LEEDS, England (AP) — Mohamed Salah cast doubt on his Liverpool future on Saturday, saying he felt like he's been “thrown under the bus” by the Premier League champion.
Salah spoke out after being dropped for the third game in succession and was an unused substitute as Liverpool drew at Leeds 3-3.
“I’m very, very disappointed to be fair. I have done so much for this club down the years and especially last season," the Egypt international told media. “Now I’m sitting on the bench and I don’t know why. It seems like the club has thrown me under the bus. That is how I am feeling. I think it is very clear that someone wanted me to get all of the blame."
Salah has won two Premier League titles and the Champions League during a trophy-laden eight years at Anfield, and signed a two-year contract extension in April just before he received his second Premier League player of the season award.
But his comments raise questions about his future after a disappointing start to the season for him and the club as its title defense has unraveled with just two wins in their last 10 games.
Coach Arne Slot addressed the decision to leave Salah out for the third time in a row after the draw at Leeds, saying: “We have to accept the situation we are in and I make my choices based on that.”
Now the 33-year-old Salah says the relationship with Slot has broken down.
“I got a lot of promises in the summer and so far I am on the bench for three games so I can’t say they keep the promise," he 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."
Salah is due to go to the Africa Cup of Nations this month and said he didn't know what would happen while he was away.
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