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Arne Slot is building something 'totally different' but I wouldn't like to play with Mohamed Salah

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He knew that would all come."He cemented a structure at the back that basically sustained them up until not so long ago and it's done really well over the years that he was there. Then he could go onto the forwards and really start building that heavy metal football."With Arne Slot, he’s gone with the forward line first, and it's been a little bit more difficult at times because you want Florian Wirtz to be getting on the ball all the time.



You want Mohamed Salah to be scoring all the goals like he did before."Liverpool still need someone to emulate what we had with Sadio Mane and Luis Diaz and you probably want someone up front who’s going to give you sort of the balance that Roberto Firmino brought having two goalscorers either side of him."Slot is building something totally different and it's never going to look the same but now Liverpool have got Hugo Ekitike up front and I think he's done fantastic."FOLLOW OUR LIVERPOOL FC FACEBOOK PAGE! All the latest news and analysis from Anfield on the Liverpool Echo's dedicated LFC Facebook pageHeskey scored 60 goals in 223 appearances for the Reds between 2000 and 2004, during which time he formed a successful partnership with Michael Owen for club and country and would often use his physical advantages to get on the end of crosses from wide players.Asked whether he would like to play with a winger such as Salah, he added: "I remember someone asking me a few years back, would you have liked to play with Mohamed Salah?

I said probably not."I'd probably prefer to play with Trent (Alexander-Arnold) because I know he's going to cross the ball for me. Mo's not going to cross.