Every word Jamie Carragher said on Mohamed Salah after being called out in Liverpool outburst

Liverpool legend Jamie Carragher launched a passionate response to Mohamed Salah on Monday as he slammed the winger for his outburst against the club and Arne Slot.

Salah hit out at Liverpool, accusing it of “throwing him under the bus” and suggesting that someone inside the club wanted him out, while also claiming that his relationship with head coach Slot had broken down in an apparent ultimatum to the powers that be at Anfield over both of their futures.

Having suggested that he could play his final game for the club this week, Salah has subsequently been dropped from the Reds’ squad for tomorrow’s Champions League clash with Inter Milan, despite having been involved in training on Monday.

Whether he will play another game for the club remains to be seen, with the 33-year-old set to depart for the Africa Cup of Nations next week, which could potentially see him miss eight games before he returns - by which time, the January transfer window would be open.

During his tirade, Salah also took aim at Carragher, saying the former defender would “go for me again and again.”

Carragher (JC) got his opportunity to respond as he appeared on Sky Sports’ Monday Night Football, with the former defender pulling no punches in a conversation with host Dave Jones (DJ).

Every word Jamie Carragher said on Mohamed Salah

JC: "I thought it was a disgrace what he did after the game. Some people have painted it as an emotional outburst, I don’t think it was.

"I think whenever Mo Salah stops in a mixed zone, which he’s done four times in eight years at Liverpool, it’s choreographed with him and his agent to cause maximum damage, and strengthen his own position.

"He did that 12 months ago, and I called him out on this show about it, and he played on the heart strings of Liverpool supporters. Liverpool were top of the league, he’d scored the winning goal at Southampton, that was the time to come out and put pressure on the Liverpool ownership.

"So for the rest of the season, you have banners in the crowd: ‘Give Mo his dough’. He’s chosen this weekend to do this now, and he’s waited I think for a bad result for Liverpool, concede a last-minute goal, Liverpool supporters, the manager, everyone involved in the club feels like they’re in the gutter at the moment, and he’s chose that time to go for the manager, and maybe try and get him sacked. That’s the way I felt about it.

“The one line that stands out for me is ‘thrown under the bus’. He’s tried to throw the club under the bus twice in the last 12 months with the situations that I’ve just mentioned.

“Now, going after the owners initially, these are owners that have been paying him hundreds of thousands of pounds for six years. He’s complained, a year ago, because they haven’t given him a contract at the age of 32, more than entitled to do that.

“With the manager now, he should be doing as much as he can to help the club get out of the worst run of results they’ve had since the 1950s, and he hasn’t done that.

“When I’ve thought about it over the weekend, and I’ve put myself in Salah’s position, or how I was as a player, I’m not Mo Salah. Mo Salah is a world-renonwned player, who is famous around the world, and should those players be treated differently? I think they should, I think they should be treated differently.

“And when you think of the players in that bracket over the last eight years, I would say Messi, Ronaldo, Mbappe. I wouldn’t put Salah alongside them, but he’s very close for what he’s done for Liverpool, so a legendary figure, and all those players, I think, get a privilege, exactly the same one Mo Salah gets at Liverpool.

“He doesn’t have to defend. He doesn’t have to chase back. So that’s the privilege he has with Liverpool.

“But when we’re talking about throwing people under the bus, he’s threw the Liverpool right-back under the bus for eight years. Could you imagine playing behind him for eight years? But we accept it because he’s a superstar, and he scores 250 goals, and he’s given me, as a Liverpool supporter, some of the greatest nights of my life watching him and what he’s done, and that’s why we accept it.

“But, also then, when you think of the ego of these type of players - Ronaldo, Messi, Mbappe, Mo Salah - I think they have a feeling that the success of a football club is down to them. I have no problem with that, because I think that drives them on to score more goals and get more success, and it benefits Liverpool.

“It then becomes a problem when you’re in a situation like this, and when Mo Salah’s talking about how many goals he’s scored, ‘I’ve got more goals than anyone in the Premier League, what I did last season’, he’s always speaking about himself.

“One thing I sort of just want to remind Mo Salah and maybe his agent is that before he came to Liverpool, Mo Salah was known as the guy 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, in the Africa Cup of Nations, are the most successful nation. He’s going there in a couple of weeks. Mo Salah’s never won the AFCON.

“That is 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 in the last eight years, very few better. But what it tells Mo Salah and his agent is it’s not about an individual. You weren’t a big star before you came to Liverpool, you haven’t really won anything with Egypt anyway, and all that’s telling you is no matter how good a player you are, you need help from your teammates, your manager, and fans, and I think that’s really important that he remembers that.

“When he’s talking after the game there in the mixed zone, all it’s about is me, me, me.”

DJ: “You will be aware Jamie, I’m sure as well, that there will be those listening you to speak passionately there that say that Jamie Carragher was always going to attack Mo Salah or criticize Mo Salah tonight. Mo Salah said it himself didn’t he after game?”

JC: “Have I ever criticized Mo Salah on the pitch?”

DJ: “Well, a couple of weeks ago, you said his legs had gone.”

JC: “No, I don’t class that as… that’s something that happens to every player. That’s not a criticism of him as a player.”

“I’ve never criticized him for not working back, I’ve never criticized him when he’s gone for games without scoring, I’ve never criticized him when he hasn’t passed to someone when he should pass to people at times, because he’s an absolute legend at the club, and what you get from him, you have to put up with certain bits.

“I think some of the criticism this season of Mo Salah has been excessive. I’ve said that publicly, but I will go after Mo Salah when he tries to throw my club under the bus off the pitch and just think about himself, so I certainly will do that.”

DJ: “What do you think he should have done, Jamie, there?”

JC: “What he should have done?”

DJ: “In terms of this season, in terms of how it’s played out. He’s such a proud guy, as you say, he’s got this huge ego, and he’s been left on the bench for three games.”

JC: “Okay, let’s understand - number one, Arne Slot, right? Arne Slot, three games before this run of three games has conceded 10 goals in three games, one of them against PSV. Salah was embarrassing in terms of the challenges he puts in.

“He then goes to West Ham away. Nuno team, big on set-pieces, okay, what do we need to do? We need to keep a clean sheet, that’s all he cares about. What’s the one thing you’re going to do as a manager?

“You’re going to take out the one player in your team who you’ve allowed not to defend, okay? So that happens.

“You play Sunderland at home. I would’ve played him, but it’s understandable you keep the same team. Okay, what does he do? He brings him on at half-time.

“You then go to the away game, okay? So West Ham away, and Leeds away. Why would you bring him on when you’re winning those games? You don’t need a goal, you need not to concede, so if you bring Salah on, you’re bringing on a guy who can’t defend set-pieces, and who doesn’t run back.

“The one time I really wanted to be critical, and I held back, this season about Mo Salah on the pitch - as I said before, I've never been critical about him on the pitch. He is a legend of the club, right, his legacy is there.

“If he doesn't score another goal or make another assist for this club, I don't care. He's been amazing.

“Where he really let himself down in my eyes was this season in Frankfurt and another game, where there's a guy who's starting for Liverpool who needs a goal more than anyone, Florian Wirtz.

“Instead of just being a great player for the club, be a great ambassador for the club, and roll that ball to him for an easy tap-in, and go over and give him a hug and a kiss and say 'you know what, you're the guy who's going to take this Liverpool team forward. I don't need any more goals.'

“I've seen Barnes at the end, I've seen Rush at the end, I've seen Steven Gerrard at the end. Do you think they were the same players in their pomp? Of course they weren't. Do supporters think any differently of them now when they see them? They say no, you were the top five or six players to play for Liverpool, and the same will be said of Salah.

“So in terms of on the pitch, the one criticism I've got, help the other players, help Florian Wirtz, help Isak, don't be obsessed with your own numbers, and don't, as I've said, what he's done off the pitch, I think the club have made the right decision in terms of him not going abroad.

“Whether he will play for Liverpool again, I don't know. I hope he does, because he's one of the greatest players we've ever had, but if you continue like that and statements like that, if he doesn't play, as I've said, who knows.”