Bukayo Saka in UCL final:
0 goals
0 assists
0 shots on target
0 chances created
0 big chances created
0 key passes
0 successful take-ons
0 accurate crosses
Cardio.
🚨🚨 EXCLUSIVE: ARNE SLOT AND LIVERPOOL TO PART WAYS WITH IMMEDIATE EFFECT. 💣
It’s over between the Dutch manager and Liverpool after end of the season review. 👋🏼
Andoni Iraola, clear favorite to take over as next #LFC head coach.
Salah ends the season with 23 G/A.
Comfortably the worst season of his career and he still ends up with more goal contributions than many forwards would have as their best season. We can't replace him, man.
Football data editor at Opta, @michael_reid11: "We obviously have data for all the Premier League era, so from 1992-93 onwards, but Salah's records were so ridiculous that we realised we had to go beyond that. The amount of times we were doing stats and you'd try to put other players up on a leaderboard but Salah would be just there ahead of them. It would be just impossible to get a table where Salah wasn't above this player because he was so multifaceted. What we tried to do was get maybe two or three Salah records or stats lined up before every game. He got to a point where every time he gets a goal or assist, there's some sort of record he's breaking."
🥇 | @Simon_Hughes__: “Not so long ago, some of Salah’s associates in Egypt were quietly suggesting he had not totally given up on the idea of remaining at Liverpool, despite recent announcements. Yet for that to happen, a regime change would be needed — starting with Slot, but also in conjunction with departures of the directors who have confidence in him but are similarly only a year away from their contracts being finished.”
Back in October, Salah was blamed as Cucurella was able to get in behind in acres of space.
Now in May, Cucurella did exactly the same thing where he was to get in behind in acres of space repeatedly.
Salah was scapegoated for a structural problem in Slot’s system.
To go from sticking 7, 5, 4, 3 goals past them when you’re bagging hat tricks to now watching this as you go out.
Can’t even imagine what Salah’s thinking right now. The culture of the club disappearing is exactly what he was speaking about in his interview.