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Former England captain Alan Shearer says either Mohamed Salah or Arne Slot “will have to go” following the Egyptian’s recent incendiary comments.

Salah claimed at the weekend he had been “thrown under the bus” after being dropped to the bench by Slot and also said Saturday’s clash with Brighton could be his last game for the club.

Shearer knows a thing or two about being dropped as a high-profile player after Ruud Gullit famously left him out of the Newcastle squad for a derby against Sunderland in 1999.

The Dutchman paid the price with his job soon after and Shearer reckons both men cannot stay at Liverpool.

Asked if the situation can be resolved, Shearer said on Prime Video: “I’d be really surprised, we don’t know the real situation but it looks like it is a him or manager situation. One of them will have to go.

“As a manager you always have the right to leave anyone out to get the results, but when you leave a superstar like him out and you’re not bringing him on when you need to win games, you have to win games sooner rather than later or you know what happens.”

Salah has been left out of Tuesday’s Champions League trip to Inter Milan and Shearer says he would have handled the situation differently.

He added: “If I was manager handling this very, very difficult situation, I think a great way would have been go to see him on Sunday and say, ‘It’s not good for you, it’s not good for me, but we have to do what is best for the team’.

“I think a win-win situation would have been to put him in tonight, not leave him at home.

“If the manager puts him in, he has to play well. If he scores and they win then great, it’s what Liverpool need.

“If he doesn’t play well then the manager can say, ‘That’s the reason I did it’.”