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The Liverpool forward’s recent Instagram post, a subtle dig at struggling manager Arne Slot, was the subject of yet another rant from Jamie Carragher yesterday evening.
Mohamed Salah and Jamie Carragher’s feud is well-documented and almost entirely propagated by the ex-Liverpool centre-back, but the Egyptian has also gotten a rare hit in across the years.
The latest instalment in their beef came yesterday evening on Sky Sports, as Carragher branded the winger’s latest Instagram post as “selfish” and revealed that he had told colleagues Salah would “drop another bomb.”
Jamie Carragher has made his negative feelings towards fellow Liverpool legend Mohamed Salah known
The 48-year-old continued: “Mo Salah is more Salah FC than Liverpool FC. And the reason I’ve been critical of him is because he puts himself before the football club.”
The ex-Liverpool player then compared Salah’s reaction to being benched in December to the responses of Reds legends Kenny Dalglish and Steven Gerrard at the tail-end of their careers.
“Did [Dalglish] come out and lambast Joe Fagan? No, he didn’t. Did Steven Gerrard lambast Brendan Rodgers on his way out? No, he didn’t. I still don’t remember Salah apologising for his outburst at Leeds,” said Carragher.
Mohamed Salah was revealed by team-mate Curtis Jones to have apologised to the squad following his outburst in December, but a persistent focus on the negative aspects of his character and behaviour have come to be expected from the ex-Liverpool centre-back.
In 2024, Carragher also appeared to hit out at the Egyptian’s perceived selfishness when the winger took to the media to hustle for a contract negotiation at Liverpool, during a week in which the Reds were set to face key rivals Real Madrid and Manchester City.
The 48-year-old said on Sky Sports: “If [Salah] 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."
Salah took to X shortly after, writing: “I’m starting to think you’re obsessed with me,” before scoring and assisting in a 2-0 win over Manchester City in the following Premier League game.
I’m starting to think you’re obsessed with me 😉 https://t.co/YAnwbaHdRiJanuary 6, 2025
After that clash, in which the Egyptian received the Man of the Match award, Virgil van Dijk joked that he was surprised Carragher didn’t give the award to him instead, while handing Salah the trophy.
The Egyptian added: “He wouldn’t give it to me!” and prompted the 48-year-old to clarify via X that he “would’ve given it to VVD, to be fair.”
Their feud reached darker heights in December 2025 when Salah was recurrently benched under Arne Slot, prompting the winger to give a fiery interview and slam Liverpool for not protecting him from media criticism.
Carragher’s darkest moment and past Salah tirades
In response, Carragher said: “I will go after Mo Salah when he tries to throw my club under the bus off the pitch and just thinks about himself. I certainly will do that.”
During this tirade, in which he referred to Liverpool as his club, not Salah’s, he branded the winger’s actions a “disgrace” and "choreographed… to cause maximum damage.”
In the 2018/19 season, Carragher made his preference known regarding the competition between Sadio Mane and Mohamed Salah, during their title race against Manchester City.
Speaking on Monday Night Football, the 48-year-old said: “Mane is the one that got Liverpool back. He was Klopp’s first big signing.
“It's not just scoring, being top of the charts… banging a couple in at the end of the game. It's the importance of the goals Mane is getting. He’s the best wide player that Liverpool have had for 30 years [since John Barnes]... I'd rather lose Salah than Mane," he continued.
Carragher’s comments arrived during Salah’s first ever goal drought for Liverpool, after bagging 32 strikes, a Premier League single season record, in the campaign prior.
In the 18 months prior, the Egyptian had recorded 70 Premier League goal involvements in 69 games for Liverpool, compared to Mane’s 36 contributions in 58 matches.
While Liverpool fought for the Premier League title in 2024/25, with Salah on track to win a record-breaking third PFA Players’ Player of the Year award, Carragher confessed on Sky Sports that the Egyptian could perhaps be Liverpool’s greatest ever player.
Leadership Josh!First bad season for him & the club & I think he could’ve handled better. When you’re picking your top 10 the slightest thing can change it as there’s not much in it.Just a reminder I put him 6th on the list of LFC all time 🤷🏻♂️🤯😅March 30, 2026
The Egyptian lived up to Carragher’s prophecy, winning PFA POTY, the Golden Boot and the Playmaker Award, alongside the Premier League title, then, the next year, Carragher placed Salah at sixth in his all-time Liverpool legends ranking while speaking to the club.
The ex-Liverpool’s centre-back’s list arrived days after the announcement of Salah’s Anfield exit, prompting furious responses from fans on X.
When asked why he had dropped the Egyptian lower in his rankings, Carragher wrote on X: “Leadership! First bad season for him and the club [in 2025/26] and I think he could have handled it better.”
While taking off-the-pitch behaviour and leadership into consideration for his list, the 48-year-old placed Graeme Souness above the Egyptian.
Souness is widely remembered for giving an interview to The Sun while acting as manager of Liverpool, which was published on the anniversary of the Hillsborough disaster.
Whatever the outcome of Salah and Carragher’s feud will be in years to come, Liverpool fans will surely be glad to see the end of it with the Egyptian now set to depart from Anfield.
Mohamed Salah will return to wear Liverpool red one final time against Brentford on Sunday, with Arne Slot’s men looking to secure Champions League qualification.
