Jamie Carragher has added fuel to the fire after Mohamed Salah responded to the former Liverpool defender in his post-match interview on Sunday.
Liverpool moved nine points clear at the top of the Premier League with a convincing 2-0 win over Manchester City, as goals from Cody Gakpo and Mohamed Salah opened up an 11-point gap between themselves and City.
It was an outstanding team performance from Arne Slot‘s side, who have won 18 games out of a possible 20 this season – a remarkable record all things considered.
But rather than the result, one of the big talking points on Sunday night was a post-match interview with Sky Sports involving goalscorer Salah and captain Virgil van Dijk.
As you can see from the footage below, Van Dijk was asked to choose between himself and Salah for Player of the Match. The Dutchman responded: “I’m surprised Carragher wouldn’t give it to you.”
Salah, who has been criticised by Carragher in recent days [more on that below], replied: “Ah no, he [Carragher] wouldn’t give it to me. Never. He wouldn’t! I don’t want to talk about this!”
Moments later, when the cameras cut back to the Sky Sports studio, presenter David Jones asked Carragher for his take on Salah’s comments.
The former Liverpool centre-back would then reference Roy Keane’s bust-up with an Ipswich Town fan last week and joked that he would arrange to meet Salah “in the carpark” after he called him out.
And shortly after, Carragher took to X, formerly Twitter, to add more fuel to the fire.
Responding to a video of the post-match interview, he replied: “I would’ve give it to VVD to be fair!” – in reference to Salah being awarded the Player of the Match by co-commentator Gary Neville, who had the final say.
As mentioned above, Carragher has recently criticised Salah for publicly speculating about his future.
Last weekend, after scoring twice in the 3-2 win over Southampton at St Mary’s, Salah revealed that he is yet to receive a contract offer ahead of his deal expiring at the end of the season.
“We are almost in December and I haven’t received any offers yet to stay in the club,” he said.
“I’m probably more out than in. You know I have been in the club for many years. There is no club like this. But in the end it is not in my hands. As I said, it is December and I haven’t received anything yet about my future.”
Carragher responded to the interview by saying he was “very disappointed” at those comments. “That interview yesterday, Liverpool have got Real Madrid midweek and they’ve got Manchester City at the weekend. That’s the story for Liverpool right now,” he added.
“The most important thing is Liverpool winning the Premier League – that is more important than any of those players. And if he continues to put comments out or his agent keeps putting cryptic tweets out, that’s selfish. That’s thinking about themselves and not the football club.”