Arne Slot breaks silence after Mohamed Salah’s bombshell Liverpool interview

Arne Slot has broken his silence after Mohamed Salah’s bombshell interview on Saturday evening – admitting he would never close the door on a player.

Salah, 33, pulled no punches in the mixed zone at Elland Road as he said it “seems like the club has thrown me under the bus” and “it is very clear that someone wanted me to get all of the blame”.

He 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.”

Salah has since been left out of Liverpool’s squad for their Champions League trip to Italy for their clash with Inter Milan on Tuesday evening.

And speaking ahead of the game, Slot spoke about the situation: “The only one who can answer that is Mo himself. I can guess but that is not the right thing to do at this moment. It is hard for me to tell.”

He added: “We let him know that he is not travelling. That was the only communication from us to him.

“Before Saturday, the two of us have spoken a lot. Sometimes longer and sometimes shorter. It is not the way I feel but he has the right to feel how he feels things. I have not felt that at all until Saturday evening.

“When I don’t play him anymore, usually players don’t like the manager then that much but he was always respectful to staff members and teammates. He trained very hard. It was a surprise to me that he gave the comments he gave.

“It is not the first and not the last when a player doesn’t play that he says something similar to what he did. My reaction to that is clear, that is that he is not here.

“We are sitting here on an evening before a big game and there is only 36 hours between the moment we conceded three to Leeds.

“I have tried to prepare my team in the best possible way. The most thoughts I have had are about tomorrow. After tomorrow, we will look at the situation again.”

However, Slot didn’t want to shut the door on Salah: “I am a firm believer that there is always a possibility to return for a player. I can leave it with that.”

Liverpool are currently 13th in the Champions League table, with three wins and two losses.