Arne Slot speaks out on Mohamed Salah Liverpool future after being left 'surprised' by outburst

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I'm important to this situation as I pick the team but my focus is on the team and not me."He has every right to feel what he feels, but if he has the right to share it with the media then we have to react with it."Slot added: "Can I understand his comments? That’s why it’s difficult for me and why he says it and who he’s referring to."(I haven't had that conversation with him), nope.

Usually I’m calm, I’m polite but it doesn’t mean I’m weak so if a player has these commands about so many things, then it’s about me and the club to react. I didn't speak to him (at length) after Leeds."Of Salah claiming he no longer has a relationship with the manager, Slot added: "That is not the way I feel, but he has the right to feel how he feels things.

I haven’t felt that at all until Saturday evening for sure."When I don’t play someone usually players don’t like the manager that much but he was really respectful to the staff and manager, his team-mates and he trained very hard so it was a surprise to me when I heard the comments that he gave."But it is not the first or last time a player who doesn’t play says something similar to what he did. But my reaction to that is clear and that’s why he is not here tonight."He was on the training ground and I told him he would not travel.