Arne Slot makes Man City point in Mohamed Salah Liverpool farewell message
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Liverpool FC NewsFeaturesArne SlotMohamed Salah will leave Liverpool at the end of the season and Arne Slot spoke about the Egyptian superstar ahead of this weekend's FA Cup trip to Manchester CityArne Slot spoke about Mohamed Salah after the announcement of his impending departure(Image: Getty Images)Arne Slot touched on Mohamed Salah's excellent record against Manchester City as he addressed the Egyptian's impending departure from Liverpool.Salah announced last week that he will leave Liverpool at the end of the season, bringing the curtain down on one of English soccer's great careers..The Egyptian has won two Premier Leagues and a Champions League, as well as several domestic cups since moving to Liverpool in 2017.One of the clubs that has been on the wrong end of Salah's brilliance plenty of times is Manchester City, which Liverpool faces in the FA Cup this weekend. Salah has scored 13 times in all competitions against Manchester City, with Manchester United and Tottenham the only other clubs to have shipped more goals from the Egyptian.READ MORE: Liverpool striker Alexander Isak set to return to team training tomorrowREAD MORE: Drastic Mohamed Salah farewell plan given green light by Arne Slot - 'completely fine'Ahead of Liverpool's trip to City, Slot spoke about Salah's brilliance: "I've mainly seen this as a fan, so watching football, seeing him playing at Liverpool, doing all these special things that he's done for this club."Of course, in the fixtures against [Manchester] City but in all the other fixtures as well.
He broke record after record after record."Slot recalled how – after watching Salah's success from afar during the player's first seven years at Anfield – the player continued to impress him when he took the Liverpool job in 2024."Then I started working with him and already the first day I was impressed by his professionalism because as with any season, it starts with a test that shows how much they did in the off-season and he beat all of them," Slot said."He was the fittest player that came back, and I think that's the ideal situation that you want as a manager: that your star player comes back as fit as he did.Slot was impressed by Salah from day one(Image: Getty Images)"He had nothing to prove, but for himself he had a lot to prove because Mo always thinks he has to prove something every three days. That hunger never stops and that is something that I find most special about him."So many good players around the world [and] he's definitely one of them in the last 10 years, that everybody talks about being one of the best there is and was in the last 10 years."To show that hunger every three days, that professionalism, that commitment to the club, to the team, to wanting to score again, always wanting to play – when you take him out three minutes before the end, he's like, 'Maybe I could have scored one extra!' – that is what stands out for me."Everything he's done for the club, but the moment I started working with him I knew it after one day, let alone after a few weeks or months, that it isn't a coincidence that he's been so influential in the last 10 years in football."Choose Liverpool.com as a 'Preferred Source' on Google News for quick access to the news you value.Arne SlotMohamed SalahLiverpool FC