{"id":171995,"date":"2025-12-03T01:08:07","date_gmt":"2025-12-03T01:08:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/171995\/"},"modified":"2025-12-03T01:08:07","modified_gmt":"2025-12-03T01:08:07","slug":"slot-uneasy-over-dropping-salah-for-liverpool-and-wants-him-back-on-pitch-liverpool","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/171995\/","title":{"rendered":"Slot uneasy over dropping Salah for Liverpool and wants him back on pitch | Liverpool"},"content":{"rendered":"

Arne Slot has admitted feeling unease at dropping Mohamed Salah<\/a> after the\u00a0striker\u2019s eight phenomenal seasons at Liverpool, and said he wants him \u201cdoing something special\u201d on the\u00a0pitch rather than sitting misera\u00adbly\u00a0on the bench.<\/p>\n

Omitting Salah was Slot\u2019s big call at\u00a0West Ham<\/a> on Sunday when the \u00adLiverpool head coach found a \u00adsolution to the Premier League champions\u2019 dismal run of results. The Egypt international, who will depart for the Africa Cup of Nations on 15\u00a0December, has struggled to hit his customary heights this season and is not guaranteed to return against Sunderland at Anfield on Wednesday.<\/p>\n

Slot insists West Ham did not mark the start of Liverpool\u2019s transition to a post-Salah era because the 33\u2011year\u2011old has been \u201coutstanding for this club for so many years and will be for us in the future\u201d. But he conceded it was difficult for \u00adeveryone connected with Liverpool<\/a> to see Salah\u00a0lose his starting place.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt is not a nice thing for him, not for a Liverpool fan and not for me,\u201d Slot said. \u201cA player that has been so important for us, you want to see him on the pitch. I prefer to see Mo on the pitch, scoring his goals and doing something special rather than the camera being on him when he isn\u2019t in the game. He has been so important for us, for so many years, and he will be important for us in the coming days \u2013 because it is days as he goes to the Africa Cup of Nations.\u201d<\/p>\n

Slot said Salah was not happy about being dropped but had been sup\u00adportive of his teammates on Sunday and in training on Monday. \u201cThe reaction of every player in this group, no matter whether he\u2019s playing or not playing, is to bring the best out of yourself every single day you are in this building and when we are playing,\u201d he said. \u201cThat\u2019s exactly the attitude he showed on Sunday and yesterday as well.\u201d<\/p>\n

Dominik Szoboszlai took Salah\u2019s place at West Ham but Slot, who has been linked with a January move for Bournemouth\u2019s Antoine Semenyo, \u00adconfirmed the Hungary captain was not a permanent replacement for Salah.<\/p>\n

\u201cI\u00a0don\u2019t see Dominik as a right-winger for the long-term future in this club. Dominik is a midfielder who could help us out as a full-back or as a winger if needed. I don\u2019t expect to be in February or March and every single game Dominik is playing there. But I don\u2019t know yet at this moment.<\/p>\n

\u201cHe\u2019s more of a midfielder than a winger, but the good thing about him is he can help me and us out in \u00adseveral positions if I need him in that position. In the long-term future we should have wingers \u00adplaying as \u00adwingers, midfielders playing as midfielders and defenders playing as defenders.\u201d<\/p>\n

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Dominik Szoboszlai took Mohamed Salah\u2019s place against West Ham. Photograph: Allstar Picture Library Ltd\/Ed Sykes\/Apl\/Sportsphoto<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Arne Slot has admitted feeling unease at dropping Mohamed Salah after the\u00a0striker\u2019s eight phenomenal seasons at Liverpool, and…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":171996,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[61,60,112],"class_list":["post-171995","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-sports","tag-ie","tag-ireland","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/171995","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=171995"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/171995\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/171996"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=171995"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=171995"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=171995"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}