Ally McCoist slams Mo Salah for publicly berating Jurgen Klopp and offers his view on the forward’s future… but Peter Crouch sympathises with ‘fuming’ Egyptian
- Ally McCoist believes Mo Salah should have challenged Klopp behind closed doors
- Peter Crouch understands why Salah was ‘furious’ but thinks it was a ‘bad look’
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Ally McCoist believes Mo Salah should have expressed his anger towards Jurgen Klopp in the dressing room and not on the sidelines after their row at West Ham.
He also gave his advice to Salah and Liverpool on how to sort out his future, while Peter Crouch sympathized with how he would be ‘seething’ if he was ousted.
Salah had a heated argument with his manager during Liverpool’s 2-2 draw when Klopp tried to bring him on as a late substitute.
He waved his arms, pointing at the pitch and Klopp, and only stopped abusing him when Darwin Nunez, who had also been dropped, intervened.
Klopp refused to make light of the row but said they had spoken about it, while Salah issued an explosive warning: “If I speak there will be a fire.”
Mohamed Salah and Jurgen Klopp argued as the Liverpool star prepared to face West Ham
Ally McCoist argued that Salah should have saved his anger for the dressing room
‘[It was] Not good at all, especially when you see Salah coming back for another bite to eat and then one of his teammates has to come and intervene,” McCoist told TNT Sports after the match.
‘We’ve both been in dressing rooms where it happens. You don’t agree with what the manager said and then there are angry words, but it doesn’t look good. Those kinds of things should happen behind closed doors.’
Jamie Carragher has said Liverpool will have to consider Salah’s future this summer as his contract enters the final year and a new manager, likely Arne Slot, arrives.
Does McCoist agree? ‘Yes, [I think he’ll be leaving],’ he said. ‘He is one of the best players we have seen in this competition, nothing short of fantastic for Liverpool. But his form has dropped, I don’t think anyone can argue with that and it just looks to me like he’s on the move.
‘It could be one of those situations where it suits both parties. It would suit Mo Salah to move on and it would suit Liverpool to reinvest the money they get from him.”
Crouch agreed the fight was bad PR for Liverpool, but sympathized with Salah for being ‘fuming’ at being dropped.
Peter Crouch understands why Salah was ‘furious’ but said it ‘didn’t look good for the club’
He said: ‘It didn’t look good. I’m not a lip reader so I can’t tell you exactly what they said, but it didn’t look good for the club. Mo Salah is a player who has played the majority of games for Liverpool, so he will be furious. I’ve been in that position and was dying to sit on the couch.
‘Players like that who expect to start are never happy, but no one likes to see this on the side of the pitch between a manager and a real key player.’