Salah needs to be on the bench for Liverpool – Collymore

Former Liverpool striker Stan Collymore has explained the recent behaviour or Egypt forward Mohamed Salah since he announced he was leaving the club, deserves him to sit on the bench.

Collymore is unhappy with Salah’s behaviour in final season and had further said Liverpool will get a better replacement when he leaves.

With these pictures showing the bond we shared, I almost felt I could get away with saying nothing about you leaving. It’s been an honour to be your teammate and your friend. You’ve won it all and you leave as a legend. I’m sure we will meet again. pic.twitter.com/J1pmIhj4rw

— Mohamed Salah (@MoSalah) April 9, 2026

Salah has already made the decision to leave the Anfield outfit at the end of the season. Salah will bid farewell upon the conclusion of his ninth campaign as a Red and as one of the greatest to have ever worn the shirt.

The forward reached an agreement with the Reds that will see him close a remarkable nine-year chapter at Anfield. He expressed his wish to make this announcement to the supporters at the earliest possible opportunity to provide transparency about his future due to his respect and gratitude for them.

Salah not bigger than Liverpool

“Let’s not forget that he was at Roma and he was doing quite well, but I saw his early games for Chelsea and there was no indication he was going to go on and be the player that he became, so I was a bit disappointed with all the finger-pointing six months ago,” said Collymore as quoted by Flashscore.

“As a player, I don’t care who it is, if they’re not performing in training – and it won’t be just Arne Slot who’ll be deciding that, it’ll be all his staff that’ll be saying, ‘He’s not quite doing it in training, not quite doing it in games, needs to be on the bench.’

“But disappointing when any superstar hero moves on. But I think that the one thing, perhaps with Liverpool Football Club more than any football club, which is why they’re the most successful club in the country, is that no one player is bigger than the club.

“Liverpool Football Club will find someone who will take his place.”

Liverpool extremely good for Mo Salah

Collymore added: “If you look at the Andy Robertson video, it’s, ‘I’m leaving, I’m really grateful. It’s been an incredible nine years, love the club and I’ll always come back’. And I just think that Salah’s was a little…

“And I understand it, forwards are very much a different beast than a full-back, full-backs are very much the Steady Eddie of a team and the dependables, and they very rarely get the headlines; Mo Salah’s in that kind of group of players where he’s got absolute belief in himself and his own ability, so that when he’s dropped, he takes it very, very personally.

“But still, nonetheless, when people say Mo Salah’s been extremely good for Liverpool, Liverpool have been extremely good for Mo Salah.”

Salah’s final Anfield appearance for Liverpool is likely to come on the last day of the league season when Brentford visit Merseyside on May 24.