
For the third time under Arne Slot, Mohamed Salah spent a full 90 minutes sat on the bench in Wednesday’s 2–0 defeat to Paris Saint-Germain.
The sight of Liverpool’s talisman, one of the greatest players in Premier League history, going unused on the sidelines in such a big game was an obvious surprise. Slot may have argued he was simply preserving Salah’s energy, but that has done little to quell the suspicions of tensions behind the scenes.