Mo Salah

[RedReet]

I think the problem is that he still makes telling contributions in the box at an elite level, but out wide the best he can manage outside is often to lay it back as he doesnt have any pace left. I think we should seriously think about moving him in the middle, and utilising Nunez wide.

And as to selling him... it depends on the availability of a replacement, but if we get offered 100m in the summer (for a 32 year old) or lose him for nothing the following year, what should we do. I dont think he is effective on his current position.

He's the most effective player in the league in terms of goals and assists, which is all that matters.

[spud_gun]

[Kenneth]

I mean, he’s not wrong, but he also said that Everton were literally a bag of Revells.

[BobTheCharmer]

I don't care about penalties and tap ins. He's finished. He's fucling woeful to watch. Zero ability to shoot from outside the box. Can't beat anyone. No power. He's at the stage where he should be coming in off the bench when opponents are tired.

[danperkins]

He had a giant mare today, desperate performance. He wasn't alone though.

[Tribute]

He had a giant mare today, desperate performance. He wasn't alone though.

Easier to name the decent performers.. Ali, Tsimikas, VVD, Endo, Grav. Rest were well below par…

[BobTheCharmer]

He had a giant mare today, desperate performance. He wasn't alone though.

He wasn't alone. But he plays like this in every game. The tips in and frequency of pens masks it.

[Tribute]

Mo Salah

I don't care about penalties and tap ins. He's finished. He's fucling woeful to watch. Zero ability to shoot from outside the box. Can't beat anyone. No power. He's at the stage where he should be coming in off the bench when opponents are tired.

You know a player is done when they can’t beat a man anymore and constantly hit defenders with both passes and shots. Mo was dreadful today… but sadly, not alone.

[BootRoom]

A typical Salah performance sans the goal/assist. He just doesn't do the-things-only-Salah-can-do anymore, and hasn't for some time.

[BobTheCharmer]

I hate watching him play. Does my head in. I know if you look at pure stats, I'm being unbelievably ungrateful. His record is amazing. But I always preferred peak mane to salah. Feel we need to be ruthless and take the oil money.

[Kenneth]

Peak Salah was an absolute joy. Last 12 months Salah is another matter.

[RedReet]

I wonder if Mo going to ACN might be a blessing in disguise for us? Individually, he'll be a huge loss and if he wasn't going, I'd still be playing him every week despite his current form. But I wonder if it could have the Gerrard effect, losing your best player forces others to step up and the team as a whole can improve.

The breakdown in play in final 3rd last few weeks has been bizarre, there has just been no cohesion. Everyone now saying they can't play together, but in preseason, Elliot, Mo and Nunez were all on the same wavelength and linking well and when the season started, Szobo came in and linked well with Mo and Nunez. This was winning us games, when our defence was still a bit shaky.

I don't know what the answer is, but I do know they didn't all suddenly become poor players overnight (Nunez was always poor, blah, blah blah...). Maybe when Mo goes though, others will step up and play with a bot more freedom (everything feels very forced ATM), or maybe the forced positional changes might unlock some hidden potential. His goals and assists will be hugely missed, but maybe this is exactly what we need to get the rest of our forwards fully firing.

[BG1973]

Yeah maybe, all definitely off the boil at the minute and feels like change is needed.

It's a really tough one because not sure how we are trying to play these days.

[danperkins]

Somebody will have to step up, Szob replacing Mo on that right hand side is very exciting imo.

[Mr Pink]

It would be great if someone did a great job on the right, while he was away, and when he came back, Mo was played through the center. I’d like to see nunez on the right, with Salah in the center.