{"id":699578,"date":"2026-01-16T09:28:18","date_gmt":"2026-01-16T09:28:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/699578\/"},"modified":"2026-01-16T09:28:18","modified_gmt":"2026-01-16T09:28:18","slug":"premier-league-news-conferences-slot-to-speak-about-salahs-return","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/699578\/","title":{"rendered":"Premier League news conferences: Slot to speak about Salah’s return"},"content":{"rendered":"

What does the future hold for Salah?published at 08:50 GMT<\/p>\n

08:50 GMT<\/p>\n

\"\"Aadam Patel<\/strong>
BBC Sport Liverpool reporter<\/p>\n

\"MohamedImage source, Getty Images<\/p>\n

“No one in the country wants to win this title more than me. I’ve won everything in football except this one, and I’ve been carrying this pressure for a long time.”<\/p>\n

Those were Salah’s words before the semi-final defeat.<\/p>\n

When Egypt were knocked out by DR Congo in the round-of-16 in 2023, Salah was criticised after leaving the tournament during the group stage due to injury.<\/p>\n

In 2021, Salah never got to take penalty in the final as he was the fifth penalty-taker, with Mane scoring the decisive penalty to give Senegal the title.<\/p>\n

Salah should get a chance again to achieve his dream in the summer of 2027 when the next edition of Afcon takes place in Kenya, Uganda and Tanzania.<\/p>\n

He will turn 35 during that tournament while his current Liverpool contract is set to expire that summer but he remains in peak condition.<\/p>\n

In the here and now, Liverpool will be glad to have Salah back, particularly given their injury crisis.<\/p>\n

With Bradley out, Jeremie Frimpong is likely to deputise at right-back so Salah may return down the right flank unless Slot goes with Dominik Szoboszlai there in a 4-2-3-1 shape, like he did in that game against Brighton.<\/p>\n

Salah could also play up top though Hugo Ekitike is currently the preferred option there.<\/p>\n

The understanding is that Salah will remain a Liverpool player until at least the summer, where he will lead Egypt at the World Cup.<\/p>\n

What happens after that remains to be seen. Salah is a player who wants to start football matches and will not be content with sitting on the bench.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"What does the future hold for Salah?published at 08:50 GMT 08:50 GMT Aadam PatelBBC Sport Liverpool reporter Image…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":699579,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8815],"tags":[748,393,4884,179,16,15],"class_list":{"0":"post-699578","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-great-britain","11":"tag-liverpool","12":"tag-uk","13":"tag-united-kingdom"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/115904073153235260","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/699578","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=699578"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/699578\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/699579"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=699578"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=699578"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=699578"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}