Salah Exit: Liverpool Star Seeks Winter Transfer

“I feel like the club threw me out to waste,” said Liverpool star striker Mohamed Salah after starting a third match in a row as a substitute this Saturday at Leeds (3-3).

The captain of Egypt, who will start the CAN in two weeks, will play his last match of the year with Liverpool against Brighton next Saturday. Before leaving the Mersey club for good? “I will be at Anfield to say goodbye to the supporters (…), before going to the African Cup of Nations, because I don’t know what will happen when I get there,” he assumed in the mixed zone.

In this context, the third top scorer in the club’s history (250 goals in 420 matches) signed a new contract with Liverpool in April, despite offers considered colossal from Saudi Arabia. “I received a lot of promises this summer, and now I’ve been on the bench for three games, so I can’t say they kept their promises,” said the right winger.

“Someone doesn’t want me in the club”

An unchanging starter until now, the striker has lost his untouchable status this season. At Leeds he was a substitute for the third time in a row and he didn’t even come on: “I said several times before that I had a good relationship with the manager, and all of a sudden we have no relationship. I don’t know why, but it seems to me, from what I see, that someone doesn’t want me in the club.”

A situation that he considers “not acceptable, not fair”. “I’m not the problem, I’ve done so much for this club. I don’t have to fight every day for my position, because I deserved it,” added the striker who arrived in 2017.

Eighth in the Premier League standings, Liverpool are experiencing a very disappointing first half of the season, after a summer marked by the accidental death of striker Diogo Jota and a very eventful transfer window in both directions.