Mohamed Salah has sensationally cast doubt over his Liverpool future.
Salah started a third successive game on the substitutes’ bench as Arne Slot’s side were held to a 3-3 draw by Leeds United on Saturday night.
The Egypt international was overlooked by the Reds’ head coach for a second game, having also been unused during the win over West Ham.
He is set to sign off from club duty for the Africa Cup of Nations after the Premier League champions welcome Brighton & Hove Albion next weekend.
But Salah revealed in an explosive post-match interview at Elland Road that the game could potentially be his last due to a broken relationship with Slot.
He said: “I’m very, very disappointed. I have done so much for this club down the years and especially last season.
“Now I’m sitting on the bench and I don’t know why. It seems like the club has thrown me under the bus.
“That is how I am feeling. I think it is very clear that someone wanted me to get all of the blame.
“I got a lot of promises in the summer and so far I am in the bench for three games, so I can’t say they keep the promise.
“I said many times before that I had a good relationship with the manager and all of a sudden, we don’t have any relationship.
“I don’t know why, but it seems to me, how I see it, that someone doesn’t want me in the club.
“This club, I always support it. My kids will always support it. I love the club so much, I will always do.
“I called my mum yesterday – you guys didn’t know if I would start or not, but I knew. Yesterday I said to [my parents], ‘Come to the Brighton game.’
“I don’t know if I am going to play or not but I am going to enjoy it. In my head, I’m going to enjoy that game because I don’t know what is going to happen now. I will be at Anfield to say goodbye to the fans and go the Africa cup.
“I don’t know what is going to happen when I am there.”
Salah insists that he is not prepared to stay at Anfield if he will continue to be benched, opening up the previously unlikely prospect of a January exit.
“It is not acceptable for me,” added the forward.
“I don’t know why this is happening to me. I don’t get it. I think if this was somewhere else, every club would protect its player.
“How I see it now is like you throw Mo under the bus because he is the problem in the team now. But I don’t think I am the problem. I have done so much for this club.
“The respect, I want to get. I don’t have to go every day fighting for my position because I earned it.
“I am not bigger than anyone but I earned my position. It’s football. It is what it is. In football you never know.
“But I don’t accept this situation. I have done so much for this club.”