Liverpool have ‘moved on’ from Salah saga with Egypt star away at AFCON

Liverpool’s Mohamed Salah has joined Egypt for AFCON 2025 but has been linked with a determination to the Saudi Pro League.

Arne Slot said Liverpool person “moved on” from the furore caused by Mohamed Salah’s explosive outburst astatine being dropped and are showing signs of increasing into the broadside helium wants to see.

The Reds statesman what could beryllium up to a period without Salah, who is representing Egypt astatine the 2025 Africa Cup of Nations (AFCON), away astatine Tottenham Hotspur successful the Premier League connected Saturday.

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After a tally of 9 defeats successful 12 games, Slot has steadied the vessel successful a five-game unbeaten run, during which Salah did not commencement a azygous game.

“Actions talk louder than words. We moved on,” Slot told reporters connected Friday, referring to his determination to bring Salah connected arsenic a substitute successful past week’s 2-0 triumph implicit Brighton.

Salah said aft the 3-3 gully astatine Leeds United – the 3rd consecutive crippled for which helium was benched – that helium had been thrown nether the autobus for Liverpool’s woes this season. He was dropped from the squad that travelled to Inter Milan successful the Reds adjacent match. Subsequently, involvement was shown from Saudi Arabia astir bringing Salah to the Saudi Pro League.

“Now he’s astatine the AFCON playing large games for himself and the country,” Slot continued. “All the absorption for him is implicit determination and determination should not beryllium immoderate distraction of maine saying thing due to the fact that we moved connected aft the Leeds interrogation and helium played against Brighton.”

Despite a hard 2nd play for Slot successful England, Liverpool beryllium seventh successful the Premier League and would determination into the apical 4 with a triumph against struggling Spurs.

The English champions transformed their squad implicit the summertime transportation window, spending astir 450 cardinal pounds ($602m) to bring successful Alexander Isak, Florian Wirtz, Hugo Ekitike, Jeremie Frimpong and Milos Kerkez.

Apart from the awesome Ekitike, each the caller signings person struggled, and Slot conceded helium had been overly optimistic implicit however agelong it would instrumentality for his new-look squad to execute consistently.

“I deliberation we are getting person and person to the squad I privation america to beryllium and that has gone with ups and downs,” said the Dutchman.

“But for me, that makes implicit consciousness due to the fact that each the changes we’ve made during the summer, and we made them connected intent due to the fact that we thought we needed to.

“If I’m wholly honest, possibly I didn’t expect it to instrumentality possibly arsenic agelong arsenic it did, but, looking backmost connected it, reflecting connected it now, I deliberation I’ve been excessively affirmative due to the fact that if you spell with a caller radical wherever not each of them are wholly acceptable to play each azygous game, 90 minutes successful this intensity, you person to adapt.

“Sometimes helium tin play, past helium cannot play. So it takes possibly a spot of time, and we’ve been precise unlucky.”

Joe Gomez and Cody Gakpo volition miss the travel to Tottenham owed to injury, but Slot is hopeful that Dominik Szoboszlai volition beryllium acceptable to start. Frimpong returns aft a two-month absence.