MOHAMED Salah has claimed that he has been mistreated by Liverpool and made a scapegoat for the club’s poor form.
The Egypt forward added in an interview tonight that his relationship with head coach Arne Slot had broken down.
Salah was an unused substitute in tonight’s 3-3 English Premier League draw at Leeds United – the third straight game he has started on the bench.
After the match, the scorer of 250 goals in 420 Liverpool appearances said in an extraordinary interview with journalists: “I think it is very clear that somebody wants me to take all the blame.
“I’ve said a few times before that I have a good relationship with the manager and now all of a sudden we have no relationship. I don’t know why.
“It seems like the club are throwing me under the bus – that’s how I feel.
“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 fight every day for my position because I earn it. I earned my position.”
Salah, 33, scored 29 times in the 2024-2025 Premier League as Liverpool won the title in Slot’s first season in charge.
However, he has struggled for form since as Liverpool have 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.
After the Leeds game – when Liverpool led 2-0 and then 3-2 before conceding a 96th-minute equaliser – Slot told Sky Sports why he did not use Salah at Elland Road.
“It was more about controlling the game [at 3-2] and we didn’t need a goal,” said Slot. “Normally when you need a goal, like last week against Sunderland, I brought Mo on.”
Salah, third on Liverpool’s all-time list of scorers behind Ian Rush (346) and Roger Hunt (285), made his most recent start in the 4-1 UEFA Champions League home defeat by PSV Eindhoven on November 26.