{"id":629150,"date":"2025-12-12T23:39:12","date_gmt":"2025-12-12T23:39:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/629150\/"},"modified":"2025-12-12T23:39:12","modified_gmt":"2025-12-12T23:39:12","slug":"liverpool-superstar-is-getting-old-but-he-can-be-big-fish-in-a-new-league","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/629150\/","title":{"rendered":"Liverpool superstar is &#8216;getting old&#8217; but he can be &#8216;big fish&#8217; in a new league"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Chris Waddle has told Mohamed Salah that he can go be a \u201cbig fish\u201d in a new league as the Liverpool star must accept he is \u201cgetting old.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.football365.com\/tag\/mohamed-salah\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>Salah<\/strong><\/a> hit out at <a href=\"https:\/\/www.football365.com\/liverpool\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>Liverpool<\/strong><\/a> last week. After his third game on the bench in a row, he suggested he had been \u201cthrown under the bus\u201d by the club, among other complaints.<\/p>\n<p>He was stopped from travelling to the San Siro to face Inter Milan in the week, but is back to face Brighton this weekend.<\/p>\n<p>Whether he plays is another question, and some feel he has played his last game for Liverpool. If that is the case, Saudi Arabia looks the most likely destination for him.<\/p>\n<p>But Waddle has instead suggested the MLS as Salah\u2019s next destination.<\/p>\n<p>He told WhichBookie: \u201cSalah will argue that he wants to play every game. Especially given he signed that new contract, there would\u2019ve been expectations that came with that. The game changes, though, so he has to adapt to that.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIf he\u2019s not happy, he should put in a transfer request for January. There\u2019ll be plenty of clubs interested, he\u2019ll have offers. He could do what Heung-min Son did and go to the MLS and have a nice break after AFCON, to start training in March and start a new career in America where he\u2019d be a big fish.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cPlayers want to play forever, but you can\u2019t help the fact that you\u2019re getting old. Unfortunately for Mohamed Salah, he is getting old.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe game is getting quicker, especially in the Premier League, and there have been cases this season where Conor Bradley has been exposed on that right-hand side because Salah isn\u2019t tracking back, and that\u2019s led to goals.<\/p>\n<p><strong>MORE ON LIVERPOOL FROM F365:<br \/>*\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.football365.com\/news\/liverpool-salah-receives-huge-offer-leave-henderson-meeting\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Salah receives incredible \u00a3130m \u2018offer\u2019 to leave Liverpool after Henderson rendezvous<\/a><br \/>*\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.football365.com\/news\/arne-slot-sack-steven-gerrard-liverpool\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Steven Gerrard \u2018very keen\u2019 to return to Liverpool if offer to manage comes<\/a><\/strong><br \/><strong>*\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.football365.com\/news\/liverpool-alisson-packing-bags-salah-not-only-player-leave-milan-offer\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Liverpool star \u2018packing his bags\u2019 as Salah \u2018won\u2019t be the only player to leave\u2019 amid interesting offer<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>\u201cWhat\u2019s being asked of him, to track back and help out the defence, that\u2019s sadly not in his game at the moment. The only way he\u2019ll get that freedom is to play him floating up the pitch, in a Florian Wirtz-type role and tell him that they don\u2019t need him to track back and everyone else picks up the slack.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cYou can organise your team to do that and let him get on with things, but he\u2019s getting to that age now where he\u2019ll be feeling the pace of the game, whether he likes it or not. He doesn\u2019t want to be on the bench, so I think Arne Slot is doing the right thing by playing him as and when he sees fit.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><strong>READ MORE<\/strong>: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.football365.com\/news\/worse-player-salah-kicked-out-neville\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>Lesser player than Salah would be \u2018kicked out pretty quickly\u2019 but Neville accepts Liverpool outburst<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Chris Waddle has told Mohamed Salah that he can go be a \u201cbig fish\u201d in a new league&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":629151,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[8815],"tags":[748,51193,393,163,4884,179,1128,12,101,16,15],"class_list":["post-629150","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-liverpool","tag-britain","tag-chris-waddle","tag-england","tag-front-page","tag-great-britain","tag-liverpool","tag-mohamed-salah","tag-news","tag-premier-league","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/115709238552577049","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/629150","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=629150"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/629150\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/629151"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=629150"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=629150"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=629150"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}