‘Sometimes I act selfishly’

Liverpool striker Mohamed Salah has discussed his relationship with teammate Sadio Mane, admitting that he sometimes acts selfishly on the pitch but it is never intentional.

Salah has managed 13 goals in the top-flight from 15 appearances, while the 29-year-old Mane has managed seven goals from the same number of appearances – a performance that has seen Liverpool move to second on the Premier League log.

However, there have been reports in the past questioning the relationship between the two players with pundits claiming they sometimes don’t pass the ball to each other.

“My relationship with Sadio [Mane]? We are teammates on the pitch and in the locker room, and it’s a professional relationship,” Salah, who joined Liverpool in 2017, told Egyptian broadcaster MBC.

“He and I give everything we have for the team to win. We may have a competition for who is better, but this is normal in any team and a legitimate right for any player, but in the end we serve the team.

“Sometimes I act selfishly on the field, but no one puts his interest above the interest of the team, and it is not intentional.

“In a match, Sadio left the field angry, this was the first time people talked about the bad relationship between us, and they associated every time I did not pass to him or he did not pass to me with this situation.

“But Sadio give me many assists and so do I. I am not jealous if someone else scored goals.”