Liverpool star sends DAMNING message to Arne Slot and FSG | OneFootball

Salah sends message to Slot and FSG

Despite the great man never claiming he wanted to leave Liverpool, several media organisations have taken a false-quote and ran with it, speculating over whether an early exit for Salah is on the cards.

The 33-year-old only signed his two-year extension with the club in April and, it's not hard to read between the lines that his media outburst came from a place of commitment to delivering success.

Joining a different team might be something he's considering, now that he's closer than ever to retiring, but a desire to get more game-time shouldn't ever be misconstrued for a transfer plea.

While he's been with Egypt, the right-winger has been on fire, scoring two of his team's three goals in their opening two games of the tournament, and they're now safely through to the Last 16 phase.

There's one game left to play, and Hossam Hassan will want to make it a clean sweep, but what's certain is that Arne Slot, FSG and pundit Jamie Carragher will be well aware of Salah's intentions.

Suggestions that Salah ought to go to Saudi Arabia or that his Liverpool legacy have been tarnished in some way, are nonsense. The fans adore him - as evidence by Anfield chanting his name after the Brighton clash a few weeks ago - and the player doesn't wish to leave. Plus, he's now back in form.

When the Egyptian returns to Liverpool, which might now be in the middle of January if Salah can take his country deep into AFCON, he'll have less of a chance to leave because most of the transfer window will be over, he'll be playing with a point to prove, and he may have reinforced his legacy.

After all, Carragher used the fact that Salah has never won his regional tournament as a stick to beat him with as part of a rant over how 'self-obsessed' the winger had become. This was even though no one else in Slot's squad has won the Euros, and Salah merely backed his own ability to succeed.

But if Salah can won AFCON for the first time, an ambition which he's putting his country on track to do, since he's currently delivering a Player of the Tournament campaign, then there will be nothing else to criticise him with. The campaign to send a clear message to his doubters is well under way.

We should play Salah whenever we can. He's an all-time great. Everyone, including Salah, knows it.