Mohamed Salah will go away, but the issue will not. Salah returned to the Liverpool side as a substitute against Brighton. Arne Slot may have tried to consign the issue of his remarkable interview at Leeds to the past, but he accepted others will not. “For me, it has settled down, but if the outside world wants to keep talking about it, that’s fine with me,” said the Liverpool head coach. He held talks with Salah on Friday; after being part of the decision to omit him from the squad that went to Italy for the Champions League win over Inter, he then restored him to contention on Saturday.
As Salah heads off to the Africa Cup of Nations, there are likely to be further conversations between the Egyptian’s representatives and the club during the next month. Yet if Slot suggested that the player and manager are reconciled, questions remain unanswered.
