Mohamed Salah’s parting blow only increases the pressure on Arne Slot as Liverpool crisis mounts

The parting shot was supposed to come from Mohamed Salah ’s left foot, not his Twitter account. The departing great’s critique of Liverpool’s lamentable defeat at Aston Villa on Friday and increasingly unsatisfactory season may have been intended to sound as well-meaning, but could be construed as self-serving. Much of Salah’s analysis rang true but the fact he said it, and now, felt like an attack on Arne Slot .

The deployment of a couple of phrases indelibly associated with Jurgen Klopp further the impression it was aimed at Slot. “I have witnessed this club go from doubters to believers, and from believers to champions,” Salah wrote. “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.