Salah says he has been thrown under the bus by Liverpool
By BBC, December 7, 2025Mohamed Salah says he feels like he has been thrown under the bus by Liverpool and that his relationship with head coach Arne Slot has broken down.
Salah was an unused substitute on Saturday, December 6, 2025, 3-3 draw at Leeds United – the third straight game the Egypt forward has started on the bench.
After the game, the scorer of 250 goals in 420 Liverpool appearances said in an extraordinary interview with journalists: “I think it is very clear that someone wanted me to get all of the blame.
“I said many times before that I had a good relationship with the manager, and all of a sudden, we don’t have any relationship.
“I don’t know why, but it seems to me, how I see it, that someone doesn’t want me in the club.
“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.
“This club, I will always support it. My kids will always support it. I love the club so much and I always will.
“It [the situation] is not acceptable to me, to be fair. I don’t get it. It’s like I’m being thrown more under the bus. I don’t think I’m the problem. I have done so much for this club.
“I don’t 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’s football. It is what it is.”
Salah, who is going to the Africa Cup of Nations on December 15, 2025, added that he was unsure about his Liverpool future, despite signing a new two-year contract in April.
Salah, 33, scored 29 times in the 2024-25 Premier League as the Reds won the title in Slot’s first season in charge.
However, he has struggled for form since Liverpool has been unable to match the heights of last term.
Salah, who was brought to the club from Roma by Jurgen Klopp in 2017, has scored just four times in 13 top-flight appearances this season.
The Saudi Pro League has for a long time held ambitions to add Salah – arguably the most recognisable Middle Eastern player on the planet – to a roster of global superstars that includes the likes of Cristiano Ronaldo and Sadio Mane.