There is an interesting way to look at the Mohamed Salah situation that not many people are talking about yet. If Salah has decided to leave Liverpool, could that actually suggest that Arne Slot is going to be the manager next season?
Because if you think about it logically, if Salah believed Slot was going to leave in the summer, would he really decide to leave the club at the same time? Most players would probably wait and see who the new manager is, what the plans are, and whether their role in the team might change.
But if Salah already believes that Slot is staying, and that the situation between them is not going to change, then his decision to leave makes a lot more sense. If the relationship between a player and a manager is broken, and the manager is staying, then usually the player is the one who leaves.
Football clubs almost always back the manager if they believe in the long-term project. And if the club have already decided that Slot is their man for the future, then Salah may have realised that his time at Liverpool was coming to an end.
This is why Salah leaving might actually tell us more about the manager situation than people think. Transfers and contract decisions often happen because players already know what the future plans are behind the scenes.
So the big question becomes this: did Salah leave because he wanted a new challenge, or did he leave because he knew the club were backing Slot and the situation was not going to change?
If it is the second reason, then Salah leaving might be one of the biggest clues yet about who will be Liverpool manager next season.
Jamie (The Kopite View)
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