Egyptian is making life as awkward as possible for the manager before leaving but his teammate has shown there is a better way
Mohamed Salah is determined to leave Liverpool with cannons firmly pointed at manager Arne Slot. The departing club legend showed he was not truly over the events of December by sparking a near mutiny with superficially motivational but actually incendiary comments on social media last week.
But there is another player who is also leaving the club and will be playing at Anfield for the last time on Sunday, and he is taking a completely different route than Salah.
Andy Robertson has backed Liverpool to challenge again next season under Slot despite the club surrendering the Premier League title and enduring what he described as an inconsistent campaign.
Liverpool sit fifth but remain on course to qualify for the Champions League, with their goal difference giving them a huge advantage over Bournemouth before Sunday’s final day fixtures.
Their disappointing season followed significant investment last summer, where Liverpool spent around £450m on new signings as they tried to build on last seaon’s success. Robertson said the club’s younger arrivals should not be judged solely on their transfer fees and believes they will justify expectations over time.
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“The season has been up and down,” Robertson said. “It has been inconsistent. We bought players that we all got excited about, and they will all have an unbelievable career at Liverpool. I have no doubt about that. But they are also young.
“The one thing I get annoyed about in football is that footballers do not control their price tag. We don’t control it, the market controls it. If a team is willing to pay it or they want to sell you and they put a price tag on you – that has nothing to do with the players.”
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Robertson also said Liverpool’s difficulties were not only because newer players needed to adapt but that more established figures failed to reach their previous standards.
“Some players who have played at a ridiculously high level, we haven’t played to that level,” the left-back said. “If you add all that in then we have had an inconsistent season and that is the huge frustration for us. We have tried to search for consistency, we have tried to search for answers this season and we have not managed to find it.
“And we have been too easy to play against. There is no hiding away from that.”
Like Salah, Robertson will receive a send-off in Sunday’s match against Brentford. He has played at Liverpool for nine years at Anfield, during which he won eight major honours including two Premier League titles and the Champions League.
Robertson has been unable to get enough minutes this season, with Slot consigning him to a bench role in favour of the newly signed Milos Kerkez. Indeed he said his departure has been driven by a desire to continue playing regularly.
“It was a mutual decision between myself and the club,” Robertson said. “I wanted one thing and I made it pretty clear that I am not ready to be a part of sitting on the bench in my life right now. I have always wanted to play games and that has not happened as much.”
But unlike his more famous teammate, he showed there was a completely different way for a club legend to do things.
