Curtis Jones says Mohamed Salah apologised to his Liverpool team-mates for his controversial interview earlier this month.<\/p>\n
After being an unused substitute for the second time in three Premier League games, Salah<\/strong><\/a> let loose in the Elland Road mixed zone, claiming he had been \u201cthrown under the bus\u201d by the club.<\/p>\n Jones reveals Salah has apologised to Liverpool squad<\/p>\n Liverpool had just drawn 3-3 away to Leeds United<\/strong><\/a> to continue their miserable first half of the season, and Salah\u2019s comments<\/strong><\/a> felt extremely ill-advised and poorly timed.<\/p>\n He was rightly criticised for what he said and the timing of it, with Reds legend Jamie Carragher branding him a \u201cdisgrace\u201d<\/strong><\/a> during a seven-minute rant on Monday Night Football.<\/p>\n Carragher\u2019s words kind of turned the public tide in Salah\u2019s favour, and it\u2019s supposedly water under the bridge as the Egyptian featured in Liverpool<\/strong><\/a>\u2018s next league match against Brighton, seven days after his post-Leeds outburst.<\/p>\n Salah has now gone to represent Egypt at the Africa Cup of Nations, but he is still the talk of Anfield.<\/p>\n Head coach Arne Slot discussed Salah in his pre-match press conference on Friday<\/strong><\/a>, and in an interview on Friday, Reds midfielder Jones has revealed that the 33-year-old apologised to his team-mates for his comments after the Leeds match on December 6.<\/p>\n MORE ON LIVERPOOL ON F365\u2026 Salah made me \u2018angry\u2019, but Liverpool is a family \u2013 Curtis Jones<\/p>\n Jones, who says the Liverpool squad is united behind Salah, told Sky Sports<\/a>:\u00a0\u201cMo is his own man and he can say his own stuff. He apologised to us and was like, \u2018If I\u2019ve affected anybody or made you feel any sort of way, I apologise\u2019. That\u2019s the man that he is.<\/p>\n \u201cI can only speak from me knowing Mo and how he is with us and how he acted on that. He was positive as well. He was the exact same Mo, he had a big smile on his face and everybody was exactly the same with him. I guess it\u2019s just part of wanting to be a winner, and I don\u2019t think he will be the last.<\/p>\n \u201cI get that there are certain ways you can go about things, but if a lad\u2019s fine to just be on the bench and he doesn\u2019t want to play and help the team, then I think that\u2019s more of an issue.<\/p>\n \u201cWhen there\u2019s been any sort of anger from us, including myself, it\u2019s always been from a good place. In the moment, it might not have come out in the right way, but it\u2019s never been to affect the team, the staff, the manager, anybody like that. We\u2019re past that now and we\u2019re gelling well as a team, playing well and starting to win games.<\/p>\n \u201cWhen I\u2019ve spoken to lads at different teams and I see how our team is to theirs, here is more of a family thing and families argue and fight, but they always stick as one. That little blip showed that the family is the most important thing.<\/p>\n \u201cI say that with obviously the fans and the stuff with Mo that it hasn\u2019t affected us in any sort of way. It affected our minds in needing to win, but nobody has blamed anybody and I think that\u2019s the important thing.\u201d<\/p>\n Jones continued: \u201cI\u2019m a Scouser, I know how much it means to the city and fans and the club and staff around here. It\u2019s probably the first time I\u2019ve been in a situation like this.<\/p>\n \u201cThere were a few reasons why I came out and spoke (after losing to PSV). I was just honest. I will say what I think, and at times it will rub [people] up the wrong way.<\/p>\n \u201cAnybody who knows me knows I hate to lose, whether it\u2019s card games, training games, it doesn\u2019t matter. Now, because I\u2019m in the first team and I\u2019m a Scouser, I\u2019ve supported the team from a kid, I\u2019m playing as a player, but as a fan at the same time. I know how much it affects the fans, it affects me the exact same way. I\u2019ve got that extra on me that we cannot lose.<\/p>\n \u201cI was angry but it was a shock at the same time. It was positive to see how the lads all acted. They didn\u2019t blame Mo, didn\u2019t blame the manager, didn\u2019t blame each other or anything like that. It was just taking it on ourselves.<\/p>\n \u201cI was talking about the lads having to run more, fight more and compete. I wasn\u2019t just saying them, it\u2019s me as well. That\u2019s what you\u2019re starting to see now and that\u2019s why I feel like the whole thing is changing.\u201d<\/p>\n Mo Salah\u2019s Liverpool future still remains uncertain<\/p>\n\n
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