Liverpool boss Jurgen Klopp pulls Mo Salah aside in dressing room after touchline row
Jurgen Klopp claims a face-to-face talk with Mohamed Salah has resolved their touchline spat at the London Stadium. The Liverpool winger and his manager exchanged angry words in the 2-2 draw with West Ham which effectively ended the Reds' Premier League title bid.
Related articles Mo Salah explodes in West Ham draw as Klopp's Liverpool career ending sour Salah and Klopp in touchline bust-up as Nunez pushes Liverpool star awayTension between Salah and Klopp may already have been simmering after the Egyptian was left out of Saturday's starting XI. And when Salah wasn't brought on until the 82nd minute, a row erupted between the pair.
Whatever Klopp said to his top scorer immediately before the substitution was made evidently didn't go down well, as Salah snapped back with angry words and flailing arms. Fellow substitute Darwin Nunez even had to step in to hold his team-mate back.
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Salah may not have felt the same way as, when he walked through the mixed zone after the match, he said: "If I speak, there will be fire." He and Nunez were both dropped by Klopp after performing poorly in Wednesday night's costly defeat at local rivals Everton.
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Mohamed Salah and Jurgen Klopp argued on the touchline during the West Ham game (Image: Getty)The revamped attacking trio of Harvey Elliott, Cody Gakpo and Luis Diaz created plenty of chances against the Hammers but proved too wasteful to clinch all three points.
Jarrod Bowen put the hosts ahead with a measured header just before the interval, before Liverpool surged ahead in the second half thanks to Andrew Robertson's snapshot and an Alphonse Areola own goal.
With a quarter of an hour to play, the Reds looked to be on the verge of a precious win, which was the minimum they needed to remain in the title race with Arsenal and Manchester City. But Michail Antonio scored late on to split the spoils and leave the Reds deflated.
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Related articles Slot ditching Klopp's Liverpool tactics could trigger tense four-player battle Man Utd star Garnacho's brother savages Liverpool forward Gakpo after Slot dealKlopp added in his post-match interview: "Very disappointed. Everybody would see it the same way: there was actually only one possible team that wins the game and that's us, with the chances we had, with all the things we did.
"It was a tough one at the end of a busy period, really tough. I thought the boys did really well, we just conceded out of nothing. In a lot of it we played really well but we didn't take our chances in the final situations. That's been the story of our last four weeks and that's why we drew here today."
Klopp and Salah have enjoyed a solid working relationship during their time at Anfield. However, change is on the horizon and both could be elsewhere by the start of next season, with Klopp planning to take a break from football and Salah a major target for clubs in the Saudi Pro League.
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Liverpool boss Jurgen Klopp pulls Mo Salah aside in dressing room after touchline row
Liverpool boss Jurgen Klopp pulls Mo Salah aside in dressing room after touchline row
Liverpool boss Jurgen Klopp pulls Mo Salah aside in dressing room after touchline row
Liverpool boss Jurgen Klopp pulls Mo Salah aside in dressing room after touchline row
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