Former Liverpool defender Jamie Carragher referred to as present Reds winger Mohamed Salah “egocentric” over the participant’s response to his contract deadlock.
Carragher’s remarks got here on Sky Sports activities’ Monday Night time Soccer, on which he was a pundit, and was requested for his opinion on an interview given by the Egyptian after Liverpool’s 3-2 win away at Southampton, the place he scored twice.
The winger’s contract is because of expire on the finish of the season, together with his future past that also up within the air.
Jamie Carragher urges Mohamed Salah to place Liverpool earlier than himself
Within the authentic clip, requested by reporters about his contract state of affairs outdoors St Mary’s Stadium, Salah stated: “Nicely, we’re nearly in December and I haven’t acquired any affords but to remain within the membership. I’m in all probability extra out than in.
“I’m not going to retire quickly, so I’m simply taking part in, specializing in the season and I’m making an attempt to win the Premier League and hopefully the Champions League. I’m disenchanted, however we are going to see.”
Requested about these quotes on MNF, Carragher responded: “I need to say I’m very disenchanted with Mo Salah. Liverpool have Actual Madrid subsequent week and Man Metropolis on the weekend.
“If he retains placing feedback out, his agent places out cryptic messages, that’s egocentric. That is considering themselves and never the soccer membership.”
It’s not the primary time Salah – listed because the Premier League’s best-ever winger by FourFourTwo – has opened up about his future this season, making related feedback following the Reds 3-0 win in opposition to Manchester United at Previous Trafford in September, a notable sequence of occasions attributable to Salah’s reported tendency to keep away from talking to the media.
The ahead, at present on 12 targets and ten assists in 18 appearances throughout all competitions, joins Liverpool heavyweights Virgil van Dijk and Trent Alexander-Arnold in having contracts attributable to expire in the summertime.
In FourFourTwo’s opinion, it’s clear that Salah desires to remain Liverpool primarily based on the eye he’s drawing to the state of affairs – his authentic feedback following the sport in opposition to the Saints got here outdoors the stadium, the place he might simply have walked on – so the Merseyside membership should do all they’ll to maintain him on.
BBC Sport reported that, opposite to Salah’s feedback alluding that it hasn’t been addressed, membership sources have revealed that discussions between them and the participant’s agent, Ramy Abbas Issa, are nonetheless occurring and have been optimistic.
Regardless of the sticking level is, the membership should discover a approach via it quickly. There’s no denying Salah’s affect this season, and regardless of now being 32 years previous, there’s no signal the Egypt worldwide is slowing down.
