Dominik Szoboszlai has said the Liverpool dressing room will have no influence over Mohamed Salah\u2019s next move because only the player and the club can decide how their standoff ends.<\/p>\n
Salah missed Liverpool\u2019s valuable Champions League win at Inter<\/a> on Tuesday having been left out of Arne Slot\u2019s squad<\/a> in response to his highly critical interview<\/a> at Leeds. The 33\u2011year\u2011old forward could also be absent when Brighton visit Anfield on Saturday. He is due to report for Africa Cup of Nations duty with Egypt on Monday.<\/p>\n Szoboszlai converted the decisive penalty that condemned Inter to a first European defeat at San Siro in more than three years and is among Salah\u2019s closest friends at Liverpool<\/a>. But the Hungary captain admitted Salah\u2019s teammates would have no input into how the divisive episode is resolved.<\/p>\n \u201cI\u2019m very close with him,\u201d said Szoboszlai, who has taken Salah\u2019s place on the right since the striker was first dropped at West Ham. \u201cIt\u2019s nothing to do with the players. It\u2019s him and his own choice with what he is doing with his own life and his own career.\u201d<\/p>\n Asked whether he wanted Salah to stay, the midfielder said: \u201cIt\u2019s not our decision as players. I love him as a human being, as a friend of mine. As a player he has done so much for this club it\u2019s going to be the club\u2019s and is decision.\u201d<\/p>\n Liverpool players were reluctant to be drawn into the Salah situation after their victory at San Siro. Curtis Jones insisted the controversy had not affected the atmosphere in the dressing room and that Liverpool\u2019s display against Inter demonstrated the team remained firmly behind Slot. \u201cWe always are, we always are,\u201d Jones said.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n \u201cHe [Slot] is human at the end of the day. If we get beat in games it affects him; it affects us all too the same way it affects fans. He is a positive man, he always makes a change.<\/p>\n \u201cThe style of play has changed a bit. He is as hungry as ever, exactly the same with us. He is there with us and we are there with him as well.\u201d<\/p>\n skip past newsletter promotion<\/a><\/p>\n Sign up to Football Daily<\/p>\n Kick off your evenings with the Guardian’s take on the world of football<\/p>\n Privacy Notice: Newsletters may contain information about charities, online ads, and content funded by outside parties. If you do not have an account, we will create a guest account for you on theguardian.com<\/a> to send you this newsletter. You can complete full registration at any time. For more information about how we use your data see our Privacy Policy<\/a>. We use Google reCaptcha to protect our website and the Google Privacy Policy<\/a> and Terms of Service<\/a> apply.<\/p>\n after newsletter promotion<\/p>\n Liverpool are unbeaten in the four games since Slot dropped Salah after the home defeats by Nottingham Forest and PSV Eindhoven that piled pressure on the head coach. Jones believes \u201cthe mind-frame of the team has changed\u201d since those damaging results at Anfield and Slot\u2019s tactical changes have also paid off. Liverpool played with a midfield diamond at San Siro with Hugo Ekitik\u00e9 and Alexander Isak partnered in attack.<\/p>\n Jones said: \u201cI think it works because I am playing. It is a way of getting all the lads in the team. It is obviously hard to keep everybody happy. We are in a situation where it is hard with the games we have lost. It is more about freshening things up, having a bit of a change and that\u2019s what we have done.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Dominik Szoboszlai has said the Liverpool dressing room will have no influence over Mohamed Salah\u2019s next move because…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":340370,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[563],"tags":[64,63,596,85],"class_list":{"0":"post-340369","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-football","8":"tag-au","9":"tag-australia","10":"tag-football","11":"tag-sports"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/340369","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=340369"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/340369\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/340370"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=340369"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=340369"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=340369"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}