"🚨 Arne Slot on Salah's "under the bus" quote: "Who he meant? The ONLY one who can answer that question is Mo". "It's hard for me to tell who he means to be honest... I don't know. Ask Mo". 🚨🧨 Arne Slot on Mo Salah: "Usually I am calm and polite but it does NOT mean I'm weak. When a player says things like that, we have to react as a club". "And you can see he is NOT here". ❗️"
"🚨 Arne Slot on communications with Mo Salah: "Only one communication". "We let him know that he doesn't travel with us today. That's it". ❌✈️ 🚨 Arne Slot: "For sure, it was a surprise to me when I heard Mo Salah gave the comments that he gave...". 🚨 Arne Slot on relationship 'broken' with Salah: "That's not the way I feel... but he has the right to feel how he feels things". "Mo was always respectful to staff and to his team-mates, he trained really hard so it was a bit of a surprise when I heard he made those comments"."
"🚨 Arne Slot: "My reaction to Mo Salah words... well, that is also clear and that's why he isn't here in Milan tonight". ⚠️ 🚨🖐🏼 Arne Slot: "I don't feel my authority has been undermined [by Salah's words]". "It's not about me, it's about it being more difficult for the team and the club. It's difficult to see staff members who work hard on a daily basis being affected by it, mainly the results..."."
Arne Slot said only Mohamed Salah can answer who he meant by the "under the bus" remark and told reporters to ask Salah. Slot stated he is usually calm and polite but not weak, and that comments of that nature required a club reaction. The club informed Salah that he would not travel to Milan and left him out of the squad. Slot described the comments as a surprise given Salah's past respect for staff and teammates, denied feeling personally undermined, emphasized protecting staff and team cohesion, and said a player can always potentially return.
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