Ally McCoist slams Mo Salah for publicly berating Jurgen Klopp and offers his view on the forward’s future… but Peter Crouch sympathises with ‘fuming’ Egyptian

Ally McCoist believes Mo Salah should have vented his fury with Jurgen Klopp in the dressing room and not on the touchline after their quarrel at West Ham. 

He also offered his advice to Salah and Liverpool in how they should sort his future, while Peter Crouch sympathised with how he would be ‘fuming’ for being dropped. 

Salah had a heated touchline exchange with his manager during Liverpool’s 2-2 draw when Klopp tried to bring him on as a late substitute. 

He waved his arms around, pointing at the pitch and Klopp, and only stopped berating him when Darwin Nunez, who had also been dropped, stepped in. 

Klopp refused to shed light on the spat but said they had spoken about it, while Salah issued an explosive warning: ‘If I speak, there will be fire.’

Ally McCoist argued that Salah should have saved his fury for the dressing room 

‘[It was] Not good at all, especially when you see Salah coming back to have another bite and then one of his team-mates has to come and intervene,’ McCoist told TNT Sports after the game. 

‘We’ve both been in dressing rooms where it happens. You don’t agree with what the manager has said and then there’s cross words but it does not look good. That sort of stuff should be for behind closed doors.’

Jamie Carragher has said that Liverpool must consider Salah’s future this summer with his contract entering its final year and a new manager, likely Arne Slot, joining.

Does McCoist agree? ‘Yeah, [I think he’ll be leaving],’ he said. ‘He has been one of the best players we have seen in this league, nothing short of fantastic for Liverpool. But his form has dipped, I don’t think anyone can argue with that and it just looks to me as if he might be moving.

‘It might be one of those situations where it suits both parties. It might suit Mo Salah to move on and it might suit Liverpool to reinvest the money they get from him.’

Crouch concurred that the fracas was bad PR for Liverpool but did sympathise with Salah for being ‘fuming’ at being dropped.

Peter Crouch understands why Salah was ‘fuming’ but said it ‘didn’t look good for the club’

He said: ‘It didn’t look good. I’m not a lip reader so I can’t tell you exactly what they were saying but it didn’t look good for the club. Mo Salah is a player who has started a majority of games for Liverpool so he will be fuming. I’ve been in that position, fuming to be on the bench.

‘Players like that who expect to start are never happy but no ones likes to see this on the side of the pitch between a manager and a real key player.’