Riise Goes Nuclear on Salah — “I’d Be Shocked If Slot Lets Him Play the Final Game After That Stunt”

John Arne Riise surprised if Arne Slot starts Mo Salah for the final game and he is not holding back on why.

Riise has met Salah. He called him smiley, friendly, respectful. A lovely person. Then he read the comments. The ones that publicly tore into the team while Liverpool’s season was hanging by a thread. Riise said it almost feels like a different person wrote them. If a PR team told Salah to do this to make his name bigger than the club, Riise says flatly that is wrong. Liverpool will always be bigger than any player. Always.

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The Norwegian does not understand why Arne Slot would allow a player to criticize the team in public and then reward him with a big send-off in the final match. He agreed with Wayne Rooney. He agreed with Jamie Carragher. He said he would be genuinely surprised if Salah starts that game. Why would the manager reward that behavior after everything that has been said. The question hangs there unanswered.

The timing made it worse. Everyone knows Salah is leaving after the Brentford fixture. The exit door is already open. Riise said if Salah really felt he needed to say those things, he should have waited until the season was finished. Or just kept his mouth shut entirely. The comments annoyed him. They annoyed a lot of people.

Salah is a Liverpool legend. The goals. The moments. The trophies. None of that is being erased. But the exit is turning ugly. Public statements. Media firestorms. A manager caught in the middle. A club legend questioning whether the star player even deserves to step on the pitch one last time. The final game is coming. Slot has a decision to make. Riise already knows where he stands.