This is so fucking stupid. We never replaced Coutinho. We bought two completely different players who did absolutely nothing he did, and we were better for it. We are in need of a new team, which, if it is ever realized, will not be some version of the old team, because that's never how it works, and the meta game keeps moving along. We kept someone who isn't particularly adaptable and was the exclamation mark on the old team.
Salah is worse and worsening at all the things he is best at doing. More significantly all the things he's best at are less useful to us right now.
I hope he has a little purple patch and he can help paper over the cracks a little, because that's all we can hope for.
He's a winger that doesn't defend right now. Boy is it fun to watch. Occasionally when we actually dominate the opponents third and he moves centrally, he will score with unremarkable frequency. Otherwise, for all the jabs at how dumb Nunez is, and how poor his touch is, he doesn't usually cut inside into traffic and get dispossessed by a left back. He might shoot it into row z, or he might get to the byline, or pass, the fucking dummy. Salah is doing coutinhos old move of looking to score the one goal that is reliable for him, but it's almost a tic at this point.
When Trent and Henderson and whoever else used to bail Salah out it was worth it, and they were capable of doing it, because he was doing more. Now it isn't.
He should be put to work a bit. When more technically gifted forwards are back in terms of build up play, maybe he can do the business a bit. It'd be nice. Only it's going to be a few months from now. Unless gakpo really hits the ground running.
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