By LEWIS BROWNING, SPORTS REPORTER
Published: 14:07 EST, 9 December 2025 | Updated: 14:14 EST, 9 December 2025
Alan Shearer has suggested that either Mohamed Salah or Arne Slot will have to leave Liverpool for the current situation at the club to resolve itself.
Salah shook the football world at the weekend when he launched a verbal attack on the club, suggesting someone has 'thrown him under the bus' amid the side's poor run of form.
He also said he has 'no relationship' with his manager, which led to him being left out of Liverpool's travelling party for their Champions League clash with Inter Milan on Tuesday night.
It remains to be seen how the situation will play out, with Salah off to the Africa Cup of Nations after this weekend for potentially longer than a month. According to Shearer, though, Liverpool now have to choose between their manager and their star man.
'I would be really surprised if there was a way back,' former Newcastle forward Shearer said on Prime Video. 'It looks to me that the situation it is either him or manager, one of them will have to go.
'As a manager you have the right to leave out whoever you want but you have to win games sooner or later if you are leaving him out.
Shearer also said: 'I want to speak about the mentality of him, what he has done, and he will be embarrassed, hurt, he has an ego that has been damaged. He will look at what he has done and achieved and think he has carried the club for eight years, won everything he can win. Without him that would not have happened.
'From his point of view that all comes in to the equation. He will think other players are playing poorly and are still playing and he will think he has taken the brunt of it. Sometimes you have to accept that when you are a superstar like him.'
Daniel Sturridge, meanwhile, admitted that his 'friend' had gone about things the wrong way.
The former Reds forward played for the club alongside Salah from 2017 and 2019, and have retained a strong relationship off-the-pitch since.
'I think it is not getting on the pitch that has made him do this,' Sturridge said. 'There was probably an element of surprise for him.
'I am disappointed in my friend. The reaction is so poor. It is terrible the way he has done it. He can come good again, we are viewing this in a moment of craziness.'
More to follow.