Arne Slot launches impassioned response to Mohamed Salah's Liverpool claim - 'You understand me?'

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Without me saying anything?"During an impassioned exchange with journalists as part of his regular pre-match media briefing ahead of Saturday's Premier League visit of Chelsea, Slot tensely gripped the chair behind which he was standing when reacting to suggestions the raft of new players hadn't grasped the high standards required."I wish I was able to say what I feel at this moment but I can’t," he said. All the latest news and analysis from Anfield on the Liverpool Echo's dedicated LFC Facebook page"As I said, I completely agree with him (Salah) how important these standards are.

I think they (standards) are in a good place at the moment."I think it also makes sense that younger players – it doesn’t have to be the new players, it can be the seven-year-old that comes from the Academy – they usually gets the example of players like Mo and others for them to understand and to know what it takes to play every three days at this level."I see – and I think – that our younger players have improved in this already. "I think we have them already."As I said, senior players are not the only ones who set the standards at a club.

Can they set standards for another generation or for a team?"I don’t know what time they are in the gym, by the way. But I do know they set the right standards on the pitch."And this is what Mo did when he was 26.