Patrick Vieira thinks Mo Salah’s ‘below the belt’ comments could sour his Liverpool legacy

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Patrick Vieira sees Mohamed Salah’s untimely outburst as a potential stain on his Liverpool legacy, and he has told Arne Slot what he thinks should have happened with the 33-year-old a long time ago. Salah’s comments about Liverpool’s direction and Slot’s role in a miserable season have split opinion since the Aston Villa game.

I think he should leave and people remember what he gave to this football club because he was maybe one of the best Liverpool players in the last 30, 40 years.“And I think that kind of message will shed a little bit of darkness on his Liverpool career, I would say.”Outside Liverpool, Salah’s actions are being judged as unnecessary and damaging. This sounds like it was aimed at Slot… Photo Credit: Getty Images/Liverpool FC Vieira thinks Arne Slot should have sold Salah last summerAfter Salah’s numbers last season, offering him a new contract felt like the only sensible decision.

He was still producing at an elite level, still Liverpool’s most important forward and still the face of the club.Vieira, though, now thinks Liverpool waited too long.He explains: “I think he got to a time where the best decision for him is for him to leave the club.“And I think the manager of Liverpool Football Club should have made Salah leave last year. I think he was a year too long before him leaving and there’s a lot of frustration.”In hindsight, there may be some truth to that.If Liverpool had sold Salah last summer, they would have avoided this messy ending and protected both the player and the manager from the fallout.