Join the Miguel Delaney Inside Football Join the Miguel Delaney Inside newsletter to get exclusive access and unparalleled insight. Football Join the Miguel Delaney Inside newsletter Football newsletterNo more Mr Nice Guy, perhaps. Arne slot can be friendly and the Dutchman believes that he has inner toughness. The Liverpool manager has shown that in the most difficult of times, even though he did so in his mild manner. “Usually I’m calm, I’m polite but it doesn’t mean I’m weak so if a player has these comments about so many things, then it’s about me and the club to react,” He said. “We reacted in way you can see: he’s not here.”The player in question, of course, is Mohamed Salah: indisputably one of the greatest in Liverpool’s history, but a man Slot first dropped from the team and then, after Salah’s explosive interview on Saturday, removed him from first-team contention. Salah claimed that Liverpool had thrown him under the bus. Slot responded to this by refusing to take him on the flight. Liverpool were without their three wingers in Milan, as Federico Chiesa was ill and Cody Gakpo was injured. Slot has said he doesn’t feel that his authority was undermined. (Peter Byrne/PA Wire). Slot chose not to. Slot told me that Tuesday’s conversation was about the future. “a short one”. He elaborated: “We have let him know that he is not travelling with us. That was the only communication from us to him. Of course, before Saturday the two of us have spoken a lot, sometimes longer, sometimes shorter.” After their relationship broke down, brevity was all that was needed. The Egyptian has claimed he doesn’t have a relationship anymore with his manager. Slot’s perspective was different. “That is not the way I feel, but he has the right to feel how he feels things,” He said. “I haven’t felt that at all until Saturday evening for sure.”Slot’s explanation for the situation was tactical, not personal. He dropped Salah who believed that his previous deeds deserved to be selected now. “We looked very vulnerable, in my opinion, with all the things I’ve tried against [Nottingham] Forest and PSV [Eindhoven], and I decided to play with an extra midfielder,” He said. Slot, in agreement with Liverpool’s hierarchy, made a decision to cut the wingers.
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