Mohamed Salah blasts Liverpool fans for calling out two players

Mohamed Salah has hit out at Liverpool fans who were celebrating the depatures of Luis Diaz and Darwin Nunez. Salah angrily responded to a Liverpool fan on social media, who described the arrivals of Florian Wirtz and Alexander Isak as a "bigger upgrade" compared to Diaz and Nunez's exits.

The Merseysiders dominated the transfer window by breaking the Premier League record twice, first to sign Wirtz and then to secure the dramatic deadline day purchase of Isak from Newcastle United. However, in and amongst the historic signings, Diaz secured a move to Bayern Munich worth around £65.5million, while Nunez arrived at Saudi Arabian side Al-Hilal for around £56.6m. Liverpool fans are excited for the campaign, having also signed Hugo Ekitike, Jeremie Frimpong and Milos Kerkez. While Salah does not want to pour water over their parade, the forward, who is affectionately known as 'the Egyptian King,' hit out at one fan page which appeared to disrespect Nunez and Diaz.

The X post Salah took issue with was from a fan page named 'Anfield Edition'. The poster uploaded an edited post featuring a black and white image Diaz and Nunez above a colour picture of Wirtz and Isak with the caption 'Name a bigger upgrade in footballing history.'

A frustrated Salah retweeted the post and issued a stinging rebuke of the upload, which was posted one day after transfer deadline day. The ex-Chelsea forward wrote: "How about we celebrate the great signings without disrespecting the PL champions?"

Many Liverpool fans tweeted their support of Salah's response, with one fan writing: "This is why you're the best." Another added: "What a player man, Liverpool fan accounts are really embarrassing on here," before a third supporter said: "Yes Mo! Let them know. Both of those players played a role in why we are where we are."

Both Nunez and Diaz played a key role in Liverpool's Premier League title triumph last season. Nunez scored five Premier League goals last season, but two of those were crucial goals in a vital 2-0 away victory over Brentford, which the Reds looked set to drop points in.

Diaz also enjoyed an impressive individual campaign, scoring 13 goals and assisting seven in 36 appearances. He is also enjoying an impressive start to life at Bayern, contributing two goals and two assists in his first two Bundesliga matches of the campaign.

Meanwhile, Wirtz appears to still be getting to grips with life in the Premier League. The £116m midfielder assisted Hugo Ekitike's goal in the Community Shield defeat to Crystal Palace, but is yet to make a goal contribution in the Premier League.

Slot appeared to suggest the German is struggling to adapt to the physicality of the division, after he went down with cramp during the narrow 1-0 victory over Arsenal. The Liverpool boss said: "It wasn't an injury, it was a welcome to the Premier League! After 85 minutes, I don't think he knew he could have cramp in so many different places and that's what happened.

"That is welcome to the Premier League, that is welcome to playing in this intensity against an Arsenal that can play really intense as well. If you bring in - as we do - very, very good players, so, so, so talented but from different leagues and young - Florian is 22 and 23 Hugo [Ekitike] - I think it is normal if you are not 27 or 28 you maybe need to make a step towards the Premier League and that's what these two are doing."