Mohamed Salah spoke frankly about his former manager Jurgen Klopp when he described the main differences from German compared to Arne Slot.
Salah played 349 games on Klopp in Liverpool, scored 211 goals, helped bring a League title to Anfield for the first time in 30 years and was essential to its success in the Champions League in 2019.
Under the slot machine, the Egyptian scored 33 goals and provided 23 assists all competitions this season, including 28 goals in the Premier League.
Salah’s performances helped the Dutch manager direct the Reds to their 20th English high flight title in his first season, leveling the Manchester United rivals for the most.
After Klopp called Time on his mandate as Liverpool last season, many wondered how the club would survive in his absence.
But Salah revealed how easy it was for them to bounce back, under the direction of Slot.
Mo Salah detailed the differences in play under Jurgen Klopp and Arne Slot in Liverpool
Salah revealed that he and his teammates were in their “comfort zones” in the last stages of Klopp
The Reds winger explained that the niche “brought back the competition at stake” and is “very direct”
The Egyptian explained that he and his teammates fell in complacency towards the last stages of the Klopp reign.
He argued that Slot’s “direct” approach helped bring back the competition at stake “to the club.
“In pre-season, Arne came to see me and asked me to be an example for the other players,” Salah told L’Equipe.
“I told him not to worry because I am always at my best, not to give the example but because I am like that.
“He told me what he expected from me in the game, with a lot of responsibilities in animation, I liked it.
“Arne is very direct, he brought back the competition at stake, while with Jurgen, we were perhaps a little too much in our comfort zone towards the end.
“Arne and her staff are more open to discussion, the exchange of feelings, I think it was important in my performances. And, above all, it led us to success.
Salah continued explaining that winning the title of the Premier League in 2025 was a more satisfactory feat than when they did in 2020, despite the end of the drought of the Liverpool title of Liverpool.
Klopp won eight trophies in Liverpool, including a title of Premier League and the Champions League
Slot led the Reds to a 20th English high flight record for his first season at the club
He added; “I told Virgile that, without removing the credit of anyone, winning the League without a jurgen,” Bobby “, Sadio,” Hendo “(Jordan Henderson) and all the 2020 teammates were even more special because we have a group of very good players, but most of them had never won before. It is rewarding.
Klopp took charge of 491 games in Liverpool, winning 299 – an impressive victory rate of 61%.
The veteran manager won eight trophies with the Merseyside Club – a title of the Premier League, a title of the Champions League, a FA Cup, two championship cups, a community shield FA, a Super Cup of UEFA and a World Cup of the Fifa Club.
He called her at the end of last season after a historic nine year spell in Anfield, and is the world football chief of Red Bull since January.
Klopp is widely considered not only one of the greatest managers in Liverpool of all time, but one of the greatest in the era of the Premier League.
