Jamie Carragher calls Mo Salah “selfish” amid contract comments made by the Egyptian forward the other day.
Jamie Carragher believes that Mo Salah was out of line to make those comments regarding his contract standoff with Liverpool.
After Sunday’s victory over Southampton, Salah, whose current contract expires at the end of the season, told reporters that he is “probably more out than in” and has not yet received an offer of new terms.
With 12 goals in all competitions this season, the 32-year-old is Liverpool’s leading scorer. He scored twice against the Saints to put the team eight points ahead of the Saints in the Premier League.
“I must say I am very disappointed with Mo Salah,” Carragher told Sky Sports’ Monday Night Football. “Liverpool have Real Madrid midweek [in the Champions League] and Man City at the weekend. That’s the story right now.”
He added: “If he keeps putting comments out, his agent puts out cryptic messages, that is selfish. That is thinking about themselves and not the football club.”
Although Liverpool has not publicly responded to Salah’s comments, a club source informed BBC Sport that the club is in positive communication with Salah’s agent, Ramy Abbas Issa.
Chris Sutton stated on BBC Radio 5 Live’s Monday Night Club that Salah’s choice to speak with reporters in the mixed zone regarding his future indicates that he wants to remain at Anfield.
“It wasn’t one of those where Mo Salah was asked to talk, he actually made an approach and wanted to speak to a couple of press guys to get things off his chest,” said the former Blackburn and Chelsea striker. “So in that respect it says to me that he wants to stay.”
The Athletic’s Rory Smith added: “It strikes me that he is making it very clear to the Liverpool fans that he wants to stay and that if he doesn’t end up staying that it’s not really a lack of intent on his part.
“The problem will be his age. Liverpool will be looking at the vast data set you have of footballers over the last 20, 30 years, which suggests that at some point in your mid-30s your performances do dip. They will wonder whether is it worth committing £300,000 a week or so to a player who might only have another year at this level.
“Or maybe he will have another two years at this level? Or another five or six? That’s the gamble Liverpool have to take.”