Mohamed Salah has not travelled with the Liverpool squad to Milan
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Slot is due to speak to the media alongside a player at around 6.30pm UK time on Monday upon arrival in Italy.
Salah didn’t feature at all in Liverpool’s draw at Elland Road, with Slot saying he “needed different players” at the time.
After the game Salah took the rare step of stopping to speak to the media in the mixed zone, using the opportunity to express his dissatisfaction at how he was being treated.
During an astonishing interview, Liverpool’s third-greatest goalscorer said: “(I couldn’t believe) that I’m sitting on the bench for 90 minutes.
“The third time on the bench, I think for the first time in my career. I’m very, very disappointed to be fair. I have done so much for this club down the years and especially last season.
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Mohamed Salah waved at Liverpool supporters at full-time against Leeds
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“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.
“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. 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.”
| Liverpool all-time leading scorers | Goals |
| Ian Rush | 346 |
| Roger Hunt | 285 |
| Mohamed Salah | 250 |
The dramatic late surrender at Leeds means it is now just four wins for Slot’s side in their past 15 outings in all competitions, losing nine of them.
Salah was pictured waving to supporters at Elland Road, but his explosive rant now brings into question whether he will have the opportunity to play when Brighton are the visitors to Anfield this weekend in the Premier League.
“This club, I always support it,” he continued on Saturday. “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,” Salah said.
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Mohamed Salah (c) on the bench
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“Yesterday I said to them, come to the Brighton game. I don’t know if I am going to play or not but I am going to enjoy it. In my head, 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. I don’t know what is going to happen when I am there.”
Salah finished fourth in the 2025 Ballon d’Or voting after scoring 34 goals and assisting 23 last season, but his decline in form has been rapid since signing a new contract in the summer.
