{"id":189877,"date":"2025-12-13T14:50:07","date_gmt":"2025-12-13T14:50:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/189877\/"},"modified":"2025-12-13T14:50:07","modified_gmt":"2025-12-13T14:50:07","slug":"salah-starts-on-liverpool-bench-against-brighton","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/189877\/","title":{"rendered":"Salah starts on Liverpool bench against Brighton"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Mo Salah has been named on the Liverpool bench for the Premier League visit of Brighton to Anfield.<\/p>\n<p>The Egyptian superstar has returned to the squad after being dropped for Inter Milan midweek, having criticised manager Arne Slot last weekend.<\/p>\n<p>Record signing Aleksander Isak is also among the substitutes as Slot goes with a front three of Hugo Ekitike, Florian Wirtz and Dominik Szoboszlai.<\/p>\n<p>The Egypt forward was left out of the Reds&#8217; travelling squad for the Champions League tie away to Inter Milan on Tuesday night following his <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rte.ie\/sport\/soccer\/2025\/1206\/1547682-salah-lashes-out-at-slot-in-astonishing-interview\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">extraordinary outburst<\/a> after the Premier League match at Leeds on Saturday.<\/p>\n<p>He instead reported for training at the club&#8217;s Kirkby base on Tuesday morning and posted a picture of himself in the training ground gym.<\/p>\n<p>Salah signed a new contract in April which made him the club&#8217;s highest-paid player, but said following the Reds&#8217; match at Leeds that he had been &#8220;thrown under the bus&#8221; by the Merseyside club.<\/p>\n<p>Salah said he was &#8220;very, very disappointed&#8221; to have been named among the substitutes for the third-successive match, and added: &#8220;I got a lot of promises in the summer and so far I am on the bench for three games so I can&#8217;t say they keep the promise.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I said many times before that, I had a good relationship with the manager and all of a sudden we don&#8217;t have any relationship.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I don&#8217;t know why but it seems to me, how I see it, that someone doesn&#8217;t want me in the club.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Salah is due to be absent from the team later this month in any case, with the Africa Cup of Nations getting under way on 21 December.<\/p>\n<p>During his post-Leeds interview, Salah suggested the Brighton game might be his last for the club.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;This club, I always support it. My kids will always support it. I love the club so much I will always do. I called my mum yesterday \u2013 you guys didn&#8217;t know if I would start or not, but I knew.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Yesterday I said to them, come to the Brighton game. I don\u2019t know if I am going to play or not but I am going to enjoy it.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;In my head, I\u2019m going to enjoy that game because I don\u2019t know what is going to happen now.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I will be in Anfield to say goodbye to the fans and go the Africa Cup of Nations. I don\u2019t know what is going to happen when I am there.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Liverpool: Alisson, Gomez, Konate, van Dijk, Kerkez, Gravenberch, Jones, Szoboszlai, Mac Allister, Wirtz, Ekitike.<br \/>Subs: Mamardashvili, Isak, Salah, Chiesa, Robertson, Ramsay, Ngumoha, Lucky.<br \/>Brighton: Verbruggen, Wieffer, van Hecke, Dunk, Kadioglu, Baleba, Hinshelwood, Minteh, Gruda, Gomez, Rutter.<br \/>Subs: Steele, Welbeck, Kostoulas, Milner, Boscagli, Mitoma, Ayari, De Cuyper,Veltman.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Mo Salah has been named on the Liverpool bench for the Premier League visit of Brighton to Anfield.&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":189878,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[61,60,112],"class_list":["post-189877","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\/189877","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=189877"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/189877\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/189878"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=189877"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=189877"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=189877"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}