For the first time throughout his entire reign as Liverpool manager, Arne Slot has named a Premier League starting XI which doesn’t include Mohamed Salah.
The Dutch boss has been under immense pressure after overseeing nine defeats from Liverpool’s last 12 games, the club’s worst run of form in 72 years. Slot batted away suggestions that his job was under threat despite shifting the blame away from his players to take full responsibility for this ruinous sequence of results.
Other onlookers have not been so kind.
Former Manchester United forward Wayne Rooney was not alone in calling for Salah to be dropped after last weekend’s desperately underwhelming 3–0 defeat to Nottingham Forest. The Egyptian forward was retained for Wednesday’s dismal 4–1 Champions League reverse at home to PSV Eindhoven and has now been dropped to the bench for the Sunday’s trip to West Ham United.
