Mohamed Salah reveals the only Liverpool player’s exit which actually made him cry since 2017
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How much better would Liverpool have been if they’d hired an interim manager in January❓🔄 Credit: Sebastian Frej/James Holyoak/MB Media/Getty Images With the likes of Sadio Mane, Jordan Henderson, Fabinho, James Milner, Roberto Firmino, Joel Matip and plenty more leaving since, Liverpool fans have been saying an emotional goodbye to a star player on what has felt like a yearly basis.Last year came the turn of Trent Alexander-Arnold, and while it may have been decidedly mixed emotions for supporters saying goodbye to one of their own, Salah has admitted that the right-back leaving was the only one which brought him to tears.Salah cried when Alexander-Arnold left LiverpoolBy the time Alexander-Arnold left Liverpool as a two-time Premier League title winner, many fans had turned against him.The players were visibly still on the Scouser’s side, though, and after watching Alexander-Arnold pay tribute to him in a farewell video from Sky Sports, Salah has admitted that he was especially emotional.Photo by PAUL ELLIS/AFP via Getty ImagesREAD MORE: Mohamed Salah urges Liverpool fans to ‘do something special’ for Jordan Henderson on his Anfield farewell“He’s the only person I cried when he left the club,” the Egyptian smiled, cutting across some well wishes from Liverpool’s former No. 66.“I cried with his mum.
I was crying.”Alexander-Arnold pays tribute to SalahIt is easy to understand why Salah was so emotional to say farewell to Alexander-Arnold. The pair had built an incredibly strong bond down Liverpool’s right side over eight years playing together.Salah was there through virtually the whole of the academy graduate’s career in the first-team, and saw him develop from being a talented teenager into the best in the world in his position.
Who’s Liverpool’s best forward of the Premier League era? It’s been a little bit of a while since we’ve seen each other, and I just wanted to say that I miss you every day,” said the 27-year-old.