Dropping Salah Will Make Liverpool Competitive Again – Rooney

Manchester United legend Wayne Rooney has called on Arne Slot to drop Mohamed Salah in a bid to spark Liverpool back into a run of form. He recently had his say while speaking to the press, and fans have been reacting.

According to him, even though Salah is a club legend who has given everything for the club, he needs to be benched for Liverpool to be more compact during matches.

Rooney added that every starter must be willing to run and defend for Liverpool to be competitive again.

His words, “Salah is not helping them defensively.

I’m sure if you’re one of them players they’ve signed, you’re sat on the bench and you’ve seen them not running — I get he’s a club legend and everything he’s done on the club – but if you’re on the bench then what message does that send if you see one of your teammates not running back and he’s starting every game?

If I was Arne Slot, I’d try and make a big decision just so it has an impact on the rest of the team.

When you’re not winning games, you want to stay compact and hard to beat.

While I think they’re going through this period, 100% he [Slot] needs to make a decision and get them compact, get them hard to beat and every player running back and then when they start winning games you can bring him back in and hope that he is running back more.

I think that will have an impact on the team for sure.

They haven’t been great at all, and that’s not just van Dijk and Salah.

I’d like to say they’re the leaders in the team but the likes of Mac Allister, who’s been there for a few years now, Gravenberch who did really well last year, these players have got to pull things out, get behind everyone and try and create a team that’s going to win again.”

WOW.

Liverpool Football Club is a professional football club based in Liverpool, England. The club competes in the Premier League, the top tier of English football. Founded in 1892, the club joined the Football League the following year and has played its home games at Anfield since its formation.

Domestically, the club has won 19 league titles, eight FA Cups, a record nine League Cups and 16 FA Community Shields. In international competitions, the club has won six European Cups, three UEFA Cups, four UEFA Super Cups—all English records—and one FIFA Club World Cup.

The club established itself as a major force in domestic and European football in the 1970s and 1980s, when Bill Shankly, Bob Paisley, Joe Fagan and Kenny Dalglish, led the club to a combined 11 League titles and four European Cups. Liverpool won two further European Cups in 2005 and 2019 under the management of Rafael Benítez and Jürgen Klopp, respectively; the latter led Liverpool to a 19th league title in 2020, the club’s first during the Premier League era.

Anfield was built in 1884 on land adjacent to Stanley Park. Situated 2 miles (3 km) from Liverpool city centre, it was originally used by Everton before the club moved to Goodison Park after a dispute over rent with Anfield owner John Houlding. Left with an empty ground, Houlding founded Liverpool in 1892 and the club has played at Anfield ever since. The capacity of the stadium at the time was 20,000, although only 100 spectators attended Liverpool’s first match at Anfield.