd have to pay for Semenyo,

That being the case, those posters scoffing at us spending another £200m+ in Jan may be a fair bit off the mark.

If we can effectively get a swap between Mo and Semenyo in terms of fees, then we're probably going to have to pay up for Guehi (c£15-£20m) . Seen a clickbait on Konate being shifted for £10-£15m - that would make sense. And in which case, we may have another CB addition - Ordonez maybe - which would bring our net spending on defenders up to c£50m in Jan.

Depending on who the manager is, I could see someone like Ederson coming in to provide a bit more protection at the back, albeit with Guehi and Ordonez (for example) joining VVD and Gomez we may already be a lot more secure at the back.

I'm really looking towards a second half of the season bounce to get us back near the top.

Gut feel? We'll get Top 4 and City will win the league again.

08 Dec 2025 15:30:12
It’s a shame he’s tarnished his legacy with his selfish behaviour, great numbers but everyone has their time and no one is bigger than the club. Saf won’t have had any of it at united and his biggest strength was knowing when to move lads on, we need characters who set the example for youngsters not a petulant brat who kicks off when he gets dropped.

I always preferred mane anyway Salah has always been all about him.

08 Dec 2025 15:40:12
Slot’s main battle is accepting that his favorite “tiki-taka-but-slower” approach doesn’t actually win games. He’s obsessed with passing sideways between defenders like it’s some kind of magic spell, and the results speak for themselves, our worst run of form in over 70 years.

For a brief moment, we beat two in-form teams, Villa and Madrid, by remembering last year’s tactics, but, of course, he went back to his beloved style. Since then, we’ve won only once in six matches. That is his battle, and at the moment, it’s safe to say he’s spectacularly losing.

08 Dec 2025 15:48:02
lol what a bunch of pansies, Salah has tarnished nothing, lay off the drugs.

08 Dec 2025 16:03:21
£10m-£15m for Konate, Zeddicus?

He's worth £80m all day long mate ;)

08 Dec 2025 16:22:40
"It’s a shame he’s tarnished his legacy".


Nah, this ain't it, IMO. And if anyone thinks this episode makes Slot look good, is dreaming. For me, this is a scathing indictment on his record this season. Simply Shambolic. Same for Salah, btw.

So Salah may leave BUT Slot is getting binned once all conditions have be unified for it to happen. This ain't a "Salah v Slot" situation where there is a winner and a loser. Much the contrary. This is a lose/ lose for both individuals, IMO.

08 Dec 2025 16:29:38
Konate hasn’t become a bad player overnight. He’s been terrible for months now.

08 Dec 2025 16:42:14
Salah has messed up big style but he will not tarnish his legacy with this.
He’s wrong, he’ll have to go, but he will always be remembered as the Egyptian King.

08 Dec 2025 17:10:01
The Egyptian King who was far too self centred and hence will not be a legend in the Kenny Dalglish book of legends.

{Ed001's Note - so not true. You know nothing about a man that has given huge sums away to help those less fortunate. Focused and driven, yes, but his centre is not himself but his family.}

08 Dec 2025 16:55:59
1) No legacy tarnishing going on here. Yes we may have a slightly sour taste in our mouths right now, but in decades to come he will rightly join the select group - King Kenny, Barnesy, Rush, Gerrard etc - as Kop heroes for all that he has done.

2) Bulk, what colour is the sky in your world, mate?! Seriously tho, not only has Konate's form fallen off a cliff this season, but he will only have 6m of his contract left. If Guehi is going to be around £15-£20m given the same length of remaining contract, Konate would be a step down from that. I don't think many fans would disagree with that relative valuation.

08 Dec 2025 17:08:00
Yeah, I don't buy this Salah tarnishing he legacy stuff either, but I also have no delusions this will be good for the team.

I think this is just the first public breakdown between the manager and players, and both Slot and Salah are wrong here. Salah should have bided his time and used this to fuel his own performances so he could eventually be proven right that he was no the cause of our poor form. No one with eyes can think our boring slow play was only because of Mo. However, at the same time, if Salah is worried at being sold in Jan and he doesn't want to go, he may be concerned that he doesn't have the time to wait.

Either way, things have somehow soured further for us as a club. Hope we can get this all straightened soon.

08 Dec 2025 17:28:09
I respect the work that he's done, but I agree with WarMachine. He will never sit alongside Sir Kenny. How much he's given away is of no relevance to me as a Liverpool supporter. I repeat what I've said, he was bang out of order.

08 Dec 2025 17:28:11
Salah shouldn’t have spoke as he did, but slot shouldn’t still be in charge. I wonder if Salahs opinion is shared by the players and they’ve had enough.

Slot has taken world beaters and turned them into Luton town. As a player I’d be upset as well.

But yea Salah should not of done that interview. Still a legend, and I think if he leaves this will go down as a slot clanger, similar to the whole Benitez alonso issue.

Slots only hope of coming out on top in this is to go on and win a trophy.

08 Dec 2025 17:33:48
BTW Bulk, just noticed the winky face! Sorry mate, took you at face value!

08 Dec 2025 17:42:43
Whether you think Salah was right or wrong, the fact is it shows there are underlying problems.
I do think Salah needed to be benched due to poor form, but you can argue that barring Szobz and Ekitike everyone could have been; maybe now we see some of the reasons why his form was poor may be this and the rubbish tactics.

Along with the other rumours of player discontent, and the way it seems some players have been treated, then we have to look at the Manager/ Coach and the other members of the management.

for me it shows the management can't manage, and if Hughes is as complicit as it appears Slot is, then thanks for the Nice signings, but now you can go.

The least Mo deserved after the service he has provided was a frank and honest conversation.

08 Dec 2025 19:30:41
Salah is a club legend. He shouldn’t have spoken to the media but Slot should have brought him on as a sub at least. Refusing to do so hurt a key team member. Remember managers need to be psychologists as well as tacticians. Salah is a sensitive sole, hence his kindness to other players and his real sense of loss with the passing of Jota. If this team can find some intensity again Salah will be very much needed for a top 4 push.

It pains me to see the state of the team at the moment, the managers refusal to change tactics or his inability to get the players to change tactics on the pitch is disastrous. He was so good last season at changing things if they weren’t working. Maybe Heitinga was the real magician. Anyway hope is still there, the squad is strong if managed properly.