'Calculated' Salah has 'sensed an opportunity and taken it'

Not for the first time this season, Mohamed Salah seems to have taken a thinly veiled dig at the manager. I think it's pretty clear to everyone, at least from the outside, that his relationship with Arne Slot is at rock bottom.

It just leaves an unsavoury taste in everyone's mouth heading into the final week of the season.

Here we have a Liverpool legend who is arguably in the top 10 players to have ever played for the club. To go out in this manner is unfortunate really. You can't apportion blame when we don't know the full story and why Salah feels the way he does.

It will now be interesting to see in that final game of the season at Anfield, his farewell to the supporters and the City, how Slot reacts in terms of team selection and how the fans react to a legend going out in unsavoury fashion.

You just wonder if the Liverpool fans will have taken too kindly to it.

It is calculated because Salah will know Slot is not the flavour of the month at the moment with large sections of the Liverpool supporter base. A lot of fans will believe Slot should not be manager heading into next season.

On the back of that, Salah has probably sensed an opportunity to apply even more pressure on a guy who he has effectively fallen out with. He's sensed that opportunity and I think he's taken it.

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