Jamie Carragher verdict on Mohamed Salah's Liverpool announcement and 'one final admission'

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SportFootballJamie CarragherLiverpool legend Jamie Carragher has had his say on Mohamed Salah's summer departure from Anfield and how he could bow out after nine yearsJamie Carragher suggests Mohamed Salah's Liverpool departure may have come "a year too late" and admits he does not want to be part of his send-off at Anfield in May. All the latest news and analysis from Anfield on the Liverpool Echo's dedicated LFC Facebook pageAnd former Liverpool captain and centre-back Carragher has explained in his latest column for the Telegraph why Salah may have been better off leaving after the Reds were crowned champions last season.He said: "The timing of Tuesday’s announcement strikes me as both perfect and clever.

There will, inevitably, be retrospective suggestions that the decision is a year too late, and that it would have been better for all parties had he sought his farewell when the club won the Premier League trophy last May."Salah is likely to receive an emotional send-off in the Reds' final home game of the campaign against Brentford in late May. But Carragher believes a more fitting send-off would be with a Champions League victory in the final on May 30.The 48-year-old said: "As a soon-to-be ex-Liverpool player, he will soon come to view the place where he made his name – as I do – as part of his extended family.

While I will celebrate his career, I have no wish to be part of a grand Anfield farewell after the club’s final Premier League fixture in May. Every Liverpool fan has something far better and more dramatic in mind."Knowing Salah’s mindset and competitive spirit, he will be setting his sights on the greatest of all possible goodbyes a week later: inspiring his team to victory in the Champions League final in Budapest.