Arne Slot’s big mistake at Liverpool this season? Failing to drop struggling Salah

Mohamed Salah has drifted from crucial to peripheral in big games, and Arne Slot’s decision to keep picking him is strange.

MO PROBLEMS: Liverpool's Mohamed Salah rues a missed chance during the Premier League match at Etihad Stadium. Pic: Nick Potts/PA Wire.

There must be blame. We need heads on the battlements. We need entrails, horses, chains, a public quartering. Basically we just need to feel something. We need, above all, to feel that this is all someone’s fault.

This is how elite football must function now. The Dalai Lama once said that instead of looking to blame others we should look for answers within ourselves, which just goes to show how wrong you can be and is, frankly, very disappointing from the Dalai Lama.