@henrywinter He’s detracting from Andy Robertson’s last game. It’s become all about Mo. Robertson is a true legend and a class act. Nothing but supportive of the club. Salah should have waited until he’d left.
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
@AnfieldWatch He’s criticising his teammates for crumbling when there’s a game to win! How does this help the club? Phenomenal in the past he forgets his own poor form hasn’t helped this season. Andy Robertson- total opposite, a class act. Hope his farewell isn’t overshadowed by the Mo show.
@Vfynn_ Hasn’t helped in all this chaos that Salah has been a shadow of the player we know he can be. Come on Mo, forget the sniping, get us over the line for the CL. Xabi, you should have hung on a bit longer. Once the fans turn it’s only a matter of time.
🚨🎙️Jamie Carragher on why Liverpool must sack Arne Slot after the 4-2 defeat to Aston Villa if they want to return to the top:
“I’ve held my tongue for months because I love this club and I wanted to give Arne Slot the benefit of the doubt after what he did last season. But enough is enough. This 4-2 capitulation at Villa Park yesterday in our final away game of a season that’s been an absolute disaster, is the final straw.
Let’s be crystal clear, if Liverpool are serious about getting back to where we belong, competing at the very top, challenging for titles, not scrambling for a Champions League spot on the last day then they have to sack Arne Slot now. Not in the summer. Not after another window of ‘trust the process.’ Act. Today.
Look at the cold, hard facts of his tenure. He won the league in his first season off the back of Jurgen’s squad and that incredible momentum. Fair play. But this 25/26 season? It’s been a collapse like we’ve never seen. Slot has now overseen 20 defeats in all competitions, the most by any Liverpool manager in a single season in the club’s entire history. He broke Rafael Benítez’s unwanted record of 19. Twenty losses. That’s not a blip, that’s a catastrophe.
In the Premier League alone, we’ve conceded a club-record 52 goals, the first time ever over 50 in a 38-game season. Set-pieces? We’ve been the worst team in Europe’s top five leagues on them all year. Leaking goals from dead balls like it’s amateur hour. And this after a huge summer spending spree – over £400 million on new attackers like Alexander Isak and Hugo Ekitike, supposedly to make us even stronger. Instead? We’ve gone backwards. More open, more end-to-end basketball, less control. The recruitment was all attack and no balance. Pre-season screamed it, the first game against Bournemouth screamed it, and it’s never been fixed.
Analytically, the underlying numbers don’t lie. No improvement from day one to the final whistle. Zero. The drop-off from title winners to this fragile mess has been stark – worse points-per-game runs than some of the darkest periods under Hodgson or even early Rodgers in stretches. We’ve had five straight domestic defeats, nine losses in 12 at one point, historic lows not seen since the 1950s. Defensively? Organised chaos. Midfield overrun. No leadership when it matters. Players look confused, not coached into a system that suits them. Injuries? Every club has them. You can’t hide behind that after blowing the bank on marquee signings who haven’t delivered.
This isn’t just about one bad result. This is a manager whose weakness traits have been exposed week after week: inability to fix set-piece defending, poor in-game adjustments, over-reliance on individual moments rather than a coherent structure, and a squad that looks less than the sum of its parts despite the spending.
Liverpool fans deserve better than this. We’ve been spoilt, yeah, but that’s the standard. We don’t accept mediocrity. We don’t accept ‘give him another window’ when the evidence is screaming the opposite. FSG, the board, if you care about the badge, the fans, the history… sack Slot now. Bring in someone who can rebuild this properly before another season slips away.”
Arne Slot is expected to continue as Liverpool head coach next season, Sky Sports News understands, as the club close in on Champions League qualification 🔴
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I am hoping to attend the match v Crystal Palace but I have a very painful herniated disc in my back at the moment unfortunately. Can I bring a special support cushion to sit on? It’s not that big but I would be in agony without it.
@henrywinter Henry every Liverpool player tonight had to be prepared to defend and make tackles, PSG were that good. Mo will accompany an opposing player up the pitch but sadly he’s not going to get the ball from him. Maybe he’ll be the hero in the return leg. 🤞
Mo Salah not the force he was, he’s leaving Liverpool but… trailing 2-0 and not bringing on an attacker who’s still Footballer of the Year and instead bringing on an 18-year-old midfielder in Nyoni seems strange. And why Gakpo not Ngumoha? #PSGLIV
@RyanMKIV@henrywinter@christatum4949 Debate sparked by Everton’s response to the Arsenal fans singing ‘Feed the Scousers do they know it’s Christmas?’ Everton put the symbol for the Foodbank they support on their big screen.
14.1m people in the UK are “food insecure”, according to the Trussell Trust. Nationwide problem. Football fans do much-needed work with food-banks. Manchester United fans donated 20kg of food and £261 to their food-bank on Sir Matt Busby Way before Monday’s game v Bournemouth. Food and funds that will help support the hungry in Manchester. Before every game at the Emirates, Arsenal fans donate money and food, household essentials and toiletries at their collection point by the Tony Adams statue. Hugely important contribution to the Islington food-bank which helps so many people locally. Something for United and Arsenal fans singing “feed the Scousers” to reflect on. Hunger doesn’t wear club colours.
Luke Littler won a world title before the age of 18, but didn't win the Young Person award cause the BBC keep pushing their Lionesses agenda. It's getting very boring now.
#SPOTY
@TheAnfieldWrap Totally agree. At a time when his team is struggling he chose to have a pre-meditated moan that he well knew would go viral and cause rifts and turmoil in the fan base. Bottom line - he was dropped because sadly he wasn’t playing well & didn’t seem to be putting any effort in.
@TheAnfieldWrap Selfish. We have another much loved & respected player who’s been dropped this season. Compare and contrast how Andy Robertson has behaved to Salah. Sadly he hasn’t been anything like good enough, being dropped should have inspired him to try harder like Robbo.
@TheAnfieldWrap Sorry Mo but EVERYONE has to fight for their place every week- you haven’t ‘earned’ it because of what you did in the past. If you’ve got a problem with your Manager go and knock on his door - all you’ve done is unsettle the whole dressing room when unity is needed most.
🗣️ Mo Salah comments:
"I said many times before that I had a good relationship with the manager, and all of a sudden we don't have any relationship. I don't know why but it seems to me, how I see it, that someone doesn't want me in the club."
"It seems like the club has thrown me under the bus. That is how I am feeling. I think it is very clear that someone wanted me to get all of the blame."
"This club, I will always support it. My kids will always support it. I love the club so much and I always will. It [the situation] is not acceptable to me, to be fair. I don't get it. It's like I'm being thrown more under the bus. I don't think I'm the problem. I have done so much for this club."
"I don't have to go every day fighting for my position because I earned it. I am not bigger than anyone but I earned my position. It's football. It is what it is."