利物浦vs切尔西 萨拉赫赛季末离队，这段时间他有伤踢不了，借此机会给了很多媒体采访的机会。天空体育台、TNT等很多机构对他进行了专访。萨拉赫强调，下赛季利物浦需要保持一个高标准，得有人早早来训练场，去健身房。利物浦与切尔西赛前发布会，当记者把萨拉赫的言论抛给主教练斯洛特，这个荷兰大光头显得很不耐烦，咔咔咔说了一大堆，到后来几乎语无伦次了。他激动个啥呢？人家萨拉赫说的不对吗？从这次回答，可以看出来，近来饱受批评的斯洛特过于敏感了，反应过激了，这说明他心虚了，他内心其实知道，因为自己，利物浦本赛季的标准降低了，下赛季更难说了。通常英超赛前新闻发布会分两部分，前半部分是电视记者，允许拍摄；后半部分是文字记者，有些时候不允许拍摄。对萨拉赫言论的回应，应该是发生在后半部分，我把斯洛特的回应全文贴出来，可惜没有视频，否则大家可以看到他紧张地抓紧椅子的画面。

Does Virgil mean the same as what Mo is saying? And what Mo is saying is that standards are really important for a football club.

"I cannot agree more with him! I did not hear him say that the standards are not okay now. Did you?

I’m not worried about it, let's put it that way. I’m not worried that the standards will be lower next season than they were this season, or the season before or the season before. No. I’m not worried about it. At all.

The standards are not only important in the gym. It’s also on the pitch. Okay. You understand me? Without me saying anything?

I wish I was able to say what I feel at this moment but I can’t, So, how will I answer that question then?

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 am completely convinced that we have enough players next season – and, add to that, the ones that we will sign – to put the standards exactly into the place they are needed."

I’m not saying that we need to sign them, I think we have them already.

As I said, senior players are not the only ones who set the standards at a club. If I look at Paris Saint-Germain: Desire Doue is 20, Khvicha Kvaratskhelia is 25. 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. I don’t think it comes down to ages that only 32 or 33-year-old players can set standards. They have lived it and experienced it and know what it takes to play at this level.

But come on, we are not talking about Florian Wirtz or Hugo Ekitike or Alexander Isak and all these players we signed. They are not children, these are serious professionals that now know what it takes to play in the Premier League and Champions League at this level.

It can only be better but it is not only down to 34-year-olds. They can definitely be a big help which they have been in the last two seasons and Virgil will still be next season as well. Standards can also be set by a 20-year-old, like Doue, or Salah who played for Liverpool when he was 26, he was also the first one in the gym then. That did not only start when he is what age he is now. It is not age related.

Do standards come from the manager? 100%, he is very important. Players can help in that but it is definitely also that the manager sets standards as well. 利物浦