Mohamed Salah has launched another withering critique on Liverpool, the club he is set to depart after next weekend.<\/p>\n
In Friday\u2019s 4-2 defeat at Aston Villa<\/a>, Salah came on as a late substitute, as the result cast into doubt fifth-placed Liverpool\u2019s participation in next season\u2019s Champions League. Arne Slot, the Liverpool manager with whom Salah has had a mixed relationship this season, came under fire.<\/p>\n On his social media accounts on Saturday, Salah did not hold back, and his comments will be widely construed as criticism of Slot, including a clear nod to the playing style of previous manager J\u00fcrgen Klopp. \u201cI have witnessed this club go from doubters to believers, and from believers to champions,\u201d began Salah\u2019s post. \u201cIt took hard work and I always did everything I could to help the club get there. Nothing makes me prouder than that.\u201d<\/p>\n Salah continued: \u201cUs crumbling to yet another defeat this season was very painful and not what our fans deserve. I want to see Liverpool<\/a> go back to being the heavy metal attacking team that opponents fear and back to being a team that wins trophies.<\/p>\n \u201cThat is the football I know how to play and that is the identity that needs to be recovered and kept for good. It cannot be negotiable and everyone that joins this club should adapt to it.\u201d<\/p>\n Next weekend, Liverpool face Brentford in a game likely to decide their Champions League destiny, an Anfield occasion that is supposed to serve as a send-off to Salah. The Egyptian, scorer of 257 Liverpool goals, 191 in the Premier League, announced his departure in March<\/a>, ripping up what had been a two-year extension signed last May.<\/p>\n Salah signed off with comments that again appear aimed at Slot, and the club hierarchy of the sporting director Richard Hughes and the chief executive of football, Michael Edwards: \u201cWinning some games here and there is not what Liverpool should be about. All teams win games. Liverpool will always be a club that means a great deal to me and to my family.<\/p>\n \u201cI want to see it succeed for long after I have moved on. As I\u2019ve always said, qualifying to next season\u2019s Champions League is the bare minimum and I will do everything I can to make that happen.\u201d<\/p>\n Salah\u2019s social media comment was liked by a number of Liverpool players, with Curtis Jones adding an applause emoji. The other players who either liked or commented were: Dominik Szoboszlai, Andy Robertson, Hugo Ekitike, Milos Kerkez, Jeremie Frimpong, Wataru Endo, Giovanni Leoni and Harvey Elliott. In a separate post, Jones wrote: \u201cThank you for your continued support in a disappointing season. It\u2019s way off the standards expected at this football club.\u201d<\/p>\n Following Friday\u2019s defeat, Slot, having been barracked by away fans, said<\/a>: \u201cI can understand that, at this moment in time, [the fans] don\u2019t have a lot of confidence or a lot of feeling that things can be much better next season but I think then they are underestimating what a window can do, what a new start can do.\u201d<\/p>\n