Salah goes on sensational outburst after Leeds Draw and hints at Brighton being his last-ever game for Liverpool.
Mohamed Salah says ‘I’ve been thrown under the bus’ and signals Liverpool exit.
Mohamed Salah has spoken out in frustration after being dropped from Liverpool’s starting XI for a third straight match, claiming the club has unfairly shifted the blame onto him. Following the champions’ draw at Leeds, he said he feels he has been turned into a convenient fall guy for the team’s sluggish start to the season — comments that have also raised serious questions about whether his long-term future at Anfield is now in doubt.
“I can’t believe … I’m sitting on the bench for 90 minutes,” the Egypt international said. “The third time on the bench, I think for the first time in my career. I’m very, very disappointed. I have done so much for this club down the years and especially last season. Now I’m sitting on the bench and I don’t know why.
“It seems like the club has thrown me under the bus. That is how I am feeling. I think it is very clear that someone wanted me to get all of the blame.” He refused to specify who that person was.
Salah’s track record at Liverpool speaks for itself. He has finished as the Premier League’s top scorer four times and swept up both the PFA and Football Writers’ Player of the Year awards last season while playing a key role in delivering another league title for the club. Yet now, he has hinted that the upcoming home match against Brighton might be his final appearance in a Liverpool shirt. After that game, he is set to join Egypt for the Africa Cup of Nations in Morocco — and his comments strongly suggest that a January exit from Anfield is firmly on the table.
“I said many times before that I had a good relationship with the manager and all of a sudden, we don’t have any relationship,” Salah said after Liverpool’s 3-3 draw at Elland Road on Saturday. “I don’t know why, but it seems to me, how I see it, that someone doesn’t want me in the club.
“This club, I always support it. My kids will always support it. I love the club so much I will always do. I called my mum yesterday – you guys [journalists] didn’t know if I would start or not, but I knew. Yesterday I said [to my mum]: ‘Come to the Brighton game. I don’t know if I am going to play or not but I am going to enjoy it.’ In my head, I’m going to enjoy that game because I don’t know what is going to happen now. I will be in Anfield to say goodbye to the fans and go the Africa Cup. I don’t know what is going to happen when I am there.”