{"id":619721,"date":"2025-12-08T09:04:19","date_gmt":"2025-12-08T09:04:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/619721\/"},"modified":"2025-12-08T09:04:19","modified_gmt":"2025-12-08T09:04:19","slug":"liverpool-are-pr-creation-as-salah-walks-alone-like-trent","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/619721\/","title":{"rendered":"Liverpool are &#8216;PR creation&#8217; as Salah walks alone like Trent&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Liverpool, \u2018This Means More\u2019 and YNWA have prompted a whole lot of laughter after the last few days as Mohamed Salah walks alone.<\/p>\n<p>This is a pure Liverpool and Salah mailbox. If you want <a href=\"https:\/\/www.football365.com\/news\/16-conclusions-title-contenders-aston-villa-arsenal-mailbox\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><strong>views on Aston Villa, Arsenal and Trump, click here<\/strong><\/a>. And e-mail your thoughts to theeditor@football365.com<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Succinct on Salah<\/p>\n<p>Mohamed Salah, bit of a small bell-end it turns out.<\/p>\n<p>Saudi in January it is.<br \/><strong>Will<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u2026In a\u00a0week that saw a\u00a0true club\u00a0legend,\u00a0Billy Bonds, pass\u00a0away, Salah\u2019s unbelievable statement yesterday stands in sharp contrast. Any supposed\u00a0leader and club hero\u00a0would deal with being benched for 2 or 3 games (out of 400+ ffs)\u00a0by saying\u00a0\u201cobviously I\u2019d love to be playing but I just want to help the club\u00a0in whatever way they want to use me\u201d. Instead he has shown that he thinks he is far bigger than the team and the club. Contemptuous.<br \/><strong>Mike, WHU<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u2026I haven\u2019t been performing the best at work lately. I\u2019ve missed a few key deadlines and failed to execute a project that my boss had expected me to deliver but that\u2019s all ok. Tomorrow I\u2019m going to let everyone know that the company doesn\u2019t have my back, that someone in the organization is throwing me under the bus and that this may be the last week I work there.<br \/>It should go over well.<br \/><strong>Joe Salad, Montreal, Canada<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Laughing at Liverpool walking alone<\/p>\n<p>It took an entirety of two games for your \u201cclub legend\u201d to throw his manager &amp; his club under the bus cause he can\u2019t come to terms with his own decline.<\/p>\n<p>Looks like Trent made the right choice. Y\u2019all will always be walking alone. Can\u2019t stop laughing at the Mo vs Slot interview.<\/p>\n<p>Cheers to Liverpool\u2019s downfall,<br \/><strong>Aman<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u2026In response to Darren\u2019s email, he unknowingly has summed up the ridiculousness of Liverpool FC\u2019s media persona in a few brief lines \u2013 it\u2019s all a fallacy, a big fat lie.<\/p>\n<p>You\u2019ll Never Walk Alone unless you are Stevie G looking at Chelsea, you know to actually win the league.<\/p>\n<p>Or if you are TAA who gave the club great service and is now a pariah because he wanted to play at an iconic club.<\/p>\n<p>Now it\u2019s the Mo Show, probably the best player they\u2019ve had this century, (albeit there\u2019s some competition to that honour) for daring to state his case.<\/p>\n<p>Liverpool are a PR creation, it\u2019s all BS and everyone outside their fanbase knows it.<br \/><strong>Paul, Dublin<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u2026Supporters of This Means More FC showing <a href=\"https:\/\/www.football365.com\/news\/mailbox-liverpool-sack-slot-snake-salah-ruining-legacy-alexander-arnold-arsenal-world-cup\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><strong>how quickly they\u2019ll turn on a club legend<\/strong><\/a> for having the audacity to question a failing manager. The same supporters who welcomed Isak\u2019s unprofessional stance in the summer now lambasting Salah for doing something far less damaging. Once again (see Trent) showing that \u2018you\u2019ll never walk alone\u2019 only applies until it doesn\u2019t.<\/p>\n<p>To clarify, I\u2019m not suggesting they\u2019re more hypocritical than any other fan base; I\u2019m merely saying that they\u2019re exactly the same. No better, no worse, more entitled yes, but certainly no more special than anyone else.<\/p>\n<p>Cover up those murals!<br \/><strong>Ratt Mitchie NUFC (sack the manager)<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u2026Have I misunderstood one of the most famous songs in English football all these years?<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAs you walk through the storm\u2026 You\u2019ll never walk alone\u201d?<\/p>\n<p>Unless you are Roy Hodgson, Trent Alexander-Arnold, Mo Salah, etc., or indeed, the entire Liverpool team if they play badly at home and you boo them and leave the stadium early?<\/p>\n<p>Or are Liverpool fans the hypocritical frauds they seem to be?<\/p>\n<p>It\u2019s a mystery.<br \/><strong>Col Brown<\/strong><br \/>(this season\u2019s reality versus what was expected is *chef\u2019s kiss*)<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u2026I\u2019ve never really had a dislike for Liverpool but f*** me their fans recently have been brutal. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.football365.com\/news\/mailbox-liverpool-sack-slot-snake-salah-ruining-legacy-alexander-arnold-arsenal-world-cup\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><strong>Darren sums it up tbh<\/strong><\/a>. The crying about Trent is ridiculous. The best way a player can leave is by honouring his contract. Get over it. But what utter shite he\u2019s speaking about Salah. I disagree completely with Salah\u2019s behavior. He hasn\u2019t done one interview this season and now does one to disrupt the team. I said it all of last season that they shouldn\u2019t give him a new deal. But what are you on about?!<\/p>\n<p>\u201ctaking you from mediocrity in Italy, to giving you the freedom to become a world class player, you\u2019ve been given everything.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>He\u2019s more than f***ing repaid Liverpool. You\u2019ve been given everything? He\u2019s give them everything! Mediocrity in Italy? He was one of the best players in Serie A. When people need to lie to prove their point it makes it invalid to me. You can just say Salah has been a dickhead.<br \/><strong>Dion, Arsenal<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u2026Good God, I think the irony of Darren signing off his screed YNWA has just set my phone on fire.<\/p>\n<p>Please forward me his email address and I\u2019ll send him the bill.<br \/><strong>TGWolf(Unbelievable Jeff)THFC<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u2026Well that settles it Kopites, you were right \u2013 Salah definitely isn\u2019t a selfish player at all. Y\u2019all can stop now btw, this is almost too funny. Delusional wee prick has some front though, I\u2019ll give him that.<br \/><strong>RHT\/TS x<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Mo Salah only cares about Mo Salah<\/p>\n<p>I\u2019ve been looking for a comparison to make regarding Salah\u2019s ridiculous post-match whinge. Just now it struck me that the outburst reminds me of the classic episode of Futurama, when Bender gets ejected from the Moon\u2019s theme park and announces that he is in fact unbothered, because he will \u201cgo build his own themepark, with blackjack! And hookers!\u201d Bender doesn\u2019t want to go build his own themepark. He\u2019s just lashing out because he\u2019s embarrassed about getting kicked out.<\/p>\n<p>Mo Salah is embarrassed because Mo Salah believes that Mo Salah is too big to sit on the bench for 3 consecutive games. Mo Salah does not believe it matters how poorly he plays, Mo Salah believes he should always play because he used to be the best. He said so explicitly in his rant. These are not the words of a man who will square the effing ball to Wirtz or Chiesa the next time they are sitting in front of an open-goal tap-in.<\/p>\n<p>Whether Slot is or isn\u2019t the right man for the job is a separate discussion; what is absolutely clear is that Mo Salah cares more about Mo Salah than he cares about his teammates or the team\u2019s overall success.<br \/><strong>Oliver Dziggel, Geneva Switzerland<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u2026Tbh, he\u2019s not having the best of seasons, his benching was well deserved\u2026now you may argue whether he should have been benched 3 in a row or not, but regardless instead of taking the time off to clear his mind and get ready to pounce when the chance to start came again, he\u2019s behaving like a toddler throwing his toys out of the pram.<\/p>\n<p>It\u2019s even worse when you consider, that being a senior player, his words would have much impact and would quickly gain a media frenzy.<br \/>facilitating creation of such a hostile atmosphere when your club is already struggling is beyond the pale.<\/p>\n<p>Other such great players have had to deal with aging and being benched and many have fought for their place or if not, quietly left without creating such a furore by simply stating intentions to want a new challenge.<br \/><strong>Abhinav, Mumbai ( guess you do walk have to walk alone)<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The Liverpool crisis is real; Arne Slot should be sacked<\/p>\n<p>There is no denying it now, we are in a crisis. After the City game I genuinely believed the worst was behind us and we could get our act together with the \u2018easy\u2019 run of fixtures coming up. Yet here we are having won only one of five pretty winnable games.<\/p>\n<p>We now have our star player airing out his frustrations with the manager and the club. If that is Salah, who\u2019s arguably been the most favored by the manager, speaking that way then imagine what the likes of Chiesa or Endo might have to say. Salah is out of line and this just proves his selfish nature making it all about him when he won\u2019t be here for the next month or so. It\u2019s clear though that he has no respect for the manager, under Klopp he would have kept those feelings to himself like he did that time against West Ham.<\/p>\n<p>I don\u2019t blame Salah though, listening to the manager speak barely inspires confidence. When I saw those Jacob Murphy quotes I thought they were made up. We have a superior player in Chiesa who doesn\u2019t get any meaningful minutes but still does his best yet the manager shamelessly tries to cover up his own incompetence. He then bluntly admitted he doesn\u2019t care about our other player on loan.<\/p>\n<p>The manager is failing in pretty much every department and should be sacked. The one certainty with him is that things can in fact get even worse.<br \/><strong>Philip Correa <\/strong><\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Can both Mo and Arne stay please\u2026<\/p>\n<p>Just wanted to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.football365.com\/news\/liverpool-poll-mo-salah-arne-slot-sack\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><strong>submit a 4th option to your survey<\/strong><\/a>, Slot out? Salah out? Both out?<\/p>\n<p>Both in please, have a chat like grownups. Mo could come back from Afcon and get back on board, please<br \/><strong>Dermot in Dublin<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Two wrongs can make a wrong<\/p>\n<p>Social media has wrought an attitude that something has to be wrong for another thing to be right. No nuance.<\/p>\n<p>Is it possible that both Salah and Slot can be wrong \u2013 and for different reasons \u2013 and, perhaps, Liverpool\u2019s management as well?<\/p>\n<p>Salah only speaks when he is being negative towards Liverpool. It is disrespectful to his team mates and the fans, who support him to the nth degree. Everyone (in the Liverpool firmament) deeply wants him to do better. (I would suspect even a few fantasy football managers too.)<\/p>\n<p>It was mooted that Slot is at fault for not giving Salah a hug. Yet Salah fell out with the huggiest football manager of all time when he was benched.<\/p>\n<p>And what about the seeming Edwards\/Hughes Galactico project? How much was Slot invested in it? Why do we only hear that \u2018management\u2019 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.football365.com\/news\/liverpool-emergency-meeting-today-manager-ready-step-replace-sack-slot\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><strong>are having \u2018Emergency\u2019 meetings<\/strong><\/a>? I am sure they are having discussions but is it to throw Slot under the bus or ask what they can do to help?<\/p>\n<p>Even so, as Klopp and Guardiola have done in the past, new players were eased in as they learned the system. Not shoe-horned in. Winning so many games off the bat gave a false dawn that players knew what to do.<\/p>\n<p>Is Salah the worst performer? No. Week to week, different players, except Konate for the wrong reasons and Szoboslai for the right reasons, have underperformed. But Salah has been a consistent 5 out of 10 or worse. Salah has been impressive in staying in great physical shape, and playing so many games over the years. But how much of that was due to the manager allowing him so much freedom to \u2018rest\u2019 during games and not press or track back as much?<\/p>\n<p>But with the whole team in need of everyone pulling together, you can see why Slot benched Salah. Yet Slot messed it up by taking off Bradley and leaving on Konate. When will Gomez be given a run at centre back in his place?<\/p>\n<p>The reality is there is enough blame to go around. Will firing one person, Slot, fix everything? If for the right reasons \u2013 finding someone who can make this team fire again, make top four and build for the future, okay. But not to appease a p***ed off Salah.<br \/><strong>Paul McDevitt<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>It all looks daft from afar<\/p>\n<p>I\u2019m just a plastic fan living overseas so I don\u2019t get it and how it means more. I like being entertained by hard-working millionaires because life isn\u2019t all sausages and rainbows. But the TAA traitor nonsense followed by the Salah is Judas rubbish. Give it a rest would you? This isn\u2019t a \u201cyou make us all look dumb diatribe\u201d because there is no we here.<\/p>\n<p>You are binning a legend who gave you more than you deserved all for shiny new toys who can\u2019t even run 10k. Sometimes players are bigger than the team and deserve to go out on their terms. Our identity was intensity; now it\u2019s just another bald philosophizer without a clue. Pulls or Fat Sam would have this team in the top 4 without breaking a sweat or using a whiteboard.<br \/><strong>Niall, Annapolis<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Liverpool, \u2018This Means More\u2019 and YNWA have prompted a whole lot of laughter after the last few days&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":428222,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8815],"tags":[748,393,163,4884,225,179,23163,1128,122477,16,15],"class_list":{"0":"post-619721","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-liverpool","8":"tag-britain","9":"tag-england","10":"tag-front-page","11":"tag-great-britain","12":"tag-home-page","13":"tag-liverpool","14":"tag-mailbox","15":"tag-mohamed-salah","16":"tag-popular","17":"tag-uk","18":"tag-united-kingdom"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/115683148680936801","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/619721","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=619721"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/619721\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/428222"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=619721"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=619721"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=619721"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}