Jurgen Klopp has admitted that the performance of Liverpool’s striker Mohamed Salah has gone on a downward slide since one of the club’s established strikers, Sadio Mane, left.
Klopp however insisted that the Egyptian is not finished as a top-class forward and there is still the light at the end of the dark tunnel his front line is going through. When asked if the lack of continuity within his forward line is harming the Egyptian, the Liverpool coach said; “Oh yeah, of course. Suffering? Of course. Usually, you have a real basis you build on and that is what we don’t have. That is not so difficult to explain. 
“Our forward line was a well-drilled machine – ‘the front three’ [Salah, Sadio Mane and Roberto Firmino]. Everyone was clear what we were doing. Everyone suffers [when it is not like that], that is clear.” Salah has just seven Premier League goals from his 19 starts in the competition this season, his worst ratio since he joined the club back in 2017.
Liverpool’s coach, Jurgen Klopp has disclosed that he regrets his team’s pre-season tour of Asia which they embarked on to get ready for the current campaign. 
In July 2022, they played Manchester United (losing 4-0 in Thailand) and Crystal Palace (winning 2-0 in Singapore) before jetting off to Germany to continue their preparations. Commenting on things he felt he could have done differently during a recent interview, Klopp stated that while he regrets the tour, he doesn’t think it’s why they’ve put a poor performance this season. He said; “Would I do anything different? I wouldn’t go in the first week to Asia. Not because Asia isn’t great, but I wouldn’t go [even] in the third week [of pre-season]. But it’s not really in our hands. Is that the reason [for our struggles]? I don’t think so, but it would have been better to do it differently. We learn from these things.” 
When asked if the 64-game 2021-22 season has had an effect on the current campaign, Klopp said; “It must have! We can say that now. But there was no book written about it, no data for it, because nobody did it before.” 
