Jamie Carragher ranks top five Liverpool players ever as he criticises Mohamed Salah

Jamie Carragher has ranked Mohamed Salah among the Liverpool greats, portion besides criticising the forward's "selfish" determination to talk retired astir his aboriginal astatine the club

Jamie Carragher believes Mohamed Salah is 1 of 5 champion footballers to person ever played for Liverpool, having slammed the guardant implicit his "selfish" behaviour.

Salah has scored a whopping 223 goals successful 367 games for Liverpool crossed each competitions, a grounds that makes him the club's 5th all-time grounds goalscorer down Ian Rush, Roger Hunt, Gordon Hodgson and Billy Liddell.

And Carragher ranks Salah arsenic 5th connected his database of all-time Liverpool greats down Steven Gerrard, Kenny Dalglish, Graeme Souness and Rush. Speaking connected Monday Night Football, Carragher revealed: "I would accidental that Mo Salah is successful the apical 5 players to ever play for Liverpool.

"I would spell Steven Gerrard, Kenny Dalglish, Graeme Souness, Ian Rush and I'd enactment Mo Salah successful 5th position. That's however highly I complaint him. That's however peculiar this feline is."

"We are astir successful December and I haven't received immoderate offers yet to enactment successful the club," Salah told reporters aft starring successful Liverpool's 3-2 triumph implicit Southampton. "I'm astir apt much retired than in. You cognize I person been successful the nine for galore years.

"There is nary nine similar this. But successful the extremity it is not successful my hands. As I said before, it is December and I haven't received thing yet astir my future. I emotion the fans. The fans emotion me. In the extremity it is not successful my hands oregon the fans' hands. Let's hold and see."

He besides expressed his disappointment with the club's hierarchy, adding: "I'm not going to discontinue soon truthful I'm conscionable playing, focusing connected the play and I'm trying to triumph the Premier League and hopefully the Champions League arsenic well. I'm disappointed but we volition see."

However, Carragher was not impressed with Salah's comments, stating: "I indispensable say, I americium precise disappointed with Mo Salah. That interrogation past nighttime aft the crippled erstwhile it comes out. Liverpool person gotReal Madridmidweek and they've gotManchester Cityat the weekend.

"That's the communicative for Liverpool close now. Mo Salah, we're each aware, surely the section reporters are successful Liverpool, that successful the 7 years he's been astatine the shot club, he's stopped successful the mixed portion twice.

"Which is his close which is perfectly good but helium decided to halt for the 3rd clip distant astatine Southampton connected the backmost of winning the crippled and putting that out. The astir important happening for Liverpool Football Club this play is not the aboriginal of Mo Salah, not the aboriginal of Virgil van Dijk and not the aboriginal of Trent Alexander-Arnold.

"The astir important happening is Liverpool winning the Premier League, that is much important than immoderate of those players. And if helium continues to enactment comments retired and his cause keeps putting cryptic tweets out, that’s selfish. That's reasoning astir themselves and not the shot club."

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