{"id":344156,"date":"2025-12-14T06:37:12","date_gmt":"2025-12-14T06:37:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/344156\/"},"modified":"2025-12-14T06:37:12","modified_gmt":"2025-12-14T06:37:12","slug":"mohamed-salah-questions-still-remain-as-liverpool-forward-heads-off-to-africa-cup-of-nations","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/344156\/","title":{"rendered":"Mohamed Salah: Questions still remain as Liverpool forward heads off to Africa Cup of Nations"},"content":{"rendered":"

Speaking after the game, Ekitike described sharing a pitch with Salah as “a blessing”, adding he was “the kind of player who makes us like to watch football”.<\/p>\n

But the French forward and Co won’t now share a pitch with their team-mate until January at the earliest, with Salah potentially missing eight games if Egypt go all the way to the final in Morocco on 18 January.<\/p>\n

“I suppose everybody will be leaving Anfield with that feeling of what’s going to happen next with Mo Salah,” ex-Blackburn Rovers striker Chris Sutton said on Final Score. “Is he going to stay or is he going to go? But it’s been a good week for Slot.<\/p>\n

“I don’t think it was a goodbye. There were a couple of moments where we you thought, ‘was that a wave or not’, but it just looked like he was applauding the fans like he does every week, and as a lot of the other players did.<\/p>\n

“It’s going to be interesting to see how this situation pans out. If you’re a Liverpool<\/a> fan you want to keep your best players so you’ll be hoping it works out.”<\/p>\n

A major plus for Liverpool<\/a> is that, without Salah starting in any of the past five games, they are still unbeaten and have shown they can cope without the Egyptian talisman.<\/p>\n

That in itself will give Slot confidence. But, in the long-term, having a fit and firing Salah can only be a positive for his side.<\/p>\n

“I spoke to him yesterday and as I usually never say anything about what we talk about, I am not going to make an exception now,” added Slot.<\/p>\n

“But I think actions speak louder than what has been said and he was in the squad again and when I had to make my first substitutions, I brought him in and he performed as every fan including me would like him to.”<\/p>\n

It is clear Slot is happy to pick Salah again, but also clear there is still no definitive conclusion after a tumultuous week for both parties – and Liverpool<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Speaking after the game, Ekitike described sharing a pitch with Salah as “a blessing”, adding he was “the…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":344157,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[440],"tags":[49,48,561,82],"class_list":{"0":"post-344156","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-soccer","8":"tag-ca","9":"tag-canada","10":"tag-soccer","11":"tag-sports"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/344156","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=344156"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/344156\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/344157"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=344156"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=344156"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=344156"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}