Your Liverpool morning digest as Ryan Gravenberch upsets Ronald Koeman and Mohamed Salah could not hide true feelings in Anfield mixed zone
Ryan Gravenberch upsets Ronald Koeman and Netherlands management
Ryan Gravenberch is facing the prospect of expulsion from the Netherlands national team by Ronald Koeman after the new Liverpool signing opted out of joining up with the Under-21 side.
And Dutch Under-21 boss Michael Reiziger has revealed he told the Reds’ £40m midfielder that he has made “the wrong choice” by deciding to stay with his new club over the international break to get acclimatised to life on Merseyside.
Gravenberch was a deadline day signing from Bayern Munich and became the fourth signing of an eventful summer for the Reds when joined just a few hours before the transfer window shut on Friday night.
On Monday it was revealed the 21-year-old has chosen to remain with Liverpool during the break in an effort to train at the club’s AXA Training Centre ahead of a potential Premier League debut at Wolves on September 16
U21 boss Reiziger has informed Gravenberch he is unhappy with the call, with it being reported by AD in the Netherlands that senior boss Koeman is now considering leaving him out of future first-team squads as a result.
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Mohamed Salah could not hide true feelings in Anfield mixed zone
For the amateur body language experts, the opportunity to analyse Mohamed Salah’s latest goal celebration was manna-from-Heaven given the circumstances.
The Egyptian’s second of the campaign came at the Kop End on Sunday as he finished off a Darwin Nunez flick-on from an Andy Robertson corner to round off a relatively comfortable 3-0 win over Aston Villa. It was his 188th for the Reds, but the major question remains: will it be his last?
That, in the immediate aftermath of the goal, was what many attempted to try and decipher. There was no major outpouring of emotion from Salah and his finish was greeted with the sort of muted reaction that surely would have been more animated had he thought it could be his final significant act in front of his adoring public.
The subdued celebration, in fact, only gave further credence to the idea that Salah knows there will be bigger and better goals to come from him yet before he walks away as Liverpool’s most prolific marksman of the Premier League era.
