Mo Salah is being called selfish and also caring about Liverpool with his “heavy metal” comments. It’s possible to be both, caring about himself and the club. One of Liverpool’s greatest ever players was making a legitimate point, and he has a right to. Salah could have delivered his critique to the hierarchy in private but he’s leaving, rightly so as the revered 33-year-old is not the force of old. He’s more string quartet than heavy metal.
By posting his critique to his 62m followers on Instagram, Salah wants everyone to know how he feels - and how he feels a club he’s served so well and loves so much can re-find its way. Of course, it’s embarrassing for Arne Slot, especially when so many of Salah’s team-mates "like" the post (whatever their reasons). It heaps more pressure on the head coach.
But the football overseen by Slot isn’t good enough at the moment. It lacks direction, intensity and authority. Salah is right. Slot has to focus most on ensuring Liverpool finish in the Champions League positions, rise above the criticism and give Salah the send-off a club legend deserves at Anfield on Sunday. #LFC
🚨🎙️ Steven Gerrard on Arne Slot’s words to the press after losing 4-2 to Aston Villa
“I’ve really tried not to believe that what Arne Slot is telling the press is how he actually feels deep down… but comments like that make it impossible to ignore now.
As Liverpool manager, how can you lose the game at Villa Park and then come out and say scoring two goals is ‘not bad’? That’s nowhere near good enough. That’s not us. That’s not the standard we set at this club for years. We go to places like Villa expecting to dominate, create overloads, score goals and win the match — not settle for a pat on the back after a defeat.
Yeah, we might still scrape into the Champions League, fair enough. But is this the type of football the club is planning to play again next season? Because if it is, then the standards have dropped too far. The hunger, the intensity, the winning mentality… it’s missing. And if this is the level we’re accepting now, then something has to change. Big time.”
@MoSalah True hero. Long live the king 👑. Mo Salah is not just a Liverpool player, he is one of us. A hardcore fan, a true legend. We are all so lucky to have watched him grow in to one of the greatest of all time. YNWA Mo Salah
I have witnessed this club go from doubters to believers, and from believers to champions. It took hard work and I always did everything I could to help the club get there. Nothing makes me prouder than that.
Us crumbling to yet another defeat this season was very painful and not what our fans deserve. I want to see Liverpool go back to being the heavy metal attacking team that opponents fear and back to being a team that wins trophies. That is the football I know how to play and that is the identity that needs to be recovered and kept for good. It cannot be negotiable and everyone that joins this club should adapt to it.
Winning some games here and there is not what Liverpool should be about. All teams win games.
Liverpool will always be a club that means a great deal to me and to my family. I want to see it succeed for long after I have moved on.
As I’ve always said, qualifying to next season’s Champions League is the bare minimum and I will do everything I can to make that happen.
I do not care what’s going on with injuries….. reigning premier league champions should NOT have the same amount of loses as 2 promoted teams Leeds and Sunderland. Slot has to go that is NOT acceptable, the buck lies with you, and managers have gone for less a lot less.
#SlotOut Petition: Signatures have ballooned to 630,000.
No way back for Slot, he has to go. No true fan will ever want him to manage next season after this season's farce.
#ArneSlot#LFC#YNWA
Petition Link here => https://t.co/FCbvdrijnk
🗣️ "I'm a bit sick and tired of him. He'll make excuses and blame someone instead of looking himself. He is the manager and he should be solving the problem, but at the moment he isn't."
Clinton Morrison has had enough of Arne Slot - we suspect he's not alone...
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The worst thing about Slot apart from all the tactical stuff is he is a rubbish man manager and does not connect with the fans
These are an absolute must for any Liverpool manager. The basics after Klopp