{"id":20674,"date":"2025-12-08T12:04:47","date_gmt":"2025-12-08T10:04:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/jhb-webdevelopers\/channelafrica\/news\/salah-is-destroying-his-liverpool-legacy-rooney\/"},"modified":"2026-02-27T16:31:56","modified_gmt":"2026-02-27T14:31:56","slug":"salah-is-destroying-his-liverpool-legacy-rooney","status":"publish","type":"news","link":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/news\/salah-is-destroying-his-liverpool-legacy-rooney\/","title":{"rendered":"Salah is destroying his Liverpool legacy: Rooney"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>Liverpool forward Mohamed Salah is destroying his legacy at the club with his fiery reaction to being left out of the side, former Manchester United striker Wayne Rooney said.<\/div>\n<div>Salah has failed to start their last three matches and lashed out at the club and coach Arne Slot following Saturday&#8217;s 3-3 Premier League draw with Leeds United, saying he had been made a scapegoat for their poor start to the season.<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>The Egyptian, who signed a two-year contract extension in April, has become an iconic figure in an eight-year spell at Liverpool in which he has won two Premier League titles and scored 250 goals in all competitions.<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>However, he has scored just five goals and appeared in 19 games in all competitions this season.<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>&#8220;He is absolutely destroying his legacy at Liverpool,&#8221; Rooney said on his podcast. &#8220;It would be sad for him to throw it all away. He&#8217;s gone about it all wrong.<\/div>\n<div>&#8220;Arne Slot has to show his authority and pull him in and say, &#8216;you are not travelling with the team, what you said is not acceptable.&#8217;<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>&#8220;Take yourself off to African Cup of Nations and let everything calm down. If I was him there would be no way he would be in the team.&#8221;<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>Salah had said he felt as if he had been &#8220;thrown under the bus&#8221; with Liverpool failing to reproduce their title-winning form from last season.<\/div>\n<div>They are ninth in the current campaign, 10 points behind leaders Arsenal after 15 games.<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>&#8220;If anything, he has thrown Liverpool under the bus with his words,&#8221; Rooney said. &#8220;I am sure over the next couple of years he will regret saying what he has.&#8221;<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>&#8211;Reuters&#8211;<\/div>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":20675,"template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false},"news-type":[20],"class_list":["post-20674","news","type-news","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","news-type-sport","entry"],"acf":{"short_description":"Salah had said he felt as if he had been \"thrown under the bus\".","published_date":null,"news_description":"Salah had said he felt as if he had been \"thrown under the bus\".","form_embed":"","author":"","image_caption":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/20674","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/news"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/20674\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":24630,"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/20674\/revisions\/24630"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/20675"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=20674"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"news-type","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news-type?post=20674"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}