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Dominik Szoboszlai has insisted that Mohamed Salah needs to make a call on his future himself, and indicated that his Liverpool teammates will not try and influence him in any way.
Salah’s time at Anfield could well be coming to an end after his outburst against the club and Arne Slot at the weekend. The 33-year-old accused Liverpool of “throwing him under the bus” while suggesting that someone wanted him out, and claiming that his relationship with the Reds’ head coach had broken down.
What’s more, Salah has suggested that he could play his final game for Liverpool this weekend - if he hasn’t already.
Having been left out of the squad for Tuesday’s Champions League win over Inter Milan, a decision is yet to be confirmed over whether he will return against Brighton, in what will be his last game before he departs for the Africa Cup of Nations.
With the tournament running until January 18, it is possible that, should Salah secure a transfer, he might not return to Liverpool following Egypt’s involvement, although Slot hasn’t closed the door on him making a return to the side.
Whether he will or not remains to be seen, but Szoboszlai insists the decision has to come down to Salah himself.
"I’m very close with him," Szoboszlai told reporters in Milan on Tuesday. "It’s nothing to do with the players.
"It’s him and his own choice with what he is doing with his own life and his own career."
Asked whether he wanted Salah to stay, he added: “It’s not our decision as players. I love him as a human being, as a friend of mine. As a player, he has done so much for this club; it’s going to be the club’s and his decision.”
Szoboszlai’s comments back up what the midfielder said following Liverpool’s draw at Leeds on Saturday, when he insisted that any disagreements within the dressing room should stay in-house - shortly before Salah made his grievances public.
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"What is in the dressing room stays in the dressing room, it is not for the public,” Szoboszlai said.
"We have to manage it, we have to find solutions. I can always come up with the opportunity on Tuesday or on the weekend again, but there are also times where you have to look at yourself.
"You have to go home and think if you did everything what was possible, and if the answer is yes, then we just keep going, and the momentum will come."
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