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Liverpool’s Mohamed Salah said he had been “thrown under the bus” as he tore into the club over his treatment after watching from the bench as his side twice threw away the lead in a 3-3 Premier League draw with Leeds United on Saturday.
The 33-year-old Egyptian lashed out at the club and manager Arne Slot, telling journalists he felt he had been scapegoated for a poor start to the season and suggesting that he may not have long left at Anfield.
Liverpool star Mohamed Salah says he has been thrown under a bus.Credit: AP
Salah has become an iconic figure in his eight years at Liverpool. He has won two Premier League titles and scored 250 goals for the club.
“I’m very, very disappointed to be fair. I have done so much for this club, everybody can see that during the years and especially last season,” Salah said in the post-match mixed zone.
“I don’t know, it seems like the club is throwing me under the bus. That’s how I felt it, how I feel it.
“I think it’s very clear that someone wants me to get all the blame. The club promised me in the summer, a lot of promises and nothing so far.”
Speaking after the draw, Slot said he had left Salah on the bench because he felt the team needed something different.
“We were 2-0 up, we were 3-2 up. At that moment in time, it was more about controlling the game, and we didn’t need a goal at that moment in time,” he said.
“Normally, when you need a goal, like last week against Sunderland, I brought Mo on. We needed different players like Wataru (Endo) when we needed to bring the win over the line; he (Endo) gave everything.
“We have to accept the situation we are in. The short-term future of Mo is that he is going to the Africa Cup of Nations, but before that, we play Inter Milan,” he concluded.
Liverpool great Mohamed Salah was furious after not getting on the field during Liverpool’s draw with Leeds United.Credit: Getty Images
Salah scored 34 goals and had 18 assists in 52 games across all competitions last season, but with his side floundering, he has managed five goals and three assists in 19 games so far this season.
The forward indicated that his relationship with Slot had broken down completely.
“I had a good relationship with the manager, and all of a sudden, we don’t have any relationship. I don’t know why, it seems to me, how I see it, someone doesn’t want me in the club,” he said.
Since joining Liverpool from AS Roma in 2017, Salah has become the club’s third-highest scorer behind Ian Rush and Roger Hunt, but it appears that he feels his time on Merseyside may be
coming to an end.
“I don’t think I’m the problem. I have done so much for this club, with the respect I want to get. And I don’t have to go every day fighting for my position because I’ve earned it,” Salah said.
“I don’t know what’s going to happen now, so I’m just going to be in Anfield, say goodbye to the fans (before) going to Africa Cup (of Nations), because I don’t know what’s going to happen when I’m there … it’s not acceptable for me, to be fair. I don’t know why that happened. Always to me, I don’t get it.”
Liverpool visit Inter Milan in the Champions League on Tuesday before hosting Brighton & Hove Albion on Saturday.
Salah says he and manager Arne Slot no longer have a relationship.Credit: AP
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