Wayne Rooney likens Enzo Maresca to Mohamed Salah after Chelsea comments

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Rooney addressed Maresca's comments in a new episode of his BBC podcast, and suggested that the Chelsea head coach's remarks were premeditated – just as Salah's seemed to be in the Elland Road mixed zone earlier this month, when the Egyptian claimed that Liverpool had thrown him under the bus after a run of three Premier League games in which he was left out of the starting line-up. They employ you and bring you in, so it’s their way and I feel he’s gone a bit against that.

“It is something that’s clearly happened, whether it’s a disagreement or he feels his job is under pressure and he doesn’t feel it should be because of the two trophies he’s won and the points he’s picked up. “I don’t feel like he’s a manager that will backtrack.

Whether he has heard things, like the club might want him out and he’s been proactive to go on the front foot, you don’t know why he’s done it. “I don’t think he’ll get the protection now he’s come out and done what he has done.