Mohamed Salah claims he has been “thrown beneath the bus” by Liverpool and says he has no relationship with boss Arne Slot.
Salah failed to return off the bench as Liverpool have been denied a win at Leeds this night, Ao Tanaka scoring an injury-time leveller to provide the hosts a degree in a pulsating 3-3 draw.
Hugo Ekitike began and Alexander Isak got here on as a late substitute however Salah – a two-time Premier League champion with the Reds – didn’t seem.
The Egypt worldwide mentioned afterwards: “I don’t know what to say. It’s humorous however I couldn’t consider it. It’s a actually disappointing end result for us as a staff as a result of we anticipate to win a sport like that.”
Requested to clarify what he couldn’t consider, Salah added: “That I’m sitting on the bench for 90 minutes. The third time on the bench, I feel for the primary time in my profession.
“I’m very, very disenchanted to be truthful. I’ve accomplished a lot for this membership down the years and particularly final season.
“Now I’m sitting on the bench and I don’t know why. It looks like the membership has thrown me beneath the bus. That’s how I’m feeling. I feel it is rather clear that somebody wished me to get all the blame.
“I acquired numerous guarantees in the summertime and to date I’m on the bench for 3 video games so I can’t say they maintain the promise.”
We don’t have a relationship – Salah on Slot
Salah signed a brand new, two-year deal in the summertime after an excellent season in 2024/25, Slot’s first on the membership, however says his relationship with the Dutchman isn’t what it was.
“I mentioned many instances earlier than that I had relationship with the supervisor, and rapidly we don’t have any relationship,” mentioned the previous Roma and Chelsea ahead.
“I don’t know why but it surely appears to me, how I see it, that somebody doesn’t need me within the membership.
“This membership, I at all times help it. My youngsters will at all times help it. I like the membership a lot I’ll at all times do. I referred to as my mum yesterday – you guys didn’t know if I’d begin or not, however I knew.”
I don’t know what’s going to occur – Salah
Liverpool host Brighton subsequent weekend after which Salah is because of be part of up with the Egypt squad for the Africa Cup of Nations.
And he even prompt it might be his final look for the membership.
He mentioned: “Yesterday I mentioned to them [my family], come to the Brighton sport. I don’t know if I’m going to play or not however I’m going to take pleasure in it.
“In my head, I’m going to take pleasure in that sport as a result of I don’t know what’s going to occur now.
“I shall be in Anfield to say goodbye to the followers and go the Africa Cup of Nations. I don’t know what’s going to occur when I’m there.”
‘I’m not the issue’
Salah is changing into uninterested in ideas he’s a “downside”.
“It isn’t acceptable for me,” he mentioned. “I don’t know why that is occurring to me. I don’t get it. I feel if this was elsewhere, each membership would defend its participant.
“How I see it now could be such as you throw Mo beneath the bus as a result of he’s the issue within the staff now. However I don’t assume I’m the issue. I’ve accomplished a lot for this membership.
“The respect, I need to get. I don’t must go day-after-day preventing for my place as a result of I earned it. I’m not greater than anybody however I earned my place. It’s soccer. It’s what it’s.
“Tomorrow (Jamie) Carragher goes to go for me repeatedly and that’s effective.”
