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Liverpool boss Arne Slot breaks silence on Mo Salah row as dressing room reaction emerges


Liverpool manager Arne Slot has dismissed the frenzy surrounding Mohamed Salah’s bombshell contract comments on Sunday. And Andy Robertson has offered the view from the dressing room ahead of Wednesday’s blockbuster Champions League clash against Real Madrid.

After his second-half brace clinched a 3-2 comeback victory at Southampton, Salah stopped in the mixed zone for just the third time in his eight-year Liverpool career.

The 32-year-old winger would go on to conduct a bombshell interview at St Mary’s, admitting he was “disappointed” not to have been offered a new contract yet.

After his second-half brace clinched a 3-2 comeback victory at Southampton on Sunday, Salah stopped in the mixed zone for just the third time in his eight-year Liverpool career.

The 32-year-old winger would go on to drop a bombshell set of quotes at St Mary’s, admitting he was “disappointed” not to have been offered a new contract yet.

Salah also claimed that he was “probably more out than in,” suggesting that he could leave Anfield as a free agent next summer.

Liverpool icon Jamie Carragher is among the former players who have criticised Salah’s actions, branding the Egyptian hero “selfish” for diverting the focus from a mounting Premier League title push.

“I must say, I am very disappointed with Mo Salah for that interview yesterday, last night, after the game, and it comes out today,” Carragher explained on Monday Night Football.

“Liverpool have got Real Madrid midweek, and they’ve got Manchester City at the weekend. That’s the story for Liverpool right now.

“And Mo Salah, we’re all quite aware, certainly the local reporters are in Liverpool, that in the seven years he’s been at the football club, he stopped in the mixed zone twice, which is absolutely fine.

“But he decided to stop for the third time away at Southampton on the back of winning Liverpool the game and putting that out.

“Now, the most important thing for Liverpool Football Club this season is not the future of Mo Salah, it’s not the future of Virgil van Dijk, and it’s not the future of Trent Alexander-Arnold.

“The most important thing is Liverpool winning the Premier League. That is more important than any of those players.

“And if he continues to put comments out, or his agent keeps putting cryptic tweets out, that’s selfish. That’s thinking about themselves and not the football club.”

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