No concern over Mohamed Salah leaving Liverpool for the worst-ever Real Madrid or Barcelona sides – John Aldridge

I’m not involved in regards to the prospect of Mo Salah leaving after an interview he gave within the Spanish press.

Jurgen Klopp is true when he questioned why Salah would wish to depart Liverpool.

Would you wish to be part of Actual Madrid or Barcelona in the meanwhile?

They’ve each obtained their worst two groups of their modern-day historical past proper now.

Clearly I’ve performed in opposition to them each for Actual Sociedad they usually’re each completely incredible golf equipment, magnificent, nevertheless it’s the place the guts is and if his coronary heart is in Liverpool then he’s going nowhere.

Issues like that come out. We all know how stuff works. You would possibly say: ‘Effectively you’d by no means rule something out’ and it’s highlighted threefold.

That’s when folks put one and one collectively and get three.

He’s obtained a contract at Liverpool and is prime of the goalscoring charts.

Salah had a poor sport in opposition to West Bromwich Albion however he wasn’t alone in that respect.

As robust because it was to take, Liverpool didn’t do sufficient to defeat them however for me one participant may have made all of the distinction and he’s somebody we haven’t seen sufficient of up to now this season.

That sport was made for Thiago. It’s simply come per week too quickly for him.

If Thiago performs in that, we win the sport, completely – 100%.

It wasn’t to be although, we couldn’t unlock them.

Early on, Andy Robertson put three nice balls throughout the six-yard field and from a striker’s perspective they’re the sort of simple possibilities that one of many three entrance lads needs to be taking to make it 2-0 and sport over however we didn’t.

Their plan was at all times to make it a scruffy sport, win the second balls, which they did within the second half and hit us on the break they usually did it effectively.

On the subject of the gamers we did have on the pitch I believe Curtis Jones has obtained to precise himself a bit extra within the remaining third.

He’s been very disciplined and has been nice however I’d similar to to see him do what I do know he can in these ahead positions.

We all know that he’s able to scoring particular objectives, he’s going to be a star. The lad has obtained a lot in his locker.

When groups come and play like that, which we’ve seen many, many instances, you want an early aim and we obtained it however we simply withered that benefit away.

It may be swings and roundabouts should you get that early aim although as it’s also possible to get a bit blasé.

Typically you possibly can sit on the lead and we didn’t get out of second gear or transfer the ball quick sufficient like we usually do and whipped in shortly.

Hopefully it gained’t hurt us come the top of the season as a result of everyone seems to be dropping factors in the meanwhile.

We’ve obtained to try to bounce again in opposition to Newcastle United and keep forward of the pack as this was a giant alternative missed.

Allardyce began with an anti-football strategy however his aspect deserves credit score

As soon as once more Sam Allardyce has come away from Anfield with a outcome and as poor as we have been going ahead, I believed that his West Bromwich Albion aspect have been good defensively.

He’s set his stall out, didn’t panic at 1-0 and issues went their approach. Our remaining ball wasn’t nice and we performed into their palms in some ways.

As a lot because it hurts – the way in which they performed within the first half was anti-football – you’ve obtained to provide them credit score.

In the long run, they take a look at the top like they may have even been the extra seemingly aspect to win it.

Earlier than that I used to be saying ‘If these wish to do this once they’re 1-0 down, get one of many centre-halves to sit down on the ball on the midway line and see what they do.’

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That might be attention-grabbing once they’re lining up 6-4-0.

We didn’t ask too many questions of them.

He does what he does. When folks press the panic button as a result of they wish to keep up within the Premier League, and we’re speaking a few distinction of about £150million a 12 months.

However we shouldn’t be speaking about Sam Allardyce, we needs to be speaking about Liverpool and he’s solely getting talked about right here due to our failure to interrupt certainly one of his groups down.

We obtained dragged all the way down to their degree and have become sloppy, particularly within the second half.

It was inevitable what was going to occur, you might odor it.

With half an hour to go I mentioned ‘It stinks this.’ I’ve seen it too many instances, they’re going to get an opportunity, one thing goes to occur and you’ll’t say that they didn’t deserve it.

When Joel Matip went off we regarded like we misplaced a little bit of composure and subsequently that led to their nook however to concede a aim in that approach is tough to abdomen once we’d had a lot of the possession and the play.

Have a look at the stats although. Their goalie has solely needed to make one save and that’s not us, that’s not Liverpool.

All of the buses got here at one time in opposition to Crystal Palace. We would have liked to avoid wasting of these objectives for this final sport.

• Lastly, I’d similar to to say that I hope all of the ECHO’s readers had an ideal Christmas and I want them a Completely satisfied New Yr – issues can solely get higher!