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Original Title: Arne Slot: "We’ve let Salah know he’s not traveling with us. That’s been the only communication between us and him. Saying our relationship broke down…the two of us have spoken a lot, sometimes longer sometimes shorter but that’s not the way I feel. Usually I’m calm, I’m polite but I’m not weak…
More quotes (updating):
“…To extent it was a surprise to me the comments he gave…”
Arne Slot on ‘thrown under the bus’ comments: “It is hard for me to tell who he means in that situation to be honest.”
Arne Slot on his authority: “I don’t feel my authority has been undermined. It’s not about me, it’s about it being more difficult for the team and the club. Nobody likes being in this situation. It’s difficult to see staff members who work hard on a daily basis being affected by it, mainly the results. Mostly my thoughts go to that. I’m important to his situation as I pick the team but my focus is on the team and not me.”
“He has every right to feel what he feels, but if he has the right to share it with the media then we have to react with it.”
Arne Slot on if he was on speaking terms with Mohamed Salah: “Yes we were. But it doesn’t mean that we were always agreeing on things. I spoke to him twice in the week, the two days before Leeds.”
“Usually I’m calm, I’m polite but I’m not weak…If someone makes the comments he did publicly, then its up to us as a club to react to it, and we did.”
Arne Slot on why Salah hasn’t played: “We have struggled as a team more and more this season with the gameplan teams have against us. I’m not just talking long ball as teams often play against us. I’ve tried many solutions which is my job. We looked very vulnerable v Forest and PSV so I decided to play another midfielder against West Ham which we won. I brought him in at half-time v Sunderland and then I decided to play a bit of a diamond v Leeds, I could have played Mo off the right instead of Hugo.”
On Salah’s reaction to being told he wasn’t going today: “(laughs) It was a short one.”
Alisson on Salah’s comments: “Of course we have the personal relationship with him…Ive been playing with Mo for so long. He’s a great guy, a great character. A legend, for Liverpool FC. Personally, (the comments) does not make me happy. But we do not have time to moan about any situation right now, we have to face the challenge in front of us.”