Liverpool forward Mohamed Salah published a statement on his Instagram on 16 May, hours after the club's 4-2 Premier League loss at Aston Villa.
Following Liverpool's 12th league defeat of the 2025-26 season. Salah, 33, issued the message ahead of his final home appearance for the club, with Liverpool due to host Brentford at Anfield on 24 May in their last league fixture.
In the statement, Salah said he had "witnessed this club go from doubters to believers, and from believers to champions," and that helping achieve that change was a source of pride. He called the Villa result "very painful" and said it was "not what our fans deserve."
Salah said he wants Liverpool to go back to being the "heavy metal attacking team that opponents fear" and a team that wins trophies, adding that the identity "needs to be recovered and kept for good" and "cannot be negotiable." He wrote that "winning some games here and there is not what Liverpool should be about," and that qualifying for next season's Champions League is "the bare minimum."
The comments come in Salah's final season at Anfield. Liverpool announced in March that the Egyptian, who joined from Roma in 2017 and has scored over 250 goals for the club, will leave this summer on a free transfer at the end of his nine-year spell.