Slot believes strong action was required after Salah responded to being left out of the starting line up for a third successive game by accusing Liverpool of \u201cthrowing him under the bus\u201d and making him a scapegoat for the team\u2019s struggles this season.<\/p>\n
Asked if he thought Salah had played his last game for the club, Slot told a pre-match press conference on Monday: \u201cI have no clue. I cannot answer that question at this point in time.<\/p>\n
\u201cI am a firm believer that there is always a possibility to return for a player. I can leave it with that I think.<\/p>\n
\u201cWe are sitting here on an evening before a big game for us. There is only 36 hours between now and the moment we conceded to make it 3-3 at Leeds.<\/p>\n
\u201cYou can understand that I\u2019ve tried to prepare my team in the best possible way. In the meantime we decided not to bring Mo with us to this game and then after tomorrow we will look at the situation again.\u201d<\/p>\n
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\n Salah won the Premier League with Liverpool last season (Michael Regan\/Getty Images\/Getty Images For The Premier League)<\/p>\n
Slot was shocked by Salah\u2019s claims that his relationship with the head coach had completely broken down.<\/p>\n
\u201cThat is not the way I feel, but he has the right to feel how he feels,\u201d he said. \u201cI haven\u2019t felt that at all until Saturday evening for sure.<\/p>\n
\u201cWhen I didn\u2019t play him anymore, usually players don\u2019t like the manager then that much, but he was really respectful to his teammates and my staff members.<\/p>\n
\u201cHe trained really hard so it was a surprise to me when I heard the comments he gave after the game. But it is not the first or the last time when a player doesn\u2019t play that he says something like that. My reaction to that is clear \u2014 he is not here tonight.\u201d<\/p>\n
Salah trained at Kirkby with the squad on Monday before being informed he wouldn\u2019t be travelling to Italy.<\/p>\n
Slot described it as a \u201cshort\u201d conversation. He added: \u201cThat was the only communication from us to him. Before Saturday the two of us have spoken a lot, sometimes longer, sometimes shorter.\u201d<\/p>\n
Asked if he thought Salah was referring to him when he talked about being \u201cthrown under the bus\u201d, Slot replied: \u201cThe only one who can answer that is Mo himself.<\/p>\n
\u201cI can guess but I don\u2019t think that is the right thing to do. It\u2019s hard for me to tell who he means. He has every right to feel what he feels. He has the right to share it with the media but it\u2019s then up to us to react to it.<\/p>\n
\u201cUsually I\u2019m calm and I\u2019m polite but that doesn\u2019t mean I am weak. So if a player has these commands about so many things, then it\u2019s about me and us as a club to react. We reacted in a way you can see \u2014 he\u2019s not here.\u201d<\/p>\n
He continued: \u201cI don\u2019t feel that my authority has been undermined. That\u2019s not the way I feel it.\u201d<\/p>\n
Slot\u2019s side go into Tuesday\u2019s Champions League clash with Inter with just four wins from their last 15 games in all competitions.<\/p>\n
With Salah missing, Liverpool\u2019s attacking options are limited as Federico Chiesa (illness) and Cody Gakpo (injury) also didn\u2019t travel to Italy.<\/p>\n
Slot\u2019s 19-man squad includes three goalkeepers and three teenage outfield players with Wataru Endo and Jeremie Frimpong also sidelined.<\/p>\n
\u201cFederico is ill so that is poor timing you could say,\u201d Slot said. \u201cWe are monitoring his situation. If he has an amazing recovery he might travel tomorrow. But that\u2019s not what I expect.<\/p>\n
\u201cCody unfortunately picked up an injury in the last game and he will be out for a few weeks.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Arne Slot insists he has \u201cno clue\u201d whether Mohamed Salah will play for Liverpool again. The Egyptian attacker…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":174815,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[49848,85,46,172,2619,19711,105,102911],"class_list":["post-174814","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-sports","tag-fifa-mens-world-cup","tag-il","tag-israel","tag-liverpool","tag-premier-league","tag-soccer","tag-sports","tag-top-sports-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/174814","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=174814"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/174814\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/174815"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=174814"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=174814"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=174814"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}