Last season, Mo Salah finished as the “King of Anfield” and the “King of Premier League”, the league’s highest scoring player. His contract was extended with Liverpool, the Egyptian negotiated a monster salary of £400,000 a week. Calm descended at Anfield, now the most important player was on for the back-to-back title in the Premier League. This was the plan, now we get a “Marcus Rashford déjà vu” at Anfield.
Rashford ended the 2022/23 season as Manchester United’s top scorer, United management rewarded the star with an extension and a sharp pay rise to around £325,000 in weekly wages. Then came the fall the next season. This continued, with Rashford nowhere close to matching the top scorer season. Then came bench wear, extra-sporting noise and then a loan to Aston Villa, then Barcelona.
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That was the end of the story of Manchester United’s biggest star. At Anfield, Salah is only now a shadow of himself (along with the rest of the Liverpool team), with 4 poor goals in 1120 minutes. Against West Ham, it was an annoyed Salah who was on the bench for the entire game, the replay came against Sunderland.
Here, the £400,000-a-week player conceded in the second half, but was unable to save Liverpool from a 1-1 draw and new “lost points”.
After the game, Slot was again asked about the benching of the player who last season scored Slot to the Premier League title in his debut season.
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“We haven’t had a long conversation. We talked a lot after the Frankfurt game, and now not so much. He reacts the way you want, a top professional. He trains very well and is positive towards his teammates. He’s an example when he’s playing, and now he’s an example of how to behave when you’re not playing,” the Liverpool manager said.
Now we don’t talk much.
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Doesn’t sound like Mo Salah is going to accept this for very long. For Liverpool, it is also out of the question not to have their £400,000 investment a week at the match venue, producing.
As I said, we get a “Rashford déjà vu”.
