Mo Salah, Misquotes And A Broken Relationship

The whole reaction to Mo Salah’s statement feels skewed, and a lot of it starts with people not really listening to what he actually said. From there, it has snowballed into something that now looks very hard to row back from for both him and the club.

What Salah Really Meant By “Position”

For me, the key thing that’s been twisted is that Mo never said he didn’t need to fight for his place in the Liverpool team. He said he didn’t need to fight for his position, and there is a difference there if you’re willing to see it.

Place sounds like he thinks he’s untouchable in the starting XI. Position can easily be read as his standing in the squad: a senior player, a leader, someone who has carried the team for years and should be treated with a certain level of respect. That’s how I heard it, and I think that’s what he was getting at rather than saying he’s above competition on the pitch.

You can disagree with his choice of words, but the way it has been clipped and spun makes him look a lot more arrogant than he probably intended.

Did The Club Try To Push Salah Out?

It really does feel like the club wanted rid of Mo and were happy to move behind the scenes without him fully in the loop. The sense is that approaches were made, interest was tested, and the groundwork was quietly laid in the background.

That is why I still don’t buy that his spell on the bench was purely about football reasons or some sudden collapse in form. It looked and felt like a power play: create a narrative that he’s now part of the problem, that the team’s dip is on him, and use that as justification for an exit.

And now you hear people pointing at a small unbeaten run since he was dropped, as if that proves everything, even though the performances themselves haven’t exactly been convincing. Results on paper and what your eyes tell you can be two totally different things. In that context, you can understand why Salah would feel angry with how it’s been handled.

Neither Side Comes Out Looking Great

I don’t think the club are squeaky clean here at all. The way Mo seems to have been treated just doesn’t sit right. If the same kind of manoeuvring had been done around a Gerrard or a Dalglish in their time, you suspect a lot more supporters would be up in arms about it.

At the same time, Salah putting that statement out was, in my view, the wrong move. It may have been honest, it may have come from a place of frustration, but it only escalated things and dragged everything further into the public eye. Once you cross that line, it’s very hard to walk it back.

And that’s the real shame. Because now it feels like a bridge has been burned. I struggle to see a clear way back for him into the team in a normal, healthy way after all this. Maybe football has a way of surprising you, but right now the relationship between Salah and the club looks badly damaged, and it didn’t need to get this far.

Written by Dracred: 13 December 2025