Arne Slot will agree with Mo Salah’s early Liverpool tweet

The 2025/26 season held a lot in the best way of promise for Arne Slot’s reigning Premier League champions.

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Sure, key fixtures within the aspect – the likes of Trent Alexander-Arnold and Luis Diaz – had known as time on their Anfield stays.

However the membership had spent huge in what was perceived, on the time, as an try to take care of momentum. We broke a British switch file to signal Europe’s largest younger expertise in Florian Wirtz (£116.5m) from Bayer Leverkusen. A file damaged but once more in the identical window with the £125m signing of Newcastle’s Alexander Isak.

But, with the season having drawn to a detailed, we discover ourselves trying wistfully again to the boys who left, and Mo Salah’s prophetic tweet.

Mo Salah knew what Liverpool can be lacking

Again in September, a Liverpool account on X (previously Twitter) had launched an ill-advised tweet suggesting that the signings of Wirtz and Isak have been ‘upgrades’ on departed stars Luis Diaz and Darwin Nunez.

A declare that evidently didn’t go down properly with our legendary No.11, who shared the next tweet in response.

How about we rejoice the good signings with out disrespecting the PL champions? https://t.co/lRug6oFYCt

— Mohamed Salah (@Mo Salah) September 3, 2025

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To be fully truthful, after all, our former No.9 was not with out his critics, usually being accused of inconsistent performances contained in the field.

Diaz, nevertheless, had accomplished the 2024/25 season with a greater than respectable haul of 25 purpose contributions in 50 video games (throughout all competitions), having loved arguably his greatest marketing campaign in a Liverpool shirt.

Quick ahead a yr, with us exhibiting restricted chunk, width, and urgent aggression, it’s laborious to not conclude that we miss these gamers.

Arne Slot should agree with Salah

There have, after all, been mitigating elements for this Liverpool squad to take care of this time period, and none extra critical than the tragic passing of Diogo Jota final yr.

Nevertheless, the numbers would absolutely at the very least point out that our relative collapse in 2025/26 is at the very least partly right down to recruitment (and tactical directions) that didn’t hit the mark.

2024/25 season
2025/26 season

86 targets scored
63 targets scored

41 targets conceded
53 targets conceded

83.46 xG
61.35 xG

230 pictures on the right track contained in the field
183 pictures on the right track contained in the field

1,425 touches contained in the opposition field
1,278 touches contained in the opposition field

* Liverpool’s stats throughout two seasons underneath Arne Slot (Premier League)

An absence of correct tempo and directness from Liverpool’s major wingers (Cody Gakpo particularly) hasn’t helped us this time period. To not point out that the Egyptian King has usually discovered himself remoted and a part of a front-three setup that’s not constructed to benefit from his goalscoring skills.

Say what you’ll about Nunez, however the Uruguayan did a substantial amount of work on and off the ball to offer Mo Salah a platform.

On that foundation, we must always really feel some sympathy for Arne Slot (separate to his tactical errors), provided that he was left with a ahead line that couldn’t press or be as direct because the one he inherited from Jurgen Klopp.

Who’s accountable at Liverpool?

However questions additionally should be requested as to why the Dutchman wasn’t given the suitable instruments in the summertime.

Did our head coach imagine he had every thing he wanted? Did he push laborious sufficient for extensive signings? Or ought to we place the total weight of blame on the shoulders of Richard Hughes and Co?

With the advantage of hindsight, it appears to be like like our 33-year-old winger was quite on the cash together with his feedback final September.

And we quite suspect that Arne Slot shall be in vigorous settlement.

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