Graeme Souness warns Arne Slot over ‘issue’ with Liverpool star after Jurgen Klopp exit
Arne Slot is set to become Liverpool’s next manager (Getty)
Graeme Souness has warned Arne Slot that he will inherit an ‘issue’ with Mohamed Salah when he becomes Liverpool manager.
Salah has struggled for form in recent weeks with just one goal in his last six appearances for Liverpool.
The Egypt international was also involved in a touchline bust-up with Jurgen Klopp during Liverpool’s 2-2 draw away to West Ham on Saturday.
And Souness believes Salah could pose an immediate problem for Slot, who is set to reach an agreement with Liverpool, as soon as he arrives at Anfield this summer.
‘He [Slot] is also coming into a situation that I had thought was extremely healthy, and I said so when Klopp announced he was leaving. But, of late, Liverpool have shown a vulnerability and weakness I did not think existed. The season has gone flat and the title has gone now. I did not see this coming,’ Souness wrote in his column for MailOnline.
‘They have gone from the team I believed were going to win it, who did not have to play well to win because they had so much firepower, to a team struggling to score a goal.
Mohamed Salah was involved in a bust-up with Jurgen Klopp during Liverpool’s draw vs West Ham (Getty)
‘Slot will also inherit, if it is not sorted sooner, the issue of Mo Salah. He has dropped way below the levels we know of him and has lost his focus, for whatever reason, in the second half of the season.
‘Do...
source:
metro-liverpool
URL source:
http://metro.co.uk/tag/liverpool-fc/
-------------------------------- |
|
Eight big Premier League names out of contract in 2025
16-05-2024 06:08 - (
Arsenal )
Arsenal’s Invincibles: The five defining games of 2003/04
16-05-2024 06:08 - (
Arsenal )