Salah will be welcomed back at Liverpool after AFCON, says Slot

Unsettled guardant Mohamed Salah is acceptable to instrumentality to Liverpool connected Sunday, erstwhile his AFCON work with Egypt comes to an end.

Liverpool manager Arne Slot said helium would invited Mohamed Salah backmost astatine the Premier League champions adjacent if helium had 15 attackers, arsenic the Egypt guardant nears a instrumentality from the Africa Cup of Nations (AFCON).

Salah is acceptable to play successful Egypt’s third-place playoff lucifer against Nigeria successful Morocco connected Saturday, aft the Pharaohs lost their AFCON semifinal against Senegal.

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His impending instrumentality has been a large talking constituent aft helium took purpose astatine the nine successful an explosive interrogation successful aboriginal December.

Salah accused Liverpool of throwing him “under the bus” aft helium was benched for 3 games successful a row, and said helium had nary narration with manager Slot.

The 33-year-old was past dropped for the Reds’ Champions League crippled astatine Inter Milan, portion interest grew successful the Saudi Pro League astir signing the unsettled star.

But helium appeared arsenic a substitute successful a 2-0 Premier League triumph against Brighton connected December 13, providing an assist, and Slot subsequently said the nine had moved connected from the furore.

Slot, whose fourth-placed squad big struggling Burnley connected Saturday, was asked astatine his pre-match quality league astir Salah’s instrumentality connected Sunday.

“First of all, helium needs to play different large crippled for Egypt connected Saturday,” said the Dutchman.

“And past helium comes backmost to us, and I’m blessed that helium comes back. Mo has been truthful important for this club, for me, truthful I’m blessed that he’s back.

“Because adjacent if I had 15 attackers, I inactive would person been blessed if helium would person travel back, but that’s not our existent situation. So I’m blessed to person him backmost aft an important crippled that helium inactive has to play.”

Salah scored 29 Premier League goals to triumph the Premier League Golden Boot past play arsenic Liverpool romped to a 20th English league title, but has managed conscionable 4 league goals during the existent campaign.

Slot was asked erstwhile helium expected Salah to beryllium disposable to play.

“Next week,” helium said. “We’re successful talks with him, what is expected of him implicit determination and what we expect implicit here.

“But archetypal of all, helium needs to person an important crippled connected Saturday, and adjacent week helium volition beryllium backmost with us.”

Liverpool instrumentality connected Roberto de Zerbi’s Marseille successful the Champions League connected Wednesday earlier travelling to Bournemouth adjacent weekend.

The Premier League champions’ rubric defence collapsed with a tally of six defeats successful 7 league matches starting successful precocious September.

But Slot has steadied the ship, and the nine are present unbeaten successful 11 games successful each competitions.