Arne Slot faced the press on Monday night, ahead of Tuesday’s Champions League clash with Inter Milan, but there was only one subject we all wanted to get his reaction to.
When asked if he thought that Mo Salah had been referring to him when saying he was being ‘thrown under the bus’ at Liverpool, Slot was quick to respond.
“The only one who can answer that question is Mo himself, so I can guess,” he said. “But I don’t think that’s the right thing to do in this moment of time. So, it’s hard for me to tell who he means in that situation, to be honest.
We’ve let him know that he’s not travelling with us. So that was the only communication that’s been there from us to him. Of course, before Saturday, the two of us have spoken a lot. Sometimes longer, sometimes shorter.”
When asked if he agreed with Salah about their relationship having broken down, Slot added: “No, that’s not the way I feel. But, he has the right to feel, how he feels things. I haven’t felt that at all till Saturday evening for sure, because I think, when I didn’t play him anymore usually players don’t like the manager then that much, but, he was very respectful to my staff members, to his teammates.
“And he trained really hard. So, to an extent, it was a surprise for me that, when I, when I heard after the game that he gave the comments, he gave, but as I said, it’s not the first and not the last time that when a player doesn’t play he…
“I’m not sure if he was emotional or not, but that he says something and that, something similar to it was he did. But, I think our, my reaction to that is also clear, and that’s, that he’s not here with us tonight.”
