Arne Slot won’t speak about Mo Salah during AFCON – ‘No distractions from me’

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Arne Slot insists he does not want to distract Mohamed Salah during his time at the Africa Cup of Nations with any talks over his situation at Liverpool. Salah has now joined up with the Egypt squad for the mid-season AFCON and will miss at least three games for Liverpool including Saturday’s trip to Tottenham.

“Now he’s at the AFCON, playing big games for himself and also for his country, so I think it’s fair to them that all the focus is, for him, over there. “There should not be any distractions from me saying anything about his time here at Liverpool, because as I said, we’ve moved on after the Leeds interview and he played against Brighton.

“Now he’s there, so it’s fair for the country and for him and also for us to talk, for us, about Tottenham and other games, and for them to be fully focused on their tournament.” Salah will kick off Egypt’s group stage with a clash with Zimbabwe on Monday night, before meetings with South Africa (Dec 26) and Angola (Dec 29) later on in Group B. Egypt’s AFCON fixtures on Channel 4 Egypt vs.