{"id":501299,"date":"2026-03-29T05:50:08","date_gmt":"2026-03-29T05:50:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/501299\/"},"modified":"2026-03-29T05:50:08","modified_gmt":"2026-03-29T05:50:08","slug":"andy-robertson-backtracks-on-mohamed-salah-liverpool-comment-i-tell-him-that","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/501299\/","title":{"rendered":"Andy Robertson backtracks on Mohamed Salah Liverpool comment – ‘I tell him that’"},"content":{"rendered":"

Mohamed Salah announced he is leaving Liverpool earlier this week after reaching an agreement to end his contract a year early\"Liverpool's<\/p>\n

Mohamed Salah and Andy Robertson applaud the Liverpool fans after they both scored in the FA Cup win at Wolves earlier this month (Image: Darren Staples \/ AFP via Getty Images)<\/p>\n

Andy Robertson believes Mohamed Salah will leave as one of Liverpool’s greatest players \u2013 but Sir Kenny Dalglish pips his team-mate to the prize of being the club’s best.<\/p>\n

Salah announced on Tuesday night that he will leave the Reds at the end of the season<\/a> after an agreement to end his contract was reached.<\/p>\n

The 33-year-old arrived at Liverpool<\/a> from Roma in 2017 and has scored 255 goals to make him the club\u2019s third all-time leading goalscorer. Salah<\/a> has also lifted two Premier League<\/a> titles along with a Champions League<\/a>, an FA Cup<\/a> and two Carabao Cups during his nine years on Merseyside.<\/p>\n

And Robertson appeared to suggest the forward would depart Anfield<\/a> as the club\u2019s greatest ever player in a social media post on Tuesday night.<\/p>\n

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But when asked to clarify his comments, Robertson declared: “I think [Salah’s] definitely one of the greatest. I would say Kenny probably pips him to that and I tell him that most days.<\/p>\n

\u201cFor me, Kenny’s the greatest player of all time for Scotland and he’s the greatest player of all time for Liverpool. Behind that, you have three or four players that come into conversation of who’s there and Mo Salah definitely comes into that conversation.<\/p>\n

“It’s just an absolute credit to him to be in even the conversation with Kenny Dalglish, Steven Gerrard<\/a>, Ian Rush, people like that. For Mo to be in that same sentence is an absolute credit to him for what he’s done over these last nine years.”<\/p>\n

Robertson<\/a>, who is out of contract this summer, backs Salah’s decision to move on from the Reds nine years after they both joined in the summer of 2017.<\/p>\n

“To be able to call him a team-mate but also call him a friend, and he’s been a close friend of mine for the last nine years, it’s an absolute privilege to have played with him,” said the Scotland captain.<\/p>\n

“It’ll be sad, obviously, the next couple of weeks of his farewell, but he’ll get the send-off he deserves because he’s a Premier League legend, but he’s definitely a Liverpool legend.”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Mohamed Salah announced he is leaving Liverpool earlier this week after reaching an agreement to end his contract…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":501300,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[70167,59,134,2227,101,56,54,55],"class_list":{"0":"post-501299","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-sports","8":"tag-andy-robertson","9":"tag-gb","10":"tag-liverpool-fc","11":"tag-mohamed-salah","12":"tag-sports","13":"tag-uk","14":"tag-united-kingdom","15":"tag-unitedkingdom"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/501299","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=501299"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/501299\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/501300"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=501299"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=501299"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=501299"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}