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Mohamed Salah has acknowledged that much happened "behind the scenes" that made him ready to depart Liverpool this summer.
Salah will walk away with a year still remaining on the two-year deal he signed just last summer, and in a conversation with Sky Sports, he was pushed to explain a decision that caught everyone off guard at the start of the current season.
"I think personally—I'm not going into details, I'm not trying to play around—but last season I wasn't ready to go because you break the records, you win the Premier League, it's not right," he said.
"But now with everything going on in the season—I won't go into details—it's like, 'You know what, it's time. I want to go.'
"And of course there are a lot of things behind the scenes people don't know about, but yeah, I think now is the time. I have peace with it.'"
Salah also shared with TNT Sports: "To go through the year, the season, where I feel like, 'O.K., this is the right thing to do now and I have peace with it.'
"This season was difficult for all of us and I don't want to say much more on that."
What Could Salah Be Talking About?
The turbulence at Liverpool began in July 2025 with the tragic passing of winger Diogo Jota. Speculating about the effect of that loss on the squad would be unfair, but Salah made no effort to conceal his tears as he applauded a rendition of Jota's beloved chant following Liverpool's opening-day win over Bournemouth.
Five months on, Salah made headlines with a startling public outburst directed at manager Arne Slot, with whom he claimed he had "no relationship" after being left out of the starting lineup for three consecutive matches.
The Reds' manager has denied playing a role in Salah's exit but acknowledged he had no objection if supporters wanted to cast him as the "bad guy" in the situation.
Amid all the off-field turbulence, there have also been glaring problems on the pitch at Liverpool. The team's poor form saw them eliminated from the title race before the halfway mark of the season, with Salah's own performances dipping sharply following what many considered the finest campaign of his career the previous year.
Slot conceded that this year quickly became a transitional period for Liverpool, who recruited several new faces to fill the void left by the departures of Trent Alexander-Arnold, Luis Díaz, and Darwin Núñez, among others.
"I wouldn't say I expected it like this, but I think if you look back to when I won the PFA Player of the Year, they asked me on the stage what do you think about Liverpool's season," Salah told Stan Sport.
"The new players coming, very good players, very good signings. I said, 'It's tricky because it's very tricky to have like five or six players new to the team, things changing in the dressing room.'
"It's very tricky with the new guys. We don't have that bond yet because it's everyone new, and I was hoping that this season we just try to help them as much as possible because it's very, very important for the dressing room."