Arne Slot makes 'probably impossible' admission over replacing Mo Salah at Liverpool

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Liverpool will be left with a huge void in their squad when Mohamed Salah leaves the club at the end of the season and Arne Slot has called on other players to step upArne Slot has admitted that finding a single player to replace Mohamed Salah is "probably impossible" and that Liverpool will instead turn to last summer's recruits to step up when he leaves. Otherwise there would be 15 or 20 Mo’s and he is one of a kind, which is why he is so special."You cannot find a Mo replacement.

I know why you ask this question."While getting the best out of last summer's recruits is a priority, Slot also feels that the role of the Premier League winger has also changed so much that players in Salah's mould will become rarer and rarer.He added: "How the league has changed is maybe not so much to do with the winger position that we need to recruit. We will always try to have our own style, but we cannot shut our eyes for the new reality and that is that it's not only low blocks, it's also set-piece after set-piece after set-piece."One of the reasons why we haven't been successful in the first half of the season was mainly set-pieces.

But there are more things that you have to be aware of like set-piece, defending all these long throw-ins and all these pieces that teams do."Maybe having someone that has a long throw-in because when we had this with Joe Gomez we immediately scored against Nottingham Forest. So you try to make the team as best as possible, and that's why replacing Mo on a one-on-one is probably impossible."So we have to find a way of making it work that the team is stronger but it would already make our team much stronger if we've got Alex, Hugo and Florian together available for a bit more than 88 minutes this year."Join our LFC WhatsApp community and get all the latest LFC news, views, transfer gossip and more, as it happens We also treat our community members to special offers, promotions, and adverts from us and our partners.