Liverpool legend Steve Nicol has hit out at Reds star Mohamed Salah for \u201cwalking around in a daze\u201d this season and ignoring manager Arne Slot\u2019s instructions.<\/p>\n
Salah has three goals and three assists in all competitions but looks nowhere near as sharp as he did last season, when he drove Liverpool to the Premier League title.<\/p>\n
Alan Shearer believes Salah is currently \u201csuffering\u201d as a result of all the \u00a3420m-worth of new arrivals this summer.<\/p>\n
Shearer said on The Rest Is Football<\/a>:\u00a0\u201cFor years now, everything at Liverpool, or most things, have been around Salah and rightly so because when you\u2019re scoring 25, 30, 35 goals, and you can get away with certain things.<\/p>\n READ:\u00a0Will Arne Slot drop Mohamed Salah after Chelsea star reveals damning Maresca plan?<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n \u201cBut there\u2019s so much going on at Liverpool at the minute, in terms of trying to get Isak in, or (Florian) Wirtz in, or Ekitike in, or trying to find the balance of which fullback he gets in.<\/p>\n \u201cThen, to give them a little bit more protection when Mo doesn\u2019t track back, and he\u2019s suffering a little bit at the minute, there\u2019s no doubt about it.\u201d<\/p>\n Chelsea star Marc Cucurella revealed after the Blues\u2019 2-1 victory over Liverpool<\/a><\/strong> that manager Enzo Maresca had told his side to target the Reds\u2019 right side because of Salah\u2019s lack of defensive work.<\/p>\n And former Liverpool full-back Steve Nicol believe Slot must be telling Salah to track the runs of opposition full-backs, meaning the Egyptian is ignoring his orders while \u201cwalking around in a daze\u201d.<\/p>\n \u201c99% of players, when things aren\u2019t going well for them, we understand that it\u2019s fine as long as they work hard,\u201d Nicol told ESPN. \u201cBut he seems to be walking around in a daze. Those breaks with Cucurella, Salah is not even thinking about him and why is that?<\/p>\n \u201cIt surely cannot be that he doesn\u2019t get it or understand it, and there is certainly no way Arne Slot isn\u2019t telling him to keep an eye on Cucurella as he liked to get forward.<\/p>\n \u201cI\u2019m going to be kind to Mo Salah and we can call it low confidence, but right now his head is scrambled and he is not seeing the clear picture.\u201d<\/p>\n MORE LIVERPOOL COVERAGE ON F365\u2026 Gary Lineker insists that Salah is \u201cmissing\u201d Trent Alexander-Arnold, who left Liverpool to join Real Madrid over the summer.<\/p>\n Lineker said: \u201cIn terms of creativity, as much as anything else, I think they\u2019re really missing Trent. Before that, sometimes Trent would go forward and they would, perhaps, get exposed defensively.<\/p>\n \u201cBut what he gives you going the other way, it\u2019s impossible to replace. There is not another player I can think of in world football who plays that position [right-back] in the way that he plays it offensively.<\/p>\n \u201cI also think that Mo [Salah] is missing him, that connection that they had. Yes, sometimes they would get exposed in behind, but they would have someone try and cover that position \u2013 last season it was mostly [Dominik] Szoboszlai, previous to that would be Jordan Henderson.<\/p>\n \u201cYou\u2019ve got to say it was worth his weight in gold going forward, and I always used to say, \u2018Stop worrying about him [Alexander-Arnold] making the odd tiny mistake defensively, because what he gives you the other way is incredible.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Liverpool legend Steve Nicol has hit out at Reds star Mohamed Salah for \u201cwalking around in a daze\u201d…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":484993,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8815],"tags":[1121,748,393,163,4884,179,1128,12,16,15],"class_list":{"0":"post-484992","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-liverpool","8":"tag-arne-slot","9":"tag-britain","10":"tag-england","11":"tag-front-page","12":"tag-great-britain","13":"tag-liverpool","14":"tag-mohamed-salah","15":"tag-news","16":"tag-uk","17":"tag-united-kingdom"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/115342863436870886","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/484992","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=484992"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/484992\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/484993"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=484992"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=484992"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=484992"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
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