Mohamed Salah's touchline spat with Jurgen Klopp is inexcusable, writes HOLT
Mo Salah is an exceptional footballer. Everything I have heard about him, from team-mates, ex-team-mates and people who have worked with him, suggests that he is also a model professional, someone whose dedication to the game is beyond reproach, someone whose meticulous attitude towards recovery between matches, as one example, sets the standard.
It is a high bar at a club that has won as much as Liverpool, but Salah is one of Anfield’s all-time greats, a player who deserves his place in the club’s iconography alongside legendary strikers like Roger Hunt, Kevin Keegan and Ian Rush, a man who has won it all during his time on Merseyside.
He has been good for Liverpool and Liverpool has been good for him and the way he behaved towards Jurgen Klopp on the touchline at the London Stadium on Saturday afternoon does not change the fact that his record demands he continues to be regarded with great respect long after he leaves. The consistency of his goalscoring has been remarkable.
But there will be a footnote now. Not much more than that, perhaps, but a caveat nonetheless. Because the way Salah treated his manager as he was waiting to come on towards the end of the 2-2 draw at West Ham was inexcusable. Salah crossed a line that no player should ever cross.
Imagine for a minute Hunt behaving like that towards Bill Shankly or Kenny Dalglish showing that level of disrespect towards Bob Paisley. It is inconceivable. They had their disagreements, too, but they had more dignity and regard for their managers to behave like a spoilt child in front of tens of thousands of people at a stadium and millions watching on television.
What I find particularly hard to stomach is that Salah should do this now, at a moment when a manager who has
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