Mohamed Salah & Arne Slot: Liverpool unrest continues as Xabi Alonso chooses Chelsea

Mohamed Salah's latest unprompted public outburst will ratchet up the pressure on struggling Liverpool head coach Arne Slot by several notches. Salah first laid bare his frustrations with Slot and Liverpool after the 3-3 draw at Leeds United in December, claiming he had been "thrown under the bus" after being dropped following the Premier League champions' poor start to the season. This time Salah, who is scheduled to play his final game for Liverpool against Brentford at Anfield on the closing weekend of the season, took to social media after Friday's 4-2 loss at Aston Villa to launch a thinly-veiled attack on their style under Slot and the failures this season. Slot has been losing credit fast since winning the league in his first season after succeeding Jurgen Klopp. And now Salah has called for a return to the kind of football Klopp made his trademark - a "heavy metal attacking team that opponents fear", to use the Egyptian's words. "The identity that needs to be recovered and kept for good," he added. The contrast was sharp between Unai Emery's vibrant Aston Villa - who confirmed Champions League football next season with victory at Villa Park and are in the Europa League fina