Mohamed Salah criticises ‘crumbling’ Liverpool’s season and demands return to ‘heavy metal’ football

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Mohamed Salah has launched another withering critique on Liverpool, the club he is set to depart after next weekend.In Friday’s 4-2 defeat at Aston Villa, Salah came on as a late substitution, as the result cast into doubt fifth-placed Liverpool’s participation in next season’s Champions League. “I have witnessed this club go from doubters to believers, and from believers to champions,” began Salah’s post.

“It took hard work and I always did everything I could to help the club get there. The Egyptian, scorer of 257 Liverpool goals, 191 in the Premier League, announced his departure in March, ripping up what had been a two-year extension signed last May.Salah signed off with comments that again appear aimed at Slot, and the club hierarchy of the sporting director Richard Hughes and the chief executive of football, Michael Edwards: “Winning some games here and there is not what Liverpool should be about.

Liverpool will always be a club that means a great deal to me and to my family.“I want to see it succeed for long after I have moved on. As I’ve always said, qualifying to next season’s Champions League is the bare minimum and I will do everything I can to make that happen.”Following Friday’s defeat, Slot, having been barracked by away fans, said: “I can understand that, at this moment in time, [the fans] don’t have a lot of confidence or a lot of feeling that things can be much better next season but I think then they are underestimating what a window can do, what a new start can do.”The wide expectation has been that Liverpool’s executives will stick with Slot.