JAMIE CARRAGHER has launched a blistering attack on Mo Salah following the Liverpool star’s bombshell rant.
Salah, 33, let rip in the Elland Road mixed zone after being left on the bench during the Reds’ 3-3 draw at Leeds on Saturday.
During his rant, which has seen him dropped entirely for Liverpool’s upcoming clash with Inter Milan, the winger mentioned former Red Carragher.
The Kop superstar said: “I’m sorry, I know the club too well. I’ve been here many years.
“So tomorrow you’re going to find Carragher is going to go for me again, again, again. That’s fine.”
Responding on Sky Sports, Carra pulled no punches, saying: “I thought it was a disgrace what he did after the game.
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“Some people have painted it as an emotional outburst, I don’t think it was.
“I think whenever Mo Salah stops in the mixed zone, which he’s done four times in eight years at Liverpool it’s choreographed between him and his agent to cause maximum damage and to strengthen his own position.”
On the timing of Salah’s comments, Carragher added: “He did that 12 months ago and I called him out on this show about it. He played on the heartstrings of the Liverpool supporters.
“Liverpool were top of the league and he’d scored the wining 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 saying ‘Give Mo his dough’.
“He’s chosen this weekend to do this now and he’s waited for a bad result, they’ve conceded a last minute goal.
“The Liverpool supporters, the manager, the whole club feels like it is in the gutter at the moment, and he’s chosen that time to go for the manager and maybe try and get him sacked.
“That’s the way I felt about it.”
Carragher was also deeply unimpressed by Salah’s claim of being “thrown under the bus”.
“Thrown under the bus?” Carra fumed. “He’s tried to throw the club under the bus twice over the last 12 months.
“With the manager right now, Salah should be doing as much as he can now to try and help the club get out of the worst run of results they’ve had since the 1950s, and he hasn’t done that.”
And referencing Salah’s lack of tracking back, Carragher added: “He’s a legendary figure and all those players get a privilege. Exactly the same one as Salah gets at Liverpool and that’s he doesn’t have to defend. he doesn’t have to chase back.
“That’s what he has at Liverpool but when we are talking about throwing people under the bus, he’s thrown the Liverpool right back under the bus for eight years. Imagine playing behind him for eight years.”
Carra then brutally added: “One thing I want to remind Salah and maybe his agent is that before he come to Liverpool, Salah was known as the guy who failed at Chelsea.
“That’s just a fact. He never won a major trophy before he came to Liverpool.”
The defender-turned-pundit has not been shy in criticising Salah in the past.
Earlier this season, Carragher said on Sky Sports’ Monday Night Football: “On the back of all these Liverpool defeats, it’s always Van Dijk who comes out and speaks. The captain should do that but there should be other players in that dressing room and speaking for the club.
“A year ago this weekend, Mo Salah wasn’t shy in speaking about his own situation and the club not offering him a contract.
“I only ever hear Salah speak when he gets man of the match or when he needs a new contract.
“I would like to see Salah as one of the leaders and legends of Liverpool come out and speak for the team.”
The Liverpool icon has been on the bench for the Reds’ last three Prem matches.
Salah played 45 minutes of the 1-1 draw with Sunderland, in between being left unused at West Ham and Leeds.
His last start came in the 4-1 Champions League defeat to PSV Eindhoven on November 26.
The Anfield ace has four goals in 14 Prem outings this term, with one strike in five Champions League appearances.
On his shock at his current situation, Salah sensationally said on Saturday: “I’m sitting on the bench for 90 minutes, I think that’s the third time I’m on the bench.
“I think it’s the first time in my career but I’m very disappointed. I’m very, very disappointed to be fair.
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“I have done so much for this club, everybody can see that during the years and especially last season.
“Sitting on the bench, I don’t know why, it seems like the club has thrown me under the bus. That’s how I feel it. I think it’s very clear that someone wants me to get all the blame.
“The club promised me in the summer for a lot of promises and nothing. So far, I’m on the bench three games.
“So I can’t say that they keep the promise. I said that many times before, I had a good relationship with the manager and all of a sudden we don’t have any relationship.
“I don’t know why. It seems to me, how I see it, that someone doesn’t want me in the club.”
Boss Slot was quizzed about Salah’s comments ahead of Liverpool’s clash with Inter Milan tomorrow night.
Asked if he felt Salah’s barbs were directed personally at himself, Slot added: “The only one who can answer is Mo himself. I can guess but it’s hard for me to tell who he means.
“We know he’s not travelling with us. That was the only communication from us to him.
“Mo had been respectful to the staff so it was a surprise to me when he gave those comments.
“I’m not sure if he was emotional or not but my reaction is clear. He is not with us tonight.”
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