Arne Slot opens up on Mohamed Salah Liverpool exit and points to 'new cycle'

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The Liverpool manager has been speaking about the pending departure of Liverpool legend Mohamed SalahArne Slot believes this summer represents the start of "a new cycle" at Liverpool as he opened up on the fallout with Mohamed Salah that accelerated the forward's departure.Salah announced in the March international break that this would be his final campaign on Merseyside and he leaves after nine years as the third-highest goalscorer of all time, with 257 goals to date, behind only Ian Rush and Roger Hunt.Two-time Premier League winner Salah claimed in early December that he had been "thrown under the bus" by the club as Slot attempted to arrest a slump that had seen the champions lose nine of 12 games between September and November by dropping him for three successive games.READ MORE: Alexander-Arnold makes bold Liverpool confession ahead of Mo Salah exit - 'I've always said'READ MORE: Mohamed Salah shares Liverpool dressing room concern once he leaves - 'I'm very being honest'With vice captain Andy Robertson also walking away as a free agent at the end of the month, Slot admits a new era is fast approaching, explaining how the club have invested in youth in an attempt to replicate the golden period of recent years, when the Reds won every top-level trophy available."Of course, the most meaningful [memories] are the ones with the most emotions, so the simple one for me to say is when we won the league and all the goals [Salah] scored over there," Slot told Men In Blazers."But even this season has been meaningful for me. So it is the good and the bad times that live in your head and he has been an unbelievable player for me."Because he has been a big part of why we won the league last season and now he is leaving, like unfortunately so many others have already left who have done so many great things for this club."You almost start to forget that a year ago we lost Trent Alexander-Arnold, to Real Madrid.

All the latest news and analysis from Anfield on the Liverpool Echo's dedicated LFC Facebook page"As time goes by these players get older and what we need to do as a club is make sure that we create that kind of new cycle again. And players like Trent, 21 or 22."And we have signed players who are of the ages of 21 or 22 and we are trying to create a cycle that was created back then by Jurgen Klopp and other people responsible 10 years ago and that took a bit of time before they went on to be successful."On what is expected to be another summer of transition at Liverpool, Slot added: "Mo Salah leaving - there can never be a bigger change than that.

He has been a player who for eight or nine years has been so successful at this club. But to replace a player that almost every season scored, I don't exactly know, I think every season about 25 goals or more, I think that is a legacy that you don't see a lot."So that will always be the biggest change and we have to make sure we will never be able to replace him with that amount of goals from one player but the good news is that Alexander Isak, who we already bought last season, hasn't been able to play a lot at his best, at his peak and he will be next season."So we have to look not too much at one player [for goals], we have to spread it around the whole team to replace players like Mo but also players like Robertson."