{"id":311852,"date":"2025-12-12T10:18:09","date_gmt":"2025-12-12T10:18:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/311852\/"},"modified":"2025-12-12T10:18:09","modified_gmt":"2025-12-12T10:18:09","slug":"liverpool-manager-arne-slot-to-hold-talks-with-mohamed-salah-about-facing-brighton","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/311852\/","title":{"rendered":"Liverpool manager Arne Slot to hold talks with Mohamed Salah about facing Brighton"},"content":{"rendered":"

In a way, it is baffling that Liverpool<\/a> fans are still unsure whether the game at Anfield on Saturday will be a farewell, as Salah hinted after the Leeds game.<\/p>\n

But Thursday was a day off for the Liverpool<\/a> players and Salah didn’t travel to Milan so it makes sense that the crunch talks between Slot and Salah will take place at the training centre on Friday morning.<\/p>\n

The key line from Slot was his insistence that he has “no reasons to not want [Salah] to stay”.<\/p>\n

That suggests the door is open for Salah to play again for Liverpool<\/a>, whether that’s on Saturday against Brighton or after the Africa Cup of Nations.<\/p>\n

Asked by BBC Sport whether he still had a relationship with Salah after the Egyptian had said otherwise, Slot laughed and insisted that it would be “useless” for him to answer.<\/p>\n

He repeatedly said that the next time he should speak about Salah should be with the 33-year-old and that was indicative of what a gruelling week it has been for Liverpool<\/a>. For Slot, understandably, there’s no point inflaming the situation further.<\/p>\n

On Tuesday, the understanding was that Salah was excluded from the squad for a short period of time.<\/p>\n

But even if it’s unlikely, Slot implied that there is still a possibility that Salah may be back in for Saturday and that alone indicates that there may be a happy ending to a truly ugly state of affairs.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"In a way, it is baffling that Liverpool fans are still unsure whether the game at Anfield on…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":311853,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[49,50,51,47,52,48],"class_list":{"0":"post-311852","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-headlines","8":"tag-headlines","9":"tag-news","10":"tag-top-news","11":"tag-top-stories","12":"tag-topnews","13":"tag-topstories"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/311852","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=311852"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/311852\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/311853"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=311852"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=311852"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=311852"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}