Slot and Salah set for talks today with future in balance

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Please use Chrome browser for a more accessible video player Mo Salah's bombshell interview after Liverpool's draw with Leeds The club subsequently decided to drop him from the travelling squad which won 1-0 at Inter Milan on Tuesday, the same day Salah posted a photograph on Instagram of himself training alone at the training ground gym.When asked on Friday whether Salah had played his final game for the club, Slot said: "I will have a conversation with Mo this morning. Slot: I have no reason to not want Salah to staySlot was quizzed on his personal desire about Salah's future at Anfield and the head coach also clarified the decision-making process behind omitting Salah from Tuesday's win in Milan, which was made jointly between himself and the club.He said: "[Who decides] if he's in the squad, yes or no?

We've decided as a club, I was part of that decision not to take Mo to Inter Milan."I'm always in conversation [with the Liverpool board], but when it comes to the decision making of the squad or the line-up that is always left to me."That's not to say I don't talk to Richard [Hughes]. This club has won a lot of games with him."Merse: Liverpool owe trophy debt to Salah Please use Chrome browser for a more accessible video player Paul Merson sides with Mohamed Salah after his explosive interview - in which he took aim at Arne Slot - led to him being left out of Liverpool's squad for the win over Inter Milan.

Paul Merson has defended Mohamed Salah following his claims that Liverpool have "thrown him under the bus", suggesting the club's trophy cabinet would be a lot emptier without the Egyptian."I'm on Mo Salah's side. I think he's gotten too much stick."Maybe he shouldn't have done what he did, but he's a human being.