{"id":179973,"date":"2025-12-12T09:33:06","date_gmt":"2025-12-12T09:33:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/179973\/"},"modified":"2025-12-12T09:33:06","modified_gmt":"2025-12-12T09:33:06","slug":"liverpool-manager-arne-slot-to-hold-talks-with-mohamed-salah-about-facing-brighton","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/179973\/","title":{"rendered":"Liverpool manager Arne Slot to hold talks with Mohamed Salah about facing Brighton"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.com\/sport\/football\/teams\/liverpool\" class=\"ssrcss-k8mrr8-InlineLink e1kn3p7n0\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Liverpool<\/a> manager Arne Slot says he will speak with Mohamed Salah on Friday morning about whether he will be involved against Brighton on Saturday.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Salah said he has been &#8220;thrown under the bus&#8221; by the club after Saturday&#8217;s draw at Leeds and he was subsequently <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.com\/sport\/football\/articles\/ckgmy2ejn4lo\" class=\"ssrcss-k8mrr8-InlineLink e1kn3p7n0\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">left out of the squad<\/a> for Tuesday&#8217;s Champions League game at Inter Milan.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Salah, 33, also claimed he had <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.com\/sport\/football\/articles\/cze8rnx4g7go\" class=\"ssrcss-k8mrr8-InlineLink e1kn3p7n0\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">&#8220;earned his place&#8221;<\/a> in the team when speaking to media in the mixed zone at Elland Road.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;I will have a conversation with Mo this morning,&#8221; Slot said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;The outcome of that conversation determines how things will look [on Saturday].&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.com\/sport\/football\/teams\/liverpool\" class=\"ssrcss-k8mrr8-InlineLink e1kn3p7n0\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Liverpool<\/a> welcome Brighton to Anfield at 15:00 GMT on Saturday as they look to bounce back from successive draws in the league.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The Egypt forward, who has scored 250 goals in 420 appearances for the Reds, has been an unused substitute in two of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.com\/sport\/football\/teams\/liverpool\" class=\"ssrcss-k8mrr8-InlineLink e1kn3p7n0\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Liverpool<\/a>&#8216;s past three Premier League games.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">He last played in the 1-1 draw against <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.com\/sport\/football\/teams\/sunderland\" class=\"ssrcss-k8mrr8-InlineLink e1kn3p7n0\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Sunderland<\/a> on on 3 December when he came on as a substitute and his last start was on 26 November in the Champions League defeat by PSV Eindhoven. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Liverpool manager Arne Slot says he will speak with Mohamed Salah on Friday morning about whether he will&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":179974,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[111,139,69,213],"class_list":{"0":"post-179973","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-sports","8":"tag-new-zealand","9":"tag-newzealand","10":"tag-nz","11":"tag-sports"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/179973","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=179973"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/179973\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/179974"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=179973"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=179973"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=179973"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}