Everyone's wondering why Mohamed Salah is struggling at Liverpool, especially after he kind of blew up at the team. Some people think it's because Trent Alexander-Arnold left last summer. Dean Saunders said that the Egyptian King isn't having an easy time this season (2025-26), and that's why he spoke out.

Salah started on the bench after a good start.

After signing a new two-year deal in April, Salah began the season okay. He scored three goals in five games across the Premier League and Champions League, while the English champs started perfectly.

Things went downhill fast for everyone, though. Salah went six games without a goal and is currently on another dry spell of the same length. Plus, the 33-year-old hasn't been playing as much as he wants lately.

Salah is back in the team after a rant against Liverpool.

He's been a sub in the last four Premier League games. In one of those games, Liverpool drew 3-3 with Leeds. After that, Salah accused the team of throwing him under the bus and said his relationship with the coach, Arne Slot, was falling apart.

The team decided not to take Salah to the game against Inter Milan. He came back for the Brighton game and even got an assist after coming on in the 26th minute.

Now he's off to the Africa Cup of Nations, and people are wondering if he'll be transferred in January, especially with those Saudi Pro League clubs sniffing around again.

Why is Salah struggling? What's Alexander-Arnold got to do with it?

Saunders, a former Liverpool striker, was asked why Salah is having trouble after scoring 250 goals for the team. He told GOAL, "Who would have thought it could go this wrong?" He’s going to miss Trent because Trent’s disguised passing got him in. Trent would even look at him sometimes and find him. Full-backs knew where Salah was, but Trent played inside him and passed the ball outside and said, ‘If you need me, if you need to give it back to me, when you give it back, I’ve got the magic wand to find anybody in the box.’ Clubs made sure they got someone out to Trent because they knew he could hurt them, and that left Mo Salah one-on-one with the full-back. They are leaving the fullback on the ball because they can’t hurt them as Trent did. They have had five right-backs play.

I’m sticking up for him a little bit here. He’s lost [Diogo] Jota and [Darwin] Nunez and [Luis] Diaz. Diaz used to go outside the fullback and cross it. [Cody] Gakpo never goes outside the full-back. He’s lost Andy Robertson. He’s got a bit of an argument on why he’s not playing well, which is fair enough. But I would say to him, ‘When’s the last time you beat the fullback? When was the last time you cut inside and hit one in the top corner? When was the last goal you scored? When’s the last time you looked like Mo Salah, the one we know? So look in the mirror and sort your own game out.’

I understand what he’s saying, but to then come out with what he did after it was obvious that Slot had gone for a clean sheet at West Ham. He’s obviously gone with ‘We need a clean sheet; I’m going to sacrifice attacking,’ and he played [Dominik] Szoboszlai in Mo’s position. And the game at Inter—that was the best back four he could put out—Joe Gomez, [Virgil] van Dijk, [Ibrahima] Konate, and Andy Robertson. He must understand what the manager is trying to do by leaving him out, but in his head, he thinks, ‘I’m the best player in the world; how can you do this to me?’ He shouldn’t have said what he said, and he needs to apologise. If he apologises, things can be swept under the carpet.”

What's next for Salah?

Slot said he'd talk to Salah before the Brighton game. They seem to have worked things out since Salah came off the bench when Gomez got hurt during the game against Brighton, but we'll have to wait and see what happens next.