Liverpool will meet Manchester City in the FA Cup quarterfinal today with Salah to make his first appearance since it was announced he was leaving the Reds after nine years with the club.
It has been suggested Salah decided to leave before Christmas after being dropped by Slot. Tension between the pair and the club's higher ups saw Salah launched a tirade which saw him sidelined before jetting off to join Egypt's Africa Cup of Nations squad.
"I look back at this season thinking that I made a few decisions that could have been better but I’m not talking about this specific thing with Mo," Slot said on Friday.
"I don't regret many things I did during a little longer than one-and-a-half years together. Again, the assumption that if he's not playing that he wants to leave - that's the assumption being made - then he would have left one-and-a-half years ago.
"I can remember West Ham away when he wasn't playing (under Jurgen Klopp in 2024). I wasn't there. He didn’t decide to leave. The assumption is that if you don’t play in these games and all of a sudden wants to leave, it is an assumption and maybe it is true or maybe it isn’t. But history has shown is that he did not do that previously and had a great season after that.
"When things like this are announced to the outside world, I don't think it's a surprise for you to hear that there are a lot of discussions, talks going on between him, his agent, the club, me and him, before this comes out in the public.
"But, as I always said, and I'm not going to change on what has been said between the two of us, or between him and the club, that is something I'm not going to share.
"If he wants to share his reasons why he did it then it's up to him, but that's not up to me to speak for him. I hear a lot being said about Liverpool and one of the funny things about Liverpool is that almost everything that is out there is not true."