Carragher went on to say after seeing Gary Neville suggest that Salah should have been introduced during a dramatic clash with Leeds at Elland Road: “These types of players who have these big egos, I get that [talking out]. But that’s probably why it’s taken so long to take him out.
“Earlier in the season, he was coming off in Europe; that was him getting rested. This was leaving him out. We always talk about a manager should never criticise his players in public. Can you imagine if Slot had said about Salah after the Leeds game, ‘he’s been awful all season, he doesn’t get back, he doesn’t score goals’? We would have gone, ‘oh my god you can’t say this, you can’t say that’.
“But on the other hand, there’s people defending the interview? If this was someone else, saying it about Salah, there would be uproar and rightly so. You can’t say that. If this is someone who speaks to the media a lot and he’s always in there, he doesn’t speak to them. So when he does speak, he knows exactly what he’s saying, he’s clever.”