It was the relaxed way that Arne Slot threw the name of Mohamed Salah in the Anfield press conference room on Sunday evening which shouted his meaning.
“It is so difficult to win a football game,” said Slot. “People always have the impression:” Ah, you have Mo Salah, what are you talking about? ” He will always score a goal. ” No – it’s difficult.
Salah scores almost always or helps a goal, in fact. He failed to produce one in four of the 25 Liverpool Premier League games this season, scored 38.3% of the team’s goals and had more involvement of the objectives than nine entire teams of the Division succeeded.
The dependence of Salah de Liverpool has been indisputable in recent weeks. He didn’t really torn the games, but then with optimal efficiency, he is struck.
There was the lens and the cross -cut cross for the ball head of Alexis Mac Allister at Goodison Park. The penalty against wolves. Even his absence in Plymouth. “I think Liverpool must realize how important it is to keep it,” said Graeme Souness about the defeat of the FA Cup.
Slot’s language on Salah seems so hot than that of Jurgen Klopp. “He is so experienced and intelligent and knows so well where the ball will fall,” said Slot last Friday. “This is a positive thing at the origin of 32 years – he lived so many situations.” The feeling seems to be mutual. “Excellent in his work,” tweeted Salah’s agent on Slot on Friday. Not the kind of public love he expressed for Klopp.
Liverpool’s dependence on Mohamed Salah is undeniable and his statistics improve with age
It seems to have a warmer relationship with the Arne slit than with Jurgen Klopp
Liverpool should break his rules for a 32 -year -old man whose physics does not deteriorate
Relations with those that are higher in Liverpool’s food chain do not seem as warm. Salah feels a little less loved up there.
Liverpool is in a liaison of the quantity to be invested to engage in the extension of his contract.
He will be 33 years old in June and maintaining it beyond this age goes against the grain of ethics based on the data on which the return of Liverpool was based on the top of the British game.
At the heart of this philosophy, there is no guarantee what a player of this age will offer you. A physical drop and a depreciation of the assets will inevitably come. Liverpool generally does not register for decisions like this.
But Salah, built as a torpedo and delivering better statistics than two years ago, also takes place against the usual physical standards.
A Liverpool team without him would be a shadow of the current shadow. The replacements that Liverpool has examined include Bryan Mbeumo from Brentford, Antoine Semenyo de Bournemouth, Jamie Gittens by Borussia Dortmund and Takefusa Kubo from Real Sociedad. But would one of these authorize Salah’s objectives?
There would be a greater certainty on Alexander Isak from Newcastle. But expenses could be 120 million pounds sterling and perhaps £ 350,000 per week in salary. Salah is the man already in the building, with all the certainties that bring. It seems a very easy equation and the Liverpool position is that they want to keep it. It is the figures – the salary and the duration of the agreement – which are uncertain.
Would it remain for a lower basic salary and more based on performance over the next two years?
Liverpool relies on him more than on other icons due to a lack of objectives elsewhere
Cody Gakpo has improved considerably under the slit, but the other attackers are far from being
Their loss for Plymouth in his absence was a bitter taste of what life could be after Salah
Salah’s agent has not expressed so much love for Klopp, but described the slot machine as “excellent”
The Egyptian is even more integral to the club than Kevin Keegan (above), because Kenny Dalgish was an obvious replacement for him – with Salah, Liverpool does not have such a luxury
The best replacements of Salah are rare, and is it really worth risking 120 million pounds sterling on Alexander Isak?
Annmental renewals for Salah and Virgil Van Dijk would be a huge boost for their title offer
Salah’s negotiation position is reinforced by the fact that the other shots of the attackers turn anywhere near the same threat of objective. Diogo Jota, starting his first championship match in four months on Sunday, fought with fitness and puts himself in nowhere near the same number of score situations. His expected goal figure (XG) for this season and the last is 16.8. Salah is 52.7. Jota could not grasp the leftovers against wolves.
Cody Gakpo was the emerging force this season – used with much more effect by the slot machine than Klopp. But Luis Diaz’s goal on Sunday was his first calendar year, and Darwin Nunez, popular because of his work ethics, lack of consistency. While Salah scored 53 times compared to an XG of 52.7, Nunez scored 24 goals on an XG of 33.6, which is therefore underperforming almost 10 goals.
In the large era of Liverpool of the 1970s and 80s, there was an obvious solution at a time like this. When Kevin Keegan, fascinated by European football, told Bob Paisley that he wanted to leave, Kenny Dalglish was the ideal replacement. Salah is even more integrated by Liverpool than Keegan at the time, but there is no obvious Dalglish silhouette this time.
Two additional years for Salah would allow Liverpool to replace a replacement and make a kind of succession, which is difficult, although this type of process is in the modern era. Under Paisley, renowned signatures like Ray Kennedy and Terry McDermott were signed and then initiated to Liverpool Way while waiting for their time on the sidelines.
There were clues of a breakthrough with Salah. A SAUDI PRO League main advisor was cited last week as said that the Saudis estimated that they were used ‘in negotiations for a contract that would see Al Hilal offering the player 65 million pounds sterling for two seasons. The advisor said: “We get less indication from the player he even plans to move here.”
A joint ad saying that Salah and Virgil Van Dijk must stay would be a huge boost in the middle of the Liverpool attempt to advance the title.
In the meantime, the club will take the usual confidence of having Salah in the side at Aston Villa Wednesday evening.
