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We’ve formally handed the midway level of the 2024-25 Premier League season and Liverpool surprisingly sits atop the desk with 50 factors, six forward of Arsenal. The Reds have impressed of their first season beneath new supervisor Arne Slot after Jurgen Klopp surprisingly stepped away from the membership.
However there’s nonetheless loads of season left, and Slot might now have some work to be executed within the dressing room after midfielder Curtis Jones inexplicably threw shade at celebrity teammate Mohamed Salah.
“I do know this may go a bit bit left with our followers as a result of the comparability is at all times there, however Hazard is the one [I’d pay to watch],” Jones mentioned in an interview with former Manchester United participant Rio Ferdinand on TNT Sports activities.
“I do know we examine him with Mo on a regular basis and I’ve been into it with Mo. I play it from, who I noticed as a child after I beloved the sport and I needed to be like a participant. I really feel prefer it was Hazard. Each sport, I’d watch him, identical to, ‘wow, that’s soccer.’
“I wouldn’t say he’s disrespected, however he may not come into sure [conversations] that he ought to. It’s a chat I’ve had with Mo and all of the lads. As a footballer, is he higher than Mo? For my part, sure. However who would you relatively have in your group? They’re going to say Mo as a result of he will get you your targets and assists.”
Now, to his credit score, Jones did attempt to rescue the state of affairs. He instructed Ferdinand that he’d relatively have Salah as a teammate. He additionally took to Twitter to attempt to diffuse the state of affairs.
The one I’d relatively have in my group ???? pic.twitter.com/Eb7ugwubdY
— Curtis Jones (@curtisjr_10) January 20, 2025
However you need to marvel why he’d even say what he mentioned to start with. Not that it’s not a good level. However Salah is your teammates. You might be at present in a title struggle. Why say something in any respect that might throw off the vibes? We will’t think about Slot, or Jones’s teammates, are very completely happy about this interview.
