Crystal Palace put on red alert over Oliver Glasner to Liverpool as Mo Salah drops Arne Slot bombshell

Liverpool boss Arne Slot is coming under pressure after another result to forget and a bombshell statement from fan favourite Mohamed Salah. The Reds continued their poor form with a 3-3 draw with Leeds United on Saturday that saw them concede a stoppage time equaliser.

The result means the Premier League champions have conceded three or more in three of their last five games across all competitions, and they have only won one of those games.

Liverpool are down in eighth place, and they now have a drama on their hands, with star man Salah speaking out against his manager, Slot, over a lack of game time. Salah, who was vital to Liverpool’s title win last season, was an unused substitute at Elland Road, and he believes there is an agenda to get him out of the club just months after he signed a new contract.

“I can’t believe … I’m sitting on the bench for 90 minutes,” Salah said after the game. “The third time on the bench, I think for the first time in my career. I’m very, very disappointed. I have done so much for this club down the years and especially last season. Now I’m sitting on the bench and I don’t know why.

"I said many times before that I had a good relationship with the manager, and all of a sudden we don't have any relationship. I don't know why but it seems to me, how I see it, that someone doesn't want me in the club.

"It seems like the club has thrown me under the bus. That is how I am feeling. I think it is very clear that someone wanted me to get all of the blame. This club, I will always support it. My kids will always support it. I love the club so much and I always will.

"It [the situation] is not acceptable to me, to be fair. I don't get it. It's like I'm being thrown more under the bus. I don't think I'm the problem. I have done so much for this club. I don't have to go every day fighting for my position because I earned it. I am not bigger than anyone but I earned my position. It's football. It is what it is."

Glasner linked with Liverpool job

Salah’s comments only pile further pressure on Slot, who is likely one of the most under-pressure managers in the Premier League given Liverpool’s poor form and the danger of them missing out on European football if they don’t get their act together.

Oddsmakers are already pulling together the favourites to replace Slot, and Xabi Alonso is somehow the favourite. But the Spaniard is not going to be leaving Real Madrid just months after arriving, and especially not with Los Blancos locked in a title race with Barcelona.

Beyond Alonso, Crystal Palace boss Oliver Glasner is the next favourite, with the Austrian out of contract at Selhurst Park at the end of the season. Palace will be desperate to get Glasner tied up to a new deal, but Glasner himself may feel as though the summer is the right time to get his opportunity to take a top-tier job given the wonders he has worked in South London.

Palace look as though they are in the conversation to qualify for Europe for a second successive season, but there were recruitment issues in the summer, and Glasner may feel as though there is a ceiling on Palace’s success, and one that they may reach should they finish in the top six or seven this season.

Jurgen Klopp is the only other manager high in the odds, but the German would be taking a big risk in returning, given the good relationship he had with Liverpool and the Merseyside club’s fans when he left.

What Slot has said

The Salah comments came after Slot had spoken to the media following the Leeds game, so we will have to wait for his response to those comments, but Slot was asked if his side are ‘mentally weak’, with questions now getting tougher for the Dutchman in the wake of poor form.

“I don't feel that,” he responded. “Although it's never nice when you're 2-0 up and you control the game. I think we even had the chance to go 3-0 up with Cody [Gakpo] and a counter. It's not even a dangerous situation that leads to a penalty and then if you play at Leeds, or no matter which stadium you play in the Premier League, then there is belief again.

“That belief becomes even stronger if the first chance they have that goes in and it's 2-2, and then I saw mentality – the mentality to come back. Not only mentality but also quality. Macca [Alexis Mac Allister] stepped over the ball… Dom was in the position we wanted him to be in today and finished it off. [The] referee then came with nine minutes of extra time and in that nine minutes of extra time we conceded [from] a set-piece.”

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