Champions League winner slams Jamie Carragher in impassioned Mohamed Salah defense

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In a memorable tirade on Sky Sports' Monday Night Football two days after Liverpool's 3-3 draw with Leeds, Carragher accused Salah of speaking out to "cause maximum damage" while also saying that Salah arrived at Liverpool "known as the man who failed at Chelsea." Carragher's comments have drawn fierce criticism from former Chelsea player Mikel, who said: "We are talking about Liverpool here, we are talking about the Premier League, and you have somebody sat there in the studio, criticizing Mo Salah, and saying Mo Salah has never won the Africa Cup of Nations — that's a failure, criticizing him. What's that got to do with the Premier League?

"Look what he's done since he failed at Chelsea. It's how you get up when you fall, when you're down there, and Mo Salah did that after Chelsea.

"[Carragher] did not win the Premier League, did not win anything with his national team – abandoned his national team, honestly, because he wasn't playing, and yet you are the player that is criticizing somebody for speaking out that he wants to play, but you retired because you were not playing. That's what you call a true leader, a true champion.