Jurgen Klopp's comments on managing Mo Salah ring loud and true

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But the mood will not be entirely celebratory, thanks to a reignited dispute between Slot and his team's long-standing star player.Having been the talisman of the Jurgen Klopp era, Salah wrote another glorious chapter when he led Slot to a debut title, but things have soured with alarming speed. "You [only] have problems with Mo Salah if he is not playing or you take him off."Mohamed Salah and Jurgen Klopp had a couple of flashpoints relating to game time.(Image: Justin Setterfield/Getty Images)Of course, that's quite a big caveat for any manager to accept.

Slot could not allow himself to be held to ransom by Salah's desire to play, especially as he knew he was dealing with an older, perhaps slightly less elite version of the player whom Klopp had managed.So maybe Slot and Salah were placed on something of a collision course from the start (or certainly once the new contract was agreed). Indeed, one of Salah's latest incendiary statements put his teammates in the spotlight, questioning the buy-in to the elite culture from the Klopp days.But there's no escaping the reality: the uneasy truce between Salah and Slot has been blown apart in his final week at the club, and the shockwaves could persist long after the Egyptian has gone.

His manager's position suddenly looks less tenable than it did previously.Salah's departure will solve the selection dilemma, one that even Klopp occasionally had to grapple with. But he is now leaving what seems to be a divided dressing room in his wake, and it's a long way back for Slot to somehow regain buy-in and reassert his authority.He could start by dropping Salah in the last game of the season, but it's hard to see how he could come back from that among the Anfield faithful, who will be desperate to give a club legend a fitting send-off.