{"id":5514,"date":"2025-04-09T09:33:11","date_gmt":"2025-04-09T09:33:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/5514\/"},"modified":"2025-04-09T09:33:11","modified_gmt":"2025-04-09T09:33:11","slug":"chris-sutton-cant-believe-what-hes-now-heard-suggested-about-mo-salah-at-liverpool","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/5514\/","title":{"rendered":"Chris Sutton can\u2019t believe what he\u2019s now heard suggested about Mo Salah at Liverpool"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><strong>Liverpool are having a bit of a wobble as we head into the final weeks of the season.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/tbrfootball.com\/topic\/liverpool\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Liverpool<\/a> are still in great shape to win the Premier League from here, but in recent weeks, the Reds haven\u2019t been great.<\/p>\n<p>Liverpool lost to both PSG and Newcastle in the Champions League and the FA Cup, while <a href=\"https:\/\/tbrfootball.com\/gary-neville-says-whether-diogo-jotas-goal-in-liverpools-1-0-win-vs-everton-shouldve-been-disallowed-as-luis-diaz-was-offside-2\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">they relied on a controversial goal<\/a> to get past Everton in midweek.<\/p>\n<p>On top of that, Liverpool lost to Fulham at the weekend, and questions are starting to be raised about this run of form.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/tbrfootball.com\/gary-neville-makes-mohamed-salah-observation-hes-never-seen-during-liverpools-carabao-cup-loss-v-newcastle\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Mohamed Salah has been criticised as of late<\/a>, and on BBC 606, one caller suggested that Salah isn\u2019t playing as intensely as he wants to avoid an injury.<\/p>\n<p>However, Chris Sutton quickly rebuffed this suggestion, claiming that it\u2019s ridiculous to suggest that Salah is holding himself back.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"677\" loading=\"lazy\"  src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/GettyImages-2204721070-1024x677.jpg\" alt=\"Photo by Julian Finney\/Getty Images\" class=\"wp-image-934169\" \/>Photo by Julian Finney\/Getty ImagesChris Sutton baffled by Mohamed Salah suggestion<\/p>\n<p>Sutton reacted after it was suggested that Salah is holding back in order to avoid injury.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/tbrfootball.com\/how-mohamed-salah-really-feels-about-leaving-liverpool-for-the-saudi-pro-league-this-summer\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Salah has been linked with a move away<\/a> from Liverpool as his contract winds down, but Sutton can\u2019t buy into the idea that the Egyptian is giving any less than 100%.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI\u2019m really hoping that Liverpool stay clear of him. But I also think Salah wasn\u2019t playing because I think he doesn\u2019t want to get injured and he might be looking at moving away and doesn\u2019t want to get injured before,\u201d The caller said.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThat\u2019s ridiculous. So you think Mo Salah is holding it back because he\u2019s got to move on the horizon?\u201d Sutton said.<\/p>\n<p>Mohamed Salah recent form analysed<\/p>\n<p>The idea that Salah is purposefully slowing down in order to avoid injury is quite the conspiracy theory, but it probably doesn\u2019t have any truth to it.<\/p>\n<p>However, it has to be said that Salah\u2019s form has dipped.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/tbrfootball.com\/thierry-henry-and-jamie-carragher-agree-over-whether-liverpools-mohamed-salah-will-win-the-ballon-dor-this-year\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Salah was in Ballon d\u2019Or winning form<\/a> earlier this season, but over the past month or so, Salah has been off his game.<\/p>\n<tr>\n<td\/>\n<td>Mohamed Salah\u2019s last 5 games<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>Goals<\/td>\n<td>2<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>Assists<\/td>\n<td>0<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>Open play goals<\/td>\n<td>0<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>Shots<\/td>\n<td>11<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>Key passes<\/td>\n<td>4<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<p>Salah isn\u2019t getting as many shots away as he usually does, and he now hasn\u2019t scored a goal from open play since February.<\/p>\n<p>Salah isn\u2019t in his groove at the moment, and that\u2019s something that Liverpool need to address as they look to wrap up their status as the champions of England.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Liverpool are having a bit of a wobble as we head into the final weeks of the season.&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":5515,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[2987,162,179,1128,79,16,15],"class_list":{"0":"post-5514","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-sports","8":"tag-chris-sutton","9":"tag-english-premier-league","10":"tag-liverpool","11":"tag-mohamed-salah","12":"tag-sports","13":"tag-uk","14":"tag-united-kingdom"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/114307321453594834","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5514","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=5514"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5514\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/5515"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5514"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5514"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5514"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}