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<\/p>\nThe Dutchman had insisted he would have the final say on whether to bring back the Egypt international, who was was omitted from the Champions League trip to Milan in midweek, following his explosive comments last weekend.<\/p>\n
After the Premier League draw at Leeds, the player said his relationship with the Reds boss had broken down, he had been \u201cthrown under the bus\u201d in response to recent results and suggested tomorrow\u2019s game could be his last for the club.<\/p>\n
Slot said at his press conference he had \u201cno reasons (for) not wanting him to stay\u201d but intimated there would have to be some form of conciliation from Salah for him to be reintegrated in what would be his last match before heading for the Africa Cup of Nations on Monday.<\/p>\n
But he insisted the final decision would be his \u2013 having spoken with sporting director Richard Hughes and other members of the club hierarchy \u2013 when leaving out the player in midweek.<\/p>\n
Slot\u2019s decision has been taken in what he feels is in the best interests of the team. It will also provide some breathing space in the row as Salah will head for AFCON on Monday, during which a solution to the current situation will continue to be addressed.<\/p>\n
\u201cWe have spoken a lot in the last week after the Sunderland game; there were a lot of conversations between his representatives and ours, our representatives and him, between him and me,\u201d said Slot at his morning press conference.<\/p>\n
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Mo Salah has been left out of Liverpool’s starting selection recently. Photo: Peter Byrne\/PA<\/p>\n
\u201cI think we decided as a club \u2013 and I was part of that decision \u2013 not to take him to Inter Milan and I am always in contact with them but when it comes to the decision-making of the line-up or the squad, they always leave it open to me.<\/p>\n
\u201cThat is not to say I don\u2019t talk to them, mainly Richard not Michael (Edwards, chief executive of football for owners Fenway Sports Group) but I talk to him about so many things: the decision to play a player or have him in the squad \u2013 as I have experienced until now and I think this will never change \u2013 is entirely up to me.\u201d<\/p>\n
In Salah\u2019s absence a depleted team beat Inter Milan 1-0 in a solid away performance which made it two wins and two draws in the last four matches, all with the Egyptian not in the starting line-up.<\/p>\n
Tuesday night saw the Dutchman employ a diamond midfield formation which allowed him to start \u00a3200million worth of striking talent in Alexander Isak and Hugo Ekitike for only the second time.<\/p>\n
While it could hardly be considered a roaring success, Slot is hopeful to give them more chances.<\/p>\n
\u201cThe more they play together, they more they will adapt to each other and the better they will co-operate,\u201d he added. \u201cI saw promising things from the both of them. It\u2019s only the second time they\u2019ve played together. We will see more of them playing together in the future.<\/p>\n
\u201cAlex got a knock in the first half, so let\u2019s see how he recovers from that today and if he is able to start tomorrow.\u201d<\/p>\n
Fellow forward Federico Chiesa has recovered from illness and will rejoin the squad.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Dutchman had insisted he would have the final say on whether to bring back the Egypt international,…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":187806,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[16118,61,60,5859,61605,112],"class_list":["post-188457","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-sports","tag-arne-slot","tag-ie","tag-ireland","tag-liverpool-football-club","tag-mo-salah","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/188457","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=188457"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/188457\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/187806"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=188457"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=188457"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=188457"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}