The parting shot was supposed to come from Mohamed Salah’s left foot, not his Twitter account. The departing great’s critique of Liverpool’s lamentable defeat at Aston Villa on Friday and increasingly unsatisfactory season may have been intended to sound as well-meaning, but could be construed as self-serving. Much of Salah’s analysis rang true but the fact he said it, and now, felt like an attack on Arne Slot. The deployment of a couple of phrases indelibly associated with Jurgen Klopp further the impression it was aimed at Slot.
“I have witnessed this club go from doubters to believers, and from believers to champions,” Salah wrote. “It took hard work and I always did everything I could to help the club get there. Nothing makes me prouder than that.
