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Alisson understands Salah outburst as he previews Liverpool's champions league game at Inter
08/12/2025
San Siro Stadium, Milan, Italy
08/12/2025
San Siro Stadium, Milan, Italy
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00:00Alisson Becker, just raise your hand if you want to ask a question.
00:03I'm going to start with Vinny from Sky.
00:05Ali, good to see you.
00:07First of all, I've got to ask you about most Salahner's comments
00:10after the Leeds game.
00:11How do you feel about them and have those comments impacted you all as a group?
00:16Good evening, everyone. Buonasera.
00:19Well, I think it's not an easy situation,
00:25but as a group we take as best as we can take.
00:31Of course, we have the personal relationship with him.
00:35Talking about myself now, I've been playing with Mo since I came to Europe,
00:42one year in Roma and now eight years, if I'm not mistaken, at Liverpool.
00:50He's a great guy, great character. He's a legend for Liverpool FC.
00:58We achieved so many things together.
01:01And of course, personally, it's not something that makes me happy.
01:05But we have in football, we don't have too much time to stay moaning about any situation.
01:14We have a big challenge tomorrow, a big team to play against.
01:19Inter Milan is doing so well in the season, has been doing so well in the recent past.
01:26So my focus, our focus, the focus of the team is in the challenge we're going to face tomorrow.
01:34What have you said to Mo or Ali?
01:36What sense is there, if any, of being let down?
01:40Because obviously he's not available for selection in such a big game.
01:45Yeah, him not being available, I think, is just a consequence of what he did.
01:52And he's smart enough to know that.
01:55I didn't spoke to Mo about it, how I want to talk.
02:04As I said before, we have a good relationship.
02:07It's not just a teammate.
02:11We spend so much time together.
02:13We don't spend too much time away from the training round.
02:19But we are friends, we are good friends.
02:22You share so many moments together, happy moments, sad moments.
02:26So that creates a bound between people.
02:30And I will have a conversation, but again, this is going to be private.
02:36Because it's personal.
02:38So how together is the dressing room overall?
02:41Yeah, as I said, as good as we can be.
02:44I think all the players are going to have different thoughts about the situation.
02:51And that's okay.
02:53But we know the challenges we are facing at this moment,
02:58not performing well, not having good results.
03:01And that's been difficult enough for us.
03:04Those are big challenges for us to try to change the situation.
03:09To try to play better, to be more consistent in the games.
03:16So it doesn't matter too much how we feel personally.
03:20But we're going to give a proper reaction.
03:24We want to give a proper reaction to it tomorrow, to the situation.
03:28And to having the due respect to Inter Milan, trying to win the game.
03:35And to deserve it by playing well.
03:38That's it.
03:40Hi, Alisson.
03:41Mo said that he felt he'd been thrown under the bus by the club at the moment.
03:46Is that how you see it or do you see it differently?
03:50I think the manager was really wise in his answer and I agree with him.
03:53I don't know what that means.
03:55Maybe you have to ask Mo what he means about that.
04:02Do you think he will play for the club again?
04:07I don't think anything.
04:10What I hope, yes, that he plays again for the club.
04:14That's a personal situation.
04:19That's a situation between Mo and the club.
04:22We, as his teammates, as his friends,
04:26we hope the best thing happens for him.
04:30But as Liverpool FC players, we want the best for the club as well.
04:34So, we want a win-win situation for everyone.
04:39Lewis, Mo has obviously made it quite clear how he has his relationship with the manager.
04:44Would you say your relationship is still good with the manager?
04:48Yeah, my relationship is good with the manager, yeah.
04:56Anderson, Wayne Rooney said that Mo Salah had disrespected his teammates.
05:02Do you feel disrespected?
05:05And also, when a rift occurs like this,
05:08what is the impact that he can have in the dressing room?
05:12I haven't seen what he said,
05:15so I don't like to comment on things that I didn't hurt myself.
05:23It can have an impact, it's not something small.
05:29It's Mo Salah.
05:32I think what's happening now here shows,
05:35tells about the situation.
05:37But again, we are grown-up men,
05:42we understand that this is a personal situation for Mo.
05:48But do you feel disrespected by his comments?
05:50No, I don't believe that it's his goal to disrespect anyone.
06:00I believe he has the freedom to speak,
06:05to talk about how he feels about his own situation.
06:09What we expect is a player that wants to play,
06:15that is not comfortable being on the bench.
06:20But again, you have the freedom to talk,
06:23but you need to deal with the consequences of that.
06:29I think that's clear.
06:30And as a team,
06:32again, it's not important how we feel,
06:34but it's important how we're going to react now.
06:37And the reaction is
06:40staying together, working hard
06:42to overcome a bad situation that we are living.
06:45We are not living just a moment.
06:47It's not just about Mo,
06:49it's about the team,
06:50it's about what is the best for the club.
06:52So that's what we're going to try to do tomorrow.
06:55How have the last two days been within the players?
07:00Is it sort of weird?
07:01Is it like anything you've ever experienced before
07:03when it's so clear that there's such a big controversy going on?
07:07No, after the interview,
07:09I thought it would be really weird,
07:11but it wasn't.
07:13Again, we are grown-up men,
07:15we know that this is about a personal situation
07:19and we respect that.
07:21We played our last game on Saturday night
07:30and it's not been too much time.
07:32So the time we spent together in the training round
07:36was to rest, to recover
07:38and to focus again on a huge team, Inter Milan,
07:43who's been really successful in the recent years,
07:47reaching Champions League finals,
07:49winning titles.
07:52The situation they are in the Champions League is really good.
07:55They are playing well.
07:57They have so much quality.
07:59In the Serie A they are second on the table,
08:02one point behind Napoli.
08:04They have great strikers, great midfielders,
08:08great defenders, a great goalkeeper.
08:10So it's a big challenge for us
08:12and that's where our focus are now.
08:15Thumbs up.
08:16Hi Alison.
08:17Mo said that he feels he's been criticised unfairly
08:22by people, ex-players, pundits.
08:25As your friend, as your teammate,
08:28do you think he's right?
08:29Has he been criticised unfairly by people outside the club?
08:33Well, I think I don't follow too much like what people say about him.
08:40So I don't know exactly what kind of criticisms they are.
08:45So I cannot have an opinion about something that I don't know.
08:50But I think if he's sad, he's feeling like that.
08:55And he has the right to talk about it.
09:01But this is part of football.
09:05Criticism is part of football.
09:07How I deal with that myself,
09:09I try not to follow too much of what you say.
09:12Not because I'm not interested,
09:14but because I have three kids,
09:17I don't have much time at home to do that.
09:19And again, the challenges we have already,
09:23they are really big.
09:24So we need to be really realistic about our situation,
09:32about what we are living.
09:35The things that we need to improve
09:37is really difficult to identify what the problems are.
09:41And we are trying to do that.
09:44So we are really focused on that.
09:46And that's my say on that question.
09:50Hello, Alison.
09:53Juan Jorreda from Fox Mexico.
09:55Mo said he shouldn't have to learn his plays
09:58because of what he has done for the club.
10:00I want to know if guys like you, Virgil,
10:03or other players of your generation feel something similar.
10:07I mean, that your legacy should carry certain recognition
10:10and recognition in the team on daily basis.
10:13I think we have football, things happen so quick.
10:28We play every three days.
10:30We just won the Premier League.
10:33Amazing achievement.
10:35And now we are here in this situation.
10:38Not the situation we wanted to be.
10:42But we have to deal with that.
10:44And that's how football works.
10:46You have to perform every game, every week.
10:54That's part of playing for Liverpool FC.
10:57That's part of playing the Champions League.
11:00That's part of playing the Premier League.
11:02You have to compete at the highest level.
11:05And that's what we try to do.
11:08That's what I try to do to be at my highest level.
11:12So I can be the best for the team as well.
11:19Beth, James.
11:20Hi, Ali.
11:21You've obviously been at this club for a long time.
11:24You've been through good times, bad times.
11:26And you are now one of the senior players in the dressing room.
11:30So when a period is tough on the pitch and off the pitch like it is now,
11:34even tonight coming out takes courage to come in front up to these questions.
11:37Do you feel like your leadership and that of Virgil and Robertson
11:41and all of those senior players is more important than ever at this moment in time?
11:46Yes, we are.
11:47We are.
11:48Definitely.
11:49I think that's what everyone hopes from us.
11:53The expectations are that the senior players that we step up,
11:58the expectations from the club as well, that we are here for also.
12:04Of course, we are here to win games, to win titles, to perform.
12:10But in my opinion, I take this responsibility and I feel this responsibility
12:19that I can give more to the team that just playing well,
12:28but I can give a good contribution by being a leader to the youngest one,
12:33to the new players.
12:35We've been here so long, so in a way we have the Liverpool way in our mentality.
12:43And I think that should go on to the other players.
12:47And we are the players that have to pass on.
12:50Not only me, not only Virgil, not only Robo.
12:53All the players who play a long time here at Liverpool.
12:57We have Curtis that is a local lad.
13:03We have so many players that are playing more than two, three years for Liverpool.
13:10And they have this mentality as well when they are trying to step up as well.
13:14Maybe not coming in the interviews, maybe not talking too much, but by the actions.
13:19So being a leader is not only about to come in here and talk to you guys.
13:23That demands courage.
13:25But at the same time, I'm being honest and just sharing my view.
13:29But demands that you take action on the pitch.
13:35It's what we expect from every leader.
13:37It's to talk at the right time, but to take action as well on the pitch.
13:43James and I will finish up, yeah.
13:46Ali, it's such a difficult situation for the manager to deal with
13:49in the last couple of days on top of all the negative results
13:53and four wins in the last 15.
13:55As a squad, the rest of you, are you still fully behind Arna?
13:59Of course, yeah, we are.
14:02What gives you that belief that he will turn things around?
14:06Well, I think that the Premier League at last season.
14:12So before Arna came in, everybody talks about the huge challenge
14:17that is being the substitute for Jurgen Klopp.
14:21Looks like now everyone takes for granted what we achieved in the last season.
14:27It should not be taken for granted.
14:31And that's enough. That should be enough.
14:35But we believe in his knowledge.
14:39We believe in his style of playing,
14:42that he is capable of helping us to turn around this situation.
14:47And I believe that this is not only about ourselves,
14:51but that's the situation with the club as well.
14:54They trust him.
14:55So it's not only his responsibility.
15:00As a player, I share the responsibility with him
15:03to turn around the situation.
15:05Of course, he is the main responsible for the way the team plays.
15:10But we players, we know that we are responsible for the situation.
15:15We take the responsibility.
15:17And we are the ones that take action.
15:19So we are the ones that can change everything.
15:23We are trying.
15:25That doesn't make the situation easier.
15:27To know that we have the responsibility.
15:29To know that we need to take action.
15:31But we are trying to do that.
15:33We have the desire to change the situation.
15:37The manager has the desire to change it as well.
15:41And to be back on the winning track.
15:45On playing the same good football that we were playing in the last season.
15:51Last one here, please.
15:53Hello, Alison.
15:54I want to ask you in Italian if you could tell us your reaction
16:01both yours personally and as a team, once you heard what Salah had to say, based on what I've said, based on what I've heard from you, Salah, I wanted to hear about your reaction there.
16:16And I'd also like to ask you whether we should expect Liverpool to come to San Siro tomorrow and try to compete.
16:28This is not a situation that makes us happy.
16:32I speak a little bit more Italian, I speak in English or Italian?
16:36This is not a situation where you make us happy.
16:52On a personal level, we all love Mo.
17:02He's a huge player for this game.
17:08He's a wonderful human being and he's a spectacular player.
17:14He's been very important for the club.
17:17For the last nine years, he's produced incredible numbers.
17:23This one with everything there is to win over the course of this career.
17:30And of course, the situation isn't nice.
17:34We were a little bit caught by surprise.
17:46It's a personal situation.
17:51So, when we leave it, let's meet him and the club because it's in the personal situation.
17:56What we believe, he's really comfortable with him.
17:59What happens is what he thinks about the club games as well.
18:05What happens is for him and the club to reach a team, which is in the best interest of him and the club.
18:18We want to play our best.
18:31We want to improve the situation.
18:33We want to play a football player who is the player.
18:37We want to play a football player who is the player who is the player who is the player who will win.
18:45It won't be easy, we won't be in any way easy, we won't be aware that Inter is a strong team and when they play at home, they have their fans behind them and we know that it's a huge challenge and we know that it's a huge challenge, with all the respect we can have for Inter is to win this game.
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