{"id":193028,"date":"2025-12-20T06:52:09","date_gmt":"2025-12-20T06:52:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/193028\/"},"modified":"2025-12-20T06:52:09","modified_gmt":"2025-12-20T06:52:09","slug":"teammate-reveals-mohamed-salah-apology-as-liverpool-close-ranks","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/193028\/","title":{"rendered":"Teammate reveals Mohamed Salah apology as Liverpool close ranks"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"Mohamed<\/p>\n

\nMohamed Salah, at Liverpool’s Premier League match against Brighton and Hove Albion at Anfield, Liverpool,December 13, 2025.
\nPhoto: AFP\n<\/p>\n

Egyptian forward Mohamed Salah apologised to his Liverpool teammates following his recent explosive interview, midfielder Curtis Jones has said.<\/p>\n

Jones told Sky Sports in an interview published on Friday that Salah had addressed the squad to explain his comments – stressing that the situation did not affect the dressing room – and that the players remain united.<\/p>\n

“Mo is his own man and he can say his own stuff. He apologised to us and was like, ‘If I’ve affected anybody or made you feel any sort of way, I apologise’. That’s the man that he is,” Jones said.<\/p>\n

In his incendiary comments after the Premier League draw with Leeds United on 6 December<\/a>, the 33-year-old Egyptian lashed out at the club and coach Arne Slot, telling journalists he felt he had been made a scapegoat for their poor start to the season and suggested that he may not have long left at Anfield.<\/p>\n

Liverpool, champions last season, sit seventh in the Premier League standings with 26 points, 10 behind leaders Arsenal.<\/p>\n

Earlier on Friday, Slot said there were no lingering issues with Salah, who was omitted from the squad for their 1-0 Champions League win at Inter Milan on 9 December.<\/p>\n

The forward came off the bench and provided an assist in Liverpool’s 2-0 win over Brighton & Hove Albion last weekend before leaving for the Africa Cup of Nations.<\/p>\n

– Reuters<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Mohamed Salah, at Liverpool’s Premier League match against Brighton and Hove Albion at Anfield, Liverpool,December 13, 2025. Photo:…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":193029,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[48,47,111,43,139,69,49,46,44,45,213],"class_list":{"0":"post-193028","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-sports","8":"tag-audio","9":"tag-current-affairs","10":"tag-new-zealand","11":"tag-news","12":"tag-newzealand","13":"tag-nz","14":"tag-podcasts","15":"tag-public-radio","16":"tag-radio-new-zealand","17":"tag-rnz","18":"tag-sports"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/193028","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=193028"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/193028\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/193029"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=193028"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=193028"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=193028"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}