Fuming Carragher rips into Salah: 'Before he joined Liverpool, he was known as the guy who failed at Chelsea!'

The chaos around Mohamed Salah just won't stop! Days after the Egyptian accused the club of "throwing him under the bus" after the manager Arne Slot kept him on the bench in a 3-3 draw against Leeds United, the atmosphere at Anfield is heating up.

On the one hand, some people openly supported the African superstar - such as John Terry, for instance - but on the other, he most likely won't play against Inter Milan in the Champions League tonight (23.00), especially after admitting that his relationship with the manager is seriously strained.

John Terry and the Pharaohs support Salah

And while the club is trying to diffuse the situation, one of the people Salah directly called out, Jamie Carragher, decided to speak out and rip into the Egyptian. He responded to all the player's claims about the club and the manager, including the one referring to him: "Tomorrow Carragher is going to go for me again and again and that's fine."

"I thought it was a disgrace what he did after the game. Some people have painted it as an emotional outburst, I do not think it was."

"I think whenever Mo Salah stops in a mixed zone, which he's done four times in eight years at Liverpool, it is choreographed by him and his agent to cause maximum damage and to strengthen his own position," Carragher started his tirade at Sky Sports, where he works as a pundit.

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The former defender reminded the public of the pressure Salah put on the Reds' management while they were hesitating to extend his contract, claiming that the forward deliberately chose to "open up" after a poor result to cause maximum damage.

"He did that 12 months ago and I called him out on this show about it. He played on the heartstrings of the Liverpool supporters."

"Liverpool were top of the league and he'd scored the wining goal at Southampton. That was the time to come out and put pressure on the Liverpool ownership. For the rest of the season you have banners in the crowd saying 'Give Mo his dough'."

"He's chosen this weekend to do this now and he's waited for a bad result, they've conceded a last minute goal. The Liverpool supporters, the manager, the whole club feels like it is in the gutter at the moment, and he's chosen that time to go for the manager and maybe try and get him sacked," Carragher bluntly stated via Daily Mail.

Liverpool fans with the "Give Mo his dough" banner Carragher mentioned (©Justin Setterfield/Getty Images)

The Reds' legend particularly touched on Salah's "thrown under the bus" statement, which seemed to have angered him the most.

"The line that stands out for me is 'thrown under the bus'. He's tried to throw the club under the bus twice in the last 12 months with the situations just mentioned."

"Going after the owners initially, and these are owners who have been paying him hundreds of thousands of pounds for six years, he's complained a year ago because they hadn't given him a new contract at the age of 32. The club are more than entitled to do that."

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"He's a legendary figure and all those players get a privilege. Exactly the same one as Salah gets at Liverpool and that's he doesn't have to defend. he doesn't have to chase back."

"That's what he has at Liverpool but when we are talking about throwing people under the bus, he's thrown the Liverpool right back under the bus for eight years. Imagine playing behind him for eight years."

"But we accept it because we are a superstar and he's scored 250 goals, and he's given me as a Liverpool supporter some of the greatest nights of my life watching him and what he's done," Carragher continued.

Finally, the pundit "saved the worst for last," accusing Salah of egoism and practically saying that he was no one before his spell at Anfield.

"When Salah is talking about how many goals he's scored and what he's done last season, he's always talking about himself."

"I want to remind Mo Salah and his agent, before he joined Liverpool he was known as the guy who failed at Chelsea. That's a fact. Egypt are the most successful nation at AFCON. Salah has never won the AFCON."

Back when they were friends: Carragher hugging Salah after Liverpool's win in the 2019 UCL final (©AFP)

"You weren't a big star before you came to Liverpool, you haven't really won anything with Egypt, and all that tells you is, no matter how good a player you are, you need help from your team-mates, your manager and the fans."

"It is really important that he remembers that and when he is talking about that in the mixed zone after the game, all it is about is me, me, me," Carragher concluded.

Now, it's Mo's turn to either end this drama or prolong it. The days to come will tell what he's opted for.

UEFA CHAMPIONS LEAGUE

Matchday 6

Tuesday

18.30: (6.75) Kairat Almaty (4.20) Olympiacos (1.50)

20.45: (1.28) Bayern Munich (6.75) Sporting Lisbon (10.5)

23.00: (3.35) Atalanta (3.50) Chelsea (2.25)

23.00: (1.17) Barcelona (8.50) Eintracht Frankfurt (15.0)

23.00: (2.00) Inter Milan (3.85) Liverpool (3.75)

23.00: (2.10) Monaco (3.80) Galatasaray (3.45)

23.00: (3.10) PSV Eindhoven (3.75) Atletico Madrid (2.30)

23.00: (3.00) St. Gilloise (3.70) Olympique Marseille (2.35)

23.00: (1.45) Tottenham (4.60) Slavia Prague (7.25)

Wednesday

20.45: (2.00) Qarabag (3.60) Ajax (4.00)

20.45: (1.45) Villarreal (4.50) Copenhagen (7.00)

23.00: (5.80) Athletic Bilbao (3.80) PSG (1.62)

23.00: (2.40) Benfica (3.40) Napoli (3.20)

23.00: (10.0) Club Brugge (5.20) Arsenal (1.37)

23.00: (1.28) Borussia Dortmund (6.00) Bodo/Glimt (9.50)

23.00: (1.18) Juventus (7.25) Pafos (15.0)

23.00: (3.10) Bayer Leverkusen (3.50) Newcastle (2.40)

23.00: (2.55) Real Madrid (3.85) Manchester City (2.65)

***odds are subject to change***