i'm over on the 🦋 app for anyone who's arsed 👍 https://t.co/3wkf0IGkn3

i’m fucking crying

thoughts with the liverpool fans who were desperate for us to get battered tonight because of their own deranged conspiracy-brained agendas. those thoughts of course being that they fall down the stairs in the middle of the night and break both their legs 👍

thought that was a pretty good performance all things considered. difficult european away day and massive pressure given the shitshow of the last few days. still a long way off where we want to be obviously, but we’ll take it.

has to be said that szobo has been one of the few beacons in an abject season. can’t fault him week in, week out. proper captain material.

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carragher said that salah hasn’t *won* anything with egypt, which is correct. his point (which he says in literally the same sentence) was that salah’s success isn’t just down to him as an individual, but he’s also benefitted from the club, management, and fans to get where he is

saying this as a liverpool fan while having an inter milan badge as your profile picture is very very funny in fairness. absolutely deranged of course, but funny nonetheless.

in the exact same breath he says that salah has been one of the best players in the world over the past 8 years, and is egypt’s greatest ever player. but you wouldn’t get any of that from the butchered quotes being shared around.

what carragher said was objectively true - salah was seen as a chelsea reject when he joined liverpool. that was the overriding narrative at the time. his point (which he makes extremely clear) is that salah should be reminded of what the club and the fans have done for him also.

this tweet has taken all context out of what carragher was saying, and has edited his comments to make them look as incendiary as possible. aggregator accounts stoking fan outrage to drive engagement are a fucking poison on this app, the sooner we all stop engaging the better.

fair play, it’s extremely funny to fail to understand an extremely simple concept, and then make a video ranting that nobody has explained this very simple concept to you (because it’s so fucking simple).

people criticising salah’s actions are not suddenly disregarding everything he’s done, his place in the club’s history, or his importance to the squad. yet some are determined to make this extremely binary because it makes it less complicated, and easier to drive a narrative.

salah’s given rogue interviews in the past, he’s had fallings out with managers and the hierarchy, and he’s had long stretches of poor form where he’s been criticised. none of these things are new and yet he has still and will always be seen as a club legend. because it’s nuanced

journalists have been using ‘mo’ and ‘mohamed’ interchangeably ever since he joined liverpool. he’s definitely suffered with bias going against him, but we don’t need to use selective examples to prove that. just as examples, from the same two journalists:

think a lot of people on here have echo chambered themselves into believing their own fantasies about how the squad feel about this. it shouldn’t be a surprise that they have a much more nuanced and mature take given they’re having to deal with the aftermath first-hand.

there’s an absolute mentalist on here calling himself ‘hang arne slot’ with a photo of slot on epstein’s mugshot, who’s posted nearly 20,000 posts in like three months. have to remind myself that sometimes you are engaging with actual legitimate crackpots on this app.

i kind of understand taking a side between salah and slot (although it’s fucking childish), but siding with one player over the entire club, the rest of the squad, basically everything? should bar you from ever setting foot in anfield, assuming it was ever on the cards

some of you lot have absolutely lost your fucking minds by the way

the club has to take a strong stance on this, whether you agree with salah or not. they cannot be seen to endorse players giving rogue interviews which undermine the club hierarchy (justified or not). sets a horrible precedent.

also worth mentioning that salah is about to jet off to AFCON, and it’s his teammates who will be picking up the pieces of the fucking grenade he’s chosen to set off. maybe they’re thanking him for it, maybe not, fuck knows.