Mo Salah a disgrace - Liverpool icon slams Egyptian superstar

by Staff Reporter

Tuesday Dec 09, 2025. 15:00

Egypt captain Mohamed Salah’s recent outburst has been branded as ‘a disgrace’ by legendary Liverpool FC defender Jamie Carragher.

The world-class winger has been named among the substitutes on three successive occasions in the Premier League, and was unused in a draw away at Leeds United on 6 December, which angered him.

Following the game, Salah stated in an interview that he felt that Liverpool had ‘thrown [him] under the bus’, and revealed that he had a poor relationship with club head coach Arne Slot.

Carragher, who was Liverpool’s vice-captain for ten years and is the club’s second-longest serving player, making his 737th appearance for Liverpool on 19 May 2013, has reacted to Salah’s comments.

“I thought it was a disgrace what he did after the game. Some people have painted it as an emotional outburst, but I do not think it was,” Carragher said on Sky Sports.

“I think whenever Salah stops in the mix zone, which he’s done four times in eight years at Liverpool, it’s choreographed between him and his agent to cause maximum damage and to strengthen his own position.

“The one line that stands out for me is ‘thrown under the bus.’ He’s thrown the club under the bus twice in the last 12 months. With the manager right now, he should be doing as much as he can to help the club get out of the worst run they’ve had since the 1950s and he hasn’t done that.

“When we are talking about throwing people under the bus, he’s thrown every Liverpool right-back under the bus for the eight years. Can you imagine playing behind him for eight years?

“But we accept it because he’s a superstar and he’s scored 250 goals and he’s given me as a Liverpool supporter some of the greatest nights of my life.

“You weren’t a big star before you came to Liverpool, you haven’t really won much for Egypt, no matter how big you are, you need help from your teammates, your manager and fans, it’s important that he remembers that,” Carragher said. “When he talks after Leeds, it’s all about me, me, me.”

Salah has netted four goals in 13 Premier League appearances this season, trained with the first team at the AXA Training Centre on Monday, but he was excluded from the squad that travelled to Italy for Tuesday’s UEFA Champions League clash against Inter Milan.

Carragher added, “I’d remind Salah and maybe his agent that before he came to Liverpool he was known as the man who failed at Chelsea, that’s just a fact. He’d never won a major trophy before he came to Liverpool.

“He’s also the greatest player his country have ever had in Egypt. Egypt are the most successful country in the Africa Cup of Nations [AFCON] and he’s going there in a couple of weeks. Salah’s never won the AFCON.

“That’s not me trying to put Mo Salah down as a player. I’ve just said he’s one of the best players in the world over the last eight years, very few better. But, what it tells Salah and his agent is that it’s not about an individual.”

Salah will be part of the Egypt squad that will compete in the 2025 Africa Cup of Nations (AFCON) finals, which will begin on December 21 and end on January 18.