Mohamed Salah admits that there was ‘tension’ with Sadio Mane and he ‘was not very close’ with his former Liverpool teammate while Anfield Hero refers to ‘selfish’ accusation

Mohamed Salah has revealed that tension existed between itself and Sadio mane During their time together Liverpool.

Bee Jurgen KloppThe arrival at MerseSide in 2015, the first Borussia Dortmund Boss immediately started a considerable restructuring of the team he inherited.

The key to that reconstruction was both Mane and Salah, who arrived in 2016 and 2017 respectively, and the couple would continue to enjoy shimmering success next to Roberto Firmino As one of the most dreaded three in football.

Despite the collection of a whole series of honor together, reports have consistently suggested that Salah and Mane have endured a definitely icy relationship.

In a recent interview, Salah spoke to speculation for the first time and admitted that despite their chemistry on the field, their relationship had remained strictly professional.

“Yes, there was tension with Sadio,” Liverpool Talisma said L’Equipe.

‘Mind you, we were professionally until the end, I don’t think it influenced the team. It is a person to want more, I understand that he is a competitor.

“We were not very close to the field, but we always respected each other.”

A book that was published last year claimed that the relationship between the two constantly deteriorated during their time that played together, with a clear sense of Mane that his teammate was ‘selfish’.

Speaking of the accusation, Salah insisted that he is not interested in speculation, but pointed out that he had consistently served as a provider during his time to play with Mane.

“I don’t care. People can think what they want, it’s their right, “he went on.

‘But I invite everyone to note that the person who has given the most assists, I am.

‘We can look at the facts, but it is clearly easier to throw away such sentences; It gets the headlines, I know how it works.

‘As long as it stays within the limits of respect, that is fine with me. But that does not mean that this opinion is true. At the end of the day I know what I did and my conscience is clear. ‘

Interestingly, one of the first experts to pick up a potential gap between the two players was Michael Owen, who was mocked on a large scale at that time.

In 2021, the former Liverpool striker claimed that Mane deliberately avoided to be taken in the box to prevent Salah from offering further opportunity to increase his goal from the penalty spot.

He explained at the time: “I just wonder, and it is perhaps a bit of cunning thoughts that crawl into my head, Mo Salah is the penalty contractor in this team, and if he (mane) thinks he gets the chance to score, he thinks:” Well, I will score, Mo Salah will go a different fine. “

‘These players go for the Golden Boot in recent seasons.

‘It may be a wild kind of theory, but the competitive nature of him and Mo Salah … We have not seen them pass by when one of them is in a much better position for the other.

‘We see a little selfishness, we see a little dissatisfied behavior – Mo Salah shakes his head (when he was immersed).

‘I just think I have seen a few times seeing that Mane went down for that kind of opportunities … and (not to do it) Two games in the spider? It just reminded me a bit. ‘

Owen is not the only former Reds star who has an accusation of egoism against Salah.

After a bust between the Egypt International and departing boss Klopp after a 2-2 draw with West Ham last year, Souness claimed on the three front podcast that Salah had an “exceptionally big opinion about himself.”

He said: “I think the situation with Jurgen Klopp was a reaction to just 10 minutes – it was more Salah than Klopp in that confrontation.

‘Salah is the most selfish player I have ever seen. Even prior to that game, when Klopp jerks him, he is never happy with it. ‘

‘That is what you want from your players, if you take them on two goals, they must want to stay to score a third. When Sadio Mane was there, they would always fall out. ‘

Mane would eventually leave Liverpool in the summer of 2022 after a disappointing run-in, with the club claiming both domestic cup matches after he was on course for an unprecedented four-fold.

More to follow