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Mohamed Salah hinted that he may have played his last game for Liverpool after he was benched for a third successive Premier League game.
The Egyptian had lined up in each of Liverpool's Premier League games since Arne Slot joined the club last summer, up until last weekend's game at West Ham.
Salah was also left out against Sunderland in midweek, and found himself among the substitutes again for the trip in West Yorkshire.
After the game against Leeds, Salah stopped to speak to reporters in the Elland Road mixed zone, ranting for several minutes about his situation at Liverpool.
Asked during the interview whether he might have played his last game for Liverpool, Salah said: "In football you never know. I don’t accept this situation. I have done so much for this club."
Salah was also asked whether a transfer to Saudi Arabia was still a possibility. "I don’t want to answer this question," he answered, "because the club is going to take me to a different direction."
Salah has been linked with a move to the Saudi Pro League for the last few years, and Liverpool rejected a huge bid for the Egyptian from Al Ittihad in 2023.
Extraordinarily, Salah said he no longer has a relationship with Liverpool head coach Arne Slot and claimed that somebody in the Liverpool hierarchy wants to force him out of the club.
"I got a lot of promises in the summer and so far I am in the bench for three games so I can't say they keep the promise," Salah said.
"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.
"This club, I always support it. My kids will always support it. I love the club so much I will always do. I called my mum yesterday - you guys didn't know if I would start or not, but I knew.
"Yesterday I said to them, come to the Brighton game [at Anfield next weekend]. I don't know if I am going to play or not but I am going to enjoy it. In my heads, I'm going to enjoy that game because I don't know what is going to happen now.
"I will be in Anfield to say goodbye to the fans and go the Africa Cup of Nations. I don't know what is going to happen when I am there."
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