Mohamed Salah’s explosive social media post over the weekend has everyone talking. The Egyptian hung Arne Slot’s tactics out to dry – and even worse for the manager – many of his first-team team-mates liked the message.
Slot clearly has a divided dressing room now. Salah’s post made that extremely obvious, although we could have worked it out by the pathetic performance dished up against Aston Villa on Friday anyway.
FSG and the sporting directors, Michael Edwards and Richard Hughes, have potentially had a real stinker here.
It seems as if the club has persistently leaked that Slot will be in charge next season, but the Dutchman faces mutiny within a team that has basically given up on him.
And now, Xabi Alonso, the most obvious candidate to replace him, has signed with Chelsea.
Is it really smart to go through a transfer window pandering to Slot’s tactical requirements when half the squad is vocally against them and he may be out of a job early on next term anyway?
It will be mighty interesting to see what happens at Anfield next weekend, anyway.
A crowd may well be booing Slot, who’s staying, and cheering Salah, who’s leaving.
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