Topic: Mohamed Salah - Best in the World *

[Stan.]

Feel like it’s more the way the whole side are playing as a unit. Mo seems isolated to me, not receiving the ball often enough, early enough and in the right sort of areas. Also seems to have gone back to playing really wide again, which has been an issue before. Definitely his touch and finishing are off at the moment, probably not helped by the injury and AFCON but it’s coincided with a complete downturn in form of the entire side. It’s worrying when you think of how Fabinho seemed to fall off a cliff in terms of fitness and ability at this level, but Salah is just too good and I’m certain he’ll be back at his best, just think the whole team needs a bit of a re-set because nothing’s really working currently.

[KirkVanHouten]

He's come back unfit, has returned to "fitness" during his fasting period. He's not fallen off a cliff, he's having a rare out of form out of fitness patch. Whether he's the long term answer moving forward is unsure though.

Yeah that's fine but we need to start pricing that into our player valuations and considering it in our recruitment balance. Playing in AFCON is a huge negative mark on a player. They are taken away in the middle of the busiest period of a season and we don't get any benefit. The margins we've lost titles by are so thin, it's absurd that we have had this tournament taking away our best players and returning them crocked to derail our season.