'Disgraceful' Salah comments have caused 'carnage'

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I don't think it was."When Mo Salah stops in the mixed zone - which he has done four times in eight years - it is choreographed with him and his agent to cause maximum damage and strengthen his own position."Speaking on BBC Radio 5 Live, Sutton said: "Liverpool is carnage because of Mo Salah."He's been honest and open, but he's made it all about him and not the team. He's been extremely selfish - that's what he's done because now there's a bit of a civil war at Liverpool, and it didn't need to be like this."Liverpool manager Arne Slot said he was "surprised" by Salah's comments that their relationship had broken down completely and had "no clue" if the 33-year-old would play for the club again."I don't feel my authority is undermined - it is not the way I feel it," added Slot in Milan on Monday."After tomorrow we will look at the situation.

He has tried to throw the club under the bus twice in the last 12 months."Going after the owners initially, he complained a year ago because they hadn't given him a contract at the age of 32."With the manager, he should be doing all he can to help the club get out of the worst run of results they have had since the 1950s."Speaking on BBC Radio 5 Live, former England captain Steph Houghton agreed."It probably couldn't have come at a worse time for Liverpool," she said."That's what makes us think this is something that was pre-planned. It's got us talking about it, which he wants."Carragher also called for Salah not to be "obsessed" with his own numbers and help the other players, such as big-money signings Florian Wirtz and Alexander Isak, hoping to emulate his success at the club."Some of the criticism has been excessive this season but I will go after Mo Salah when he tries to throw my club under the bus off the pitch and just thinks about himself," he added."The club have made the right decision in him not going abroad with them and whether he will play for the club again I don't know."I hope he does because he is one of the greatest players we have ever had."After a stellar season in 2024-25, in which he spearheaded Liverpool's surge to the title, Salah has been short of his best this campaign with only five goals in 19 games."He's had a phenomenal career," Sutton said."This season he hasn't played so well, his numbers are down, he's not the same player and all of a sudden he's been left out for a few games and wants to live by different rules than other players in the dressing room."I find the whole situation absolutely ridiculous."What good could come out of what he did?

I think he's really let himself down here."It's all about who will go - will it be Slot or will it be Salah? And how is that beneficial for someone who loves the club so much?"Speaking on BBC Radio 5 Live, Wrexham defender Conor Coady added: "I could only think that something has gone on behind the scenes that we don't know about."He should never, ever go to the press and do what he's done because you put your team-mates in jeopardy, and that's the most important thing.