Mohamed Salah makes Liverpool hero unhappy after Jurgen Klopp ‘statement’

Phil Thompson admitted he ‘didn’t like’ Mohamed Salah’s response to being substituted by Jurgen Klopp in Liverpool’s 1-0 defeat to Chelsea.

Thompson thought it was a ‘assertion’ transfer from the Liverpool supervisor to withdraw the membership’s high scorer from the fray after they have been chasing a purpose.

Diogo Jota got here on to exchange the Egypt worldwide simply after the hour mark however couldn’t discover the again of the web as Thomas Tuchel’s Chelsea stored a clear sheet and climbed into the top-four.

Salah was clearly sad at being withdrawn from the motion and shook his head whereas sat on the Liverpool bench.

That response didn’t go down nicely with Thompson, who thinks Salah ought to have stored his feelings in test earlier than talking to his supervisor in non-public.

‘Taking Mo Salah off was an enormous assertion,’ Thompson informed Paddy Power.

‘Lots of them weren’t nice, Sadio Mane has been having a torrid time, Bobby Firmino has been poor for a while, however to take off your main goalscorer you go: “Wow. That was an enormous assertion”.

‘You may see Mo’s response too, which I don’t like. I’d moderately they only got here off and spoke quietly to the supervisor moderately than reacting like that.

‘Doing gestures in entrance of the cameras doesn’t assist anybody. I’ve to say the choice to take him off was very shocking, although.’

Klopp defined that he took Salah off as a result of he felt he wasn’t recent, however insists he has no issues with gamers being sad at being substituted.

‘I’m comfortable when the boys look disenchanted, that’s not an issue,’ Klopp stated.

‘I didn’t see it from Mo. The explanation for the sub was I may have modified different gamers as nicely however the cause was he regarded like he felt the depth and I didn’t wish to danger him. That’s all.

‘It’s actually uncommon and normally Mo appears to be like surprisingly recent till the top. I assumed he didn’t look recent any extra. The final two or three years don’t have anything to do with that.’

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