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Topics: Mohamed Salah, Arne Slot, Jurgen Klopp, Football, Premier League, Liverpool, Champions League
Luke Davies
Topics: Mohamed Salah, Arne Slot, Jurgen Klopp, Football, Premier League, Liverpool, Champions League
Jürgen Klopp has already explained how he’d deal with Mohamed Salah after the Egyptian’s latest action on social media left some supporters concerned.
Salah was forced to watch from the bench during Liverpool’s 5-1 win away at Eintracht Frankfurt in the Champions League league phase on Wednesday evening until he was eventually introduced by Arne Slot with 16 minutes to play.
Florian Wirtz registered his first two assists since joining the Reds, while goals from Hugo Ekitike, Virgil van Dijk, Ibrahima Konate, Cody Gakpo and Dominik Szoboszlai cancelled out Frankfurt’s opener, which came via former Leeds United full-back Rasmus Kristensen 26 minutes in.
On an otherwise positive night for the Reds, the two negatives were Alexander Isak’s half-time withdrawal due to a groin injury and Salah’s post-match social media activity.
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Following Liverpool’s victory in Germany, fans noticed that Salah changed his X banner and profile photograph, with some suggesting this was a reaction to him receiving widespread criticism from supporters.
Salah has struggled to find form this term, having registered just three goals and assists in 12 appearances during the 2025/26 campaign.
Ahead of last night’s match, head coach Slot admitted that it was a difficult decision to drop Salah without going into detail about the call.
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And the Salah dilemma could prove to be a delicate topic in the coming weeks as Slot looks to put Liverpool’s recent poor run behind him.
It is unclear if Slot will comment on Salah’s social media activity or mention it in private, but he may call on advice from his predecessor Klopp, who recently discussed players’ use of social media platforms during a podcast appearance on the Diary of a CEO.
When asked if he’d ever had issues with players using the platforms negatively, Klopp said: "We had a situation that a player texted or posted something at night and deleted it, but I still became aware of it.
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"So, not that I read it, but people told me, 'Oh, last night this and that happened.' 'When?' 'Three o'clock.'
"What I do in these situations, even deleted, I go in the dressing room, say 'last night, this and this happened, got deleted, I know what's there, but maybe you want to tell everybody."
The German, who is currently without a managerial role, then explained how situations like the negative use of social media used to result in him asking players to explain themselves in front of the squad.
Klopp then added that the impact of the punishment resulted in “nobody” doing it again, without naming an individual player.