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MOHAMED Salah has shown some signs of discontent with Liverpool in recent days, but this is not the time for him to be pushing for a transfer.
This interview with a Spanish newspaper expressing his admiration for Real Madrid and Barcelona was the first part of this story and some of his comments will not have been well received by the Anfield bosses.
It appears that he was not happy that Red manager Jurgen Klopp appointed Trent Alexander-Arnold as captain for the Champions League game against FC Midtjylland earlier this month, while also saying it was the club’s decision. get a new contract.
Then came the second round, when his international teammate and friend Mohamed Aboutrika appeared on television to suggest that Salah is not happy with Liverpool, adding to the suspicion that this may be the start of an attempt to move. the next summer.
After the way Real Madrid targeted Salah and pulled him out of the 2018 Champions League final with some badass tactics, I’m surprised he was talking to the club and saying how much he admired them.
However, the reality is that most players still see Real Madrid and Barcelona as the final destination in their careers and the failure of Salah to gain recognition at the annual best player in the game awards could be upsetting to him. he.
You may feel that you would have a better chance of winning the Ballon d’Or if you played for one of the two great clubs in Spain, but I don’t see how that can happen in 2021.
Taking into account everything that has happened in the world and especially in football in the midst of this global pandemic, I do not see Real Madrid or Barcelona paying 150 million euros for anyone next summer and that is what it would take to take Salah out of Liverpool.
He is one of the best players in the world, a great business asset, given his popularity in his native Egypt, and he still has many years ahead of him to achieve all his ambitions.
If Salah is committed to Liverpool for the long haul, the events of the weekend may well have been a play for a bigger contract with the club.
We all know how football works these days and if that is what he wants, the club should sit down with his advisers and consider whether it is possible.
Otherwise, he still has a lot of time left on his contract and Liverpool need not sell him as long as he performs as he has this season.
There have been times when Salah has stopped boiling over the past 18 months, but the flashes of brilliance he regularly delivers confirm what class he is.
The second of the two goals he scored when he came off the bench at Crystal Palace last weekend was a stroke of casual genius from a player who has risen to a whole new level since he started working with the best coach of all in Liverpool.
Obviously I hope Salah stays, but if he’s still looking forward to something new this time next year, then the club might start to see what happens next.
He will be 29 by then and if Covid-19 vaccines have gotten us out of the mess we’re in right now, maybe Liverpool would consider a big money offer for Salah.
We know how efficient the club’s recruiting department has been in recent years, as we saw when Philippe Coutinho was sold for £ 142m to Barcelona. It worked in the team’s favor, as it financed the deals for Virgil van Dijk and then Alisson Becker.
Any player would enjoy the opportunity to play for this brilliant team and work with Klopp, and if I were in Salah’s place, I would like to stay at Liverpool until they expel me from the club.
However, foreign players do not have the same kind of affinity that someone like me would have with Liverpool and Salah might feel that the grass will be greener or maybe the money will be greater elsewhere.
Liverpool fans won’t worry about Salah or his friend making these public comments as long as he continues to deliver on the field and there are no signs that he won’t at this point.
So for me this is a story that can be put on the back burner for the next several months and can be revisited in the summer of 2022 when hopefully we are all in a much better place.
Finally, I would like to wish all of our readers a Merry Christmas and I hope that very soon we will have a little hope injected into all of our lives.
Jamie Carragher and Gary Neville chose their 2020 Premier League squad on Sky Sports on Monday and raised a few eyebrows as they went through Tottenham’s Son Heung-min ahead of Liverpool’s Sadio Mane.
My affinity for Liverpool would lead me to pick Mane, but I can totally see why Son got the go-ahead on a front line that also included Harry Kane and Mohamed Salah.
Statistics suggest that Son has scored and created more goals than Mane in the last 12 months and that is a good reason to pick a player who has been great for a Spurs team that is not as good as Liverpool right now. .
Kane e Son have led José Mourinho’s side in the first half of this campaign and their class has shone, but Mane (below) did the same at times last season.
There were times when Salah and Roberto Firmino were out of the boil for Liverpool and Mane stepped up and got the job done, but I don’t have too many arguments about Son’s entry into this team.
Carragher and Neville are the top two TV experts by some distance and I agreed with their choice of Wolves center-back Conor Coady in center defense alongside Virgil van Dijk.
In fact, I would like that partnership to become a reality. If Liverpool are thinking of signing a defender next month, former Reds academy graduate Coady would be near the top of my list of players who should try to return to the club.
THE 2020 ALDO TEAM
Alisson becker
Trent Alexander-Arnold
Andy Robertson
Conor Coady
Virgil van Dijk
Kevin De Bruyne
Jordan henderson
Bruno fernandes
Mo Salah
Harry Kane
Sadio mane
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