Mohamed Salah Posts Criticism, Leaves Arne Slot Facing Brentford Call — Liverpool Fc News
Mohamed Salah pushed Liverpool fc news back to the center of the final-day race on Saturday by criticizing the club’s direction under Arne Slot. The post lands before Sunday’s match against Brentford, with Liverpool still needing results to break into the top five.
Salah’s timing matters because Liverpool must beat Brentford to keep that route alive if Bournemouth defeat Manchester City on Tuesday. If City win instead, Liverpool’s place in next season’s Champions League would be secured.
Salah and Slot
Slot has already shown he is willing to act against Salah. In December, he left the forward at home for Liverpool’s Champions League trip to Inter after Salah gave an incendiary interview at Leeds three days earlier.
That history turns Saturday’s post into more than a flare-up. Salah is leaving Liverpool, and any decision to sanction him again would arrive with the club still fighting over European qualification and trying to manage a strained dressing room picture before the last league game.
Brentford and Bournemouth
The Brentford trip comes after Liverpool beat Aston Villa 4-2 at Villa Park on Friday, but the season’s numbers still frame the problem. Liverpool have 19 defeats, all of them coming in the past 48 matches, and they have conceded 52 goals in a 38-game Premier League season.
There is also a clear selection issue. Liverpool have failed to win any of the nine league games Salah has not started in 2026, which leaves Slot weighing the short-term risk of leaving him out against the bigger cost of any further split with a forward whose words carry weight inside the club.
Anfield and Slot
The pressure on Slot is not only about one player. Anfield turned on his style of play during the last home game against Chelsea, so Sunday’s team sheet will be read against both the result and the mood around the manager.
Salah’s own line — that his concerns are widely shared by the Liverpool fanbase and the Liverpool squad — puts the dispute in public view. His claim that Liverpool should keep “personal grievances aside and Liverpool’s interests first” leaves Slot with a blunt call: use him, sideline him, or risk carrying the argument into a match Liverpool need to handle cleanly.
With Bournemouth hosting Manchester City on Tuesday, Liverpool’s route to the Champions League sits on two fronts at once: beat Brentford, and then wait on the other result, or let City decide it before the final whistle in Liverpool’s own season.
