LEEDS, ENGLAND - DECEMBER 06: (THE SUN OUT, THE SUN ON SUNDAY OUT) Mohamed Salah of Liverpool looks dejected as he walks off the pitch after the final whistle alongside Liverpool Manager, Arne Slot following his team's draw in the Premier League match between Leeds United and Liverpool at Elland Road on December 06, 2025 in Leeds, England. (Photo by Liverpool FC/Liverpool FC via Getty Images)
Mo Salah claimed that he has 'no relationship' with Arne Slot
Arne Slot has revealed that he'll hold showdown talks with to determine whether he's played his last game for . Salah, 33, hinted that Saturday's game at home to Brighton could be during an explosive interview last weekend.
The Egyptian revealed that he'd invited his mum to Anfield so that she could witness his potential farewell. Next week, Salah will jet off to the and won't return until January. By then, the will've opened.
Salah's comments, accusing throwing him 'under the bus', prompted Slot to ahead of Tuesday's crucial clash with . The Reds at San Siro in a glimpse of life without their No.11.
Previewing the game at Liverpool's AXA Training Complex in Kirkby, Salah's future was the main talking point. "I will have a conversation with him this morning and the outcome of that conversation will determine how it looks tomorrow," Slot said.
"What I need is a conversation with him and the next time I speak about Mo should be with him and not in here. There's not much more I can say. I speak to him today and the outcome determines how things will look tomorrow."
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Asked if it was Salah's lack of defensive output that first resulted in him dropping to the bench, the Liverpool manager replied: "You can try in multiple ways but I just said the next time I speak about him should be with him. I think there's been a lot of conversations since the last week between his reps and ours."
After he was benched for the third game running at last Saturday, Salah spoke to reporters in the mixed zone and vented his frustration. "I can't believe... I'm sitting on the bench for 90 minutes," the captain bemoaned. The third time on the bench, I think for the first time in my career.
"I'm very, very disappointed. I have done so much for this club down the years and especially last season. Now I'm sitting on the bench and I don't know why.
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"It seems like the club has thrown me under the bus. That is how I am feeling. I think it is very clear that someone wanted me to get all of the blame."
Having refused to specify who that person was, Salah added: "I said many times before that I had a good relationship with the manager and all of a sudden, we don't have any relationship. I don't know why, but it seems to me, how I see it, that someone doesn't want me in the club."
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