""Usually I am calm and polite, but that doesn't mean I am weak," he said. "If a player has these commands about so many things, then it's about me and the club to react. We reacted in way you can see - he's not here." He added: "I don't feel my authority is undermined, it is not the way I feel it.""
"Salah said in his interview it was "very clear that someone wants me to get all the blame", but Slot says he does not know if that comment was aimed at him and gave his reasons for leaving Salah out for the past three games. "It is hard for me to know who he was talking about," Slot said. "That is not the way I feel.""
The Liverpool manager maintains he is not weak and says leaving Mohamed Salah out of the Champions League squad was the club's reaction to the winger's public comments. Salah claimed he was "thrown under the bus" and suggested someone wanted him to take blame. The manager described the interview as a surprise, explained the decision to omit Salah from selection, and stressed there remains a possibility for the player to return while expressing no certainty about whether Salah has played his final game for the club.
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