Salah slams Liverpool for 'throwing him under the bus'

LEEDS, England, Dec 6 : Liverpool's Mohamed Salah said he had been "thrown under the bus" as he tore into the club over his treatment after watching from the bench as his side twice threw away the lead in a 3-3 Premier League draw with Leeds United on Saturday.  

The 33-year-old Egyptian lashed out at the club and coach Arne Slot, telling journalists he felt he had been scapegoated for their poor start to the season and suggesting that he may not have long left at Anfield. 

Salah has become an iconic figure in an eight-year spell at Liverpool in which he has won two Premier League titles and scored 250 goals in all competitions for the club. 

"I'm very, very disappointed to be fair. I have done so much for this club, everybody can see that during the years and especially last season," Salah told reporters in the post-match mixed zone.  

"I don't know, it seems like the club is throwing me under the bus. That's how I felt it, 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, a lot of promises and nothing so far."

Speaking after the draw, Slot said he had left Salah on the bench because he felt the team needed something different. 

"We were 2-0 up, we were 3-2 up. At that moment in time it was more about controlling the game and we didn't need a goal at that moment in time," he said. 

"Normally when you need a goal, like last week against Sunderland, I brought Mo on. We needed different players like Wataru (Endo) when we needed to bring the win over the line, he (Endo) gave everything.

"We have to accept the situation we are in. The short-term future of Mo is that he is going to the Africa Cup of Nations, but before that we play Inter Milan," he concluded. 

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