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ECHO Comment: "Fears of Witch-hunt Against Liverpool FC" part 3


JelavicBrate2 said:
Gotta say I do admire Salah coming out and giving his opinions, I'm sick and tired of players being robots and not saying what they believe. What's the point in asking managers and players questions, when they have a press officer telling them what to say.
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I’d be mad as hell if one of our players did it, it is grossly unprofessional, very selfish and causes huge team issues. If you have a beef with the manager deal with it in house, don’t go bleating to the press about it and make it all ten times worse.

But since it is Liverpool and not us I find it hilarious - give us daily updates whilst at AFCON Mo!
 

LinekersLegs said:
I’d be mad as hell if one of our players did it, it is grossly unprofessional, very selfish and causes huge team issues. If you have a beef with the manager deal with it in house, don’t go bleating to the press about it and make it all ten times worse.

But since it is Liverpool and not us I find it hilarious - give us daily updates whilst at AFCON Mo!
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He's done it before, holding club to ransom. He was never loyal to RS. Supposedly a nice guy off field, but he's pretty narcissistic.
 
www.theguardian.com

Self-indulgent Mohamed Salah betrays teammates and hastens end of Liverpool era | Andy Hunter

The Egyptian’s calculated outburst has issued a challenge to Liverpool’s management and their support for the embattled Arne Slot
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The Egypt international twice accused Liverpool of throwing him under a bus in response to their dismal Premier League title defence. Salah made sure that everyone else at Liverpool – the club’s hierarchy, head coach and even teammates he professed to love – would be under it with him.

Slot went under the bus with Salah’s revelation that there is no longer a relationship between Liverpool’s head coach and star player. An untenable situation. Members of the club’s hierarchy – specifically the sporting director Richard Hughes and Michael Edwards, chief executive of football at Fenway Sports Group (FSG) – were dragged under by Salah’s claim that someone wants him out of the club. Unwittingly or otherwise, the finger immediately points in their direction with Liverpool committed to paying the 33-year-old more than £32m for the remaining 19 months of a contract signed only in April.

Teammates were thrown under too by Salah’s entitled insistence that he has earned the position Slot has taken from him. Only in the past week, mind you. Those teammates include Dominik Szoboszlai, Liverpool’s best performer this season, who started in Salah’s place against West Ham, Sunderland and Leeds. Virgil van Dijk might take issue with his colleague too, having said: “It’s not like you have unlimited credit, everyone has to perform,” when asked about Salah’s demotion in midweek.

Another post-Sunderland line from the Liverpool captain leaps out after Salah’s interview. “I need him around as one of the leaders,” Van Dijk said on Wednesday. This was not leadership from Salah, it was pure self-indulgence and a betrayal of the dressing room. There is seemingly no end to Liverpool’s problems this season, too many of them self-inflicted.

The club wanted to let the dust settle on Sunday and consider their response with cool heads. The response must be emphatic, however, or Slot’s position will be seriously undermined by his own employers. And his position has already weakened in the eyes of many supporters after a miserable run of results and performances. Keane was sacked by United after directly lambasting his teammates. Salah did not go that far but he has taken on his manager and openly criticised his decision-making. Liverpool cannot allow that to pass if Slot is to retain authority over the rest of the squad. Banishing the striker from this week’s Champions League trip to Milan to play Inter and the home game against Brighton on Saturday, when Salah floated the possibility of saying goodbye to Anfield – permanently, or just before heading off to the Africa Cup of Nations, went unsaid – seems a fair place to start.
 

I think we all owe Mohamed - he can no longer be referred to as "Mo" by order of the Cult - Salah a debt of gratitude. He has completely and utterly exploded the myth that the sad demise of Diogo Jota was the reason for Liverpool's hilarious "title defence".

So, wouldn't it be lovely to see any of the TV "journalists" challenge pundits who peddled that nonsense? Some would say that is what journalism is for: holding people to account. But no - we won't hear another mention of the deceased from here. How they have traduced his memory for their own self-serving ends.
 

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