Mohamed Salah and Jurgen Klopp have been the two great driving forces of the most successful. Liverpool era in decades so if the relationship had to break at last then the club would surely rather. It was three games from the end, with nothing left to play for.
Even so, it was a quite spectacular conflagration on the touchline at the London Stadium. With Salah so intent on making his point he was push away. From the row with his manager by his team-mates. Even Klopp, a man who tends to rush towards confrontation rather than. The other way, Seem to be taken aback. Darwin Nunez and then Joe Gomez, both also waiting to come on, interven and at the end of the game Salah was swiftly off the scene.
Klopp has three games left as Liverpool manager. Salah may well have the same as one of the club’s greatest-ever players. But unlike Sir Alex Ferguson and Wayne Rooney, not even on speaking terms when they collected Manchester United’s 20th – and most recent league title – in May 2013. สมัคร ufabet This dispute came out of nowhere. Even through his resignation announcement and the subsequent crash in form, Klopp has not yet clashed with any of his players – in public at least.
Salah had been dropped for the game – or rest as per interpretation – along with four other team-mates. Who had started the defeat at Goodison Park on Wednesday. He was due to come on just as Michail Antonio scored West Ham’s second. Although that indignity alone was unlikely to have been enough to prompt such a furious response.
“We spoke about it in the dressing room and it is done for me,” Klopp said in his post-match press conference.
“That’s it.” Was the same the case with Salah, he was ask. “That’s my impression,” the Liverpool manager replied.
The bigger picture is that Salah’s contract expires in one year’s time and the lucrative offer from Saudi Arabia has likely not gone away since. It would be no great surprise to see him leave this summer – although a pity to see such a formidable player. Depart for a competition of that calibre at such a relatively young age.
Salah’s response when he left the stadium was playful, but also telling: “There’s going to be fire today if I speak.” It was done with half a smile. But given this is a man who rarely talks publicly, aside from the occasional grand set-piece interview, it was indicative that he spoke at all.