Following Mohamed Salah‘s pointed feedback on his contract state of affairs at Liverpool, Arne Slot refused to be drawn on “lots of ‘ifs’” concerning his future.
Salah is one in every of three key gamers into the ultimate 12 months of his contract at Anfield, and after Sunday’s 3-0 win over Man United revealed he’s but to be approached over an extension.
That has rightly pissed off supporters given his degree of efficiency, even when he’s the improper facet of 30, with it seen as negligent by the membership’s board.
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Talking in his post-match press convention at Previous Trafford, Slot responded to questions on Salah’s feedback and unsurprisingly stepped again.
“It’s lots of ‘if’, however at this second he’s one in every of ours and I’m actually, actually pleased with him being one in every of ours. He performs rather well,” he instructed reporters.
“I don’t speak about contracts from gamers, however I can discuss for hours about how Mo performed in the present day. However are you interested by that?
“He was spectacular, like the primary two video games as nicely, but when we speak about a person, you don’t do justice to all the opposite ones.
“I feel in the present day you noticed an actual good group efficiency, enjoying out from the again, excessive press, midfield that stored on operating.
“So after all, all the eye goes to Mo and to Lucho, however that doesn’t do justice to the opposite 9 and those that got here in.”
With Liverpool having made the excellence of Slot taking on as a head coach, moderately than a supervisor, the Dutchman is nicely inside his rights to keep away from questions on recruitment and retention.
These needs to be addressed by the membership’s sporting director, Richard Hughes, whose sole public interplay was in Slot’s unveiling press convention again in July.
Little question Slot can be keen to maintain Salah past 2025 – in addition to Virgil van Dijk and Trent Alexander-Arnold – however the onus is on Liverpool’s hierarchy to resolve these offers.
