{"id":256063,"date":"2025-10-28T06:23:08","date_gmt":"2025-10-28T06:23:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/256063\/"},"modified":"2025-10-28T06:23:08","modified_gmt":"2025-10-28T06:23:08","slug":"liverpools-lack-of-leadership-salahs-form-big-concerns-rooney","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/256063\/","title":{"rendered":"Liverpool’s lack of leadership, Salah’s form ‘big concerns’ – Rooney"},"content":{"rendered":"

Former Manchester United<\/a> and England<\/a> forward Wayne Rooney has attributed Liverpool<\/a>‘s four game Premier League<\/a> losing streak to a lack of leadership, adding that star man Mohamed Salah<\/a>‘s form is a “big concern.”<\/p>\n

Defending champions Liverpool lost 3-2 at Brentford<\/a> on Saturday, leaving them seventh in the league and seven points behind leaders Arsenal<\/a>, who beat Crystal Palace<\/a> on Sunday.<\/p>\n

Amid their faltering title defence, Rooney has questioned whether Liverpool have the leaders required for the top end of the Premier League.<\/p>\n

“Virgil van Dijk<\/a> and Mohamed Salah, they’ve signed new deals but I don’t think they’ve really led that team this season,” Rooney said.<\/p>\n

Virgil van Dijk and Mohamed Salah have struggled to hit the heights of last season this term.\u00a0Visionhaus\/Getty Images<\/p>\n

“I think body language tells you a lot, and I think we’re seeing slightly different body language from the two of them.<\/p>\n

“They are the top two players in that team and if their body language is not right, that affects everyone else. I might be wrong on this, but if I was a Liverpool fan or the manager, that would be a big concern for me.”<\/p>\n

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Rooney also spoke of how Liverpool’s may struggle to get back into winning ways after a series of sluggish performances.<\/p>\n

“No one has seen this coming, it’s hit them quick, it’s hit them hard and I think they’re struggling to find a way out of it,” he said.<\/p>\n

“This is a time where the manager and the leaders in the team need to figure it out very quickly.”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Former Manchester United and England forward Wayne Rooney has attributed Liverpool‘s four game Premier League losing streak to…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":251277,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[69],"tags":[403,99],"class_list":["post-256063","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-soccer","tag-soccer","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/256063","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=256063"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/256063\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/251277"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=256063"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=256063"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=256063"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}