{"id":178278,"date":"2025-12-06T22:06:07","date_gmt":"2025-12-06T22:06:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/178278\/"},"modified":"2025-12-06T22:06:07","modified_gmt":"2025-12-06T22:06:07","slug":"salah-lashes-out-at-slot-in-astonishing-interview","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/178278\/","title":{"rendered":"Salah lashes out at Slot in astonishing interview"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Mohamed Salah has sensationally claimed he has been &#8220;thrown under the bus&#8221; and has no relationship with Arne Slot as the Liverpool star revealed next week&#8217;s match against Brighton could be his last game at Anfield.<\/p>\n<p>The 33-year-old has established himself as one of the Reds\u2019 greatest ever players since joining from Roma in 2017, winning two Premier League titles and a Champions League among a string of honours.<\/p>\n<p>Salah swept up individual awards last season but has struggled to hit those heights this term, with boss Slot naming him among the substitutes in Liverpool\u2019s last three matches.<\/p>\n<p>The Egypt international was left on the bench as the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rte.ie\/sport\/soccer\/2025\/1206\/1547602-liverpools-woes-continue-with-elland-road-collapse\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Reds drew 3-3 with Leeds at Elland Road<\/a>, where he spoke to the media in an explosive seven-and-a-half minute interview after the match.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I don\u2019t know what to say,&#8221; Salah said. &#8220;It\u2019s funny but I couldn\u2019t believe it. It is a really disappointing result for us as a team because we expect to win a game like that.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Asked by the Press Association what he could not believe, Salah said: &#8220;That I\u2019m sitting on the bench for 90 minutes! The third time on the bench, I think for the first time in my career.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I\u2019m very, very disappointed to be fair. I have done so much for this club down the years and especially last season.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Now I\u2019m sitting on the bench and I don\u2019t 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.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I got a lot of promises in the summer and so far I am on the bench for three games so I can\u2019t say they keep the promise.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I said many times before that I had a good relationship with the manager, and all of a sudden we don\u2019t have any relationship.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I don\u2019t know why but it seems to me, how I see it, that someone doesn\u2019t want me in the club.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;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 \u2013 you guys didn\u2019t know if I would start or not, but I knew.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Yesterday I said to them, come to the Brighton game. I don\u2019t know if I am going to play or not but I am going to enjoy it.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;In my head, I\u2019m going to enjoy that game because I don\u2019t know what is going to happen now.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I will be in Anfield to say goodbye to the fans and go the Africa Cup of Nations. I don\u2019t know what is going to happen when I am there.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>The respect, I want to get. I don&#8217;t have to go every day fighting for my position because I earned it.<\/p>\n<p>Salah, who will join up with Egypt for the Africa Cup of Nations on 15 December, said he does not understand why last season\u2019s best player &#8220;has to defend himself in front of the media and fans&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;It is not acceptable for me,&#8221; he said. &#8220;I don\u2019t know why this is happening to me. I don\u2019t get it. I think if this was somewhere else, every club would protect its player.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;How I see it now is like you throw Mo under the bus because he is the problem in the team now. But I don\u2019t think I am the problem. I have done so much for this club.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The respect, I want to get. I don\u2019t have to go every day fighting for my position because I earned it. I am not bigger than anyone but I earned my position. It\u2019s football. It is what it is.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Asked if this situation hurts, Salah said: &#8220;Absolutely. After what I have done for the club it really hurts.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;You can imagine, really. After going from home to the club and you don\u2019t know if you are starting. I know the club too well, I have been here many years.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Tomorrow (Jamie) Carragher is going to go for me again and again and that\u2019s fine.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Salah sidestepped a question about interest from Saudi Arabia \u2013 &#8220;I don\u2019t want to answer this question, because the club is going to take me to a different direction,&#8221; he said \u2013 and does not know what will happen.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I cannot say it is impossible (to solve), but from what I feel, I have done so much for the club, I love the fans and the club so much,&#8221; he said. &#8220;But I don\u2019t know what is going to happen next.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Salah laughed when asked if he regretted signing a new deal \u2013 &#8220;imagine how bad that I have to answer it, honestly&#8221; \u2013 and insisted there is no issue with his team-mates.<\/p>\n<p>But the Liverpool star has problems with people higher up in the club, including boss Slot.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Yeah, there\u2019s no relationship between us,&#8221; he added. &#8220;It was very good relationship and now all of a sudden there is no relationship.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Mohamed Salah has sensationally claimed he has been &#8220;thrown under the bus&#8221; and has no relationship with Arne&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":178279,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[61,60,112],"class_list":["post-178278","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-sports","tag-ie","tag-ireland","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/178278","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=178278"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/178278\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/178279"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=178278"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=178278"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=178278"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}