Overview
- Liverpool excluded Mohamed Salah from the travelling squad for the 1-0 win at Inter Milan, as Arne Slot declined to say if the forward has played his last game and suggested any first step back may need to come from the player.
- Jamie Carragher, who had called Salah’s interview a “disgrace,” later apologized on live television for upsetting the Liverpool forward.
- Steven Gerrard said Salah was wrong to claim the club had thrown him “under the bus” and urged him to step back and resolve the rift with Slot.
- Captain Virgil van Dijk said the situation is being handled internally and noted Salah’s imminent Africa Cup of Nations duty.
- Saudi interest has re-emerged, with Sky Sports reporting no formal approach to Liverpool and AFP citing an unnamed PIF source saying it would do “whatever it can,” while separate reports indicate Salah wants the fallout settled swiftly.