Am I the only one who thinks he was a
10/10 balon dor superstar until he lost afcon and world cup to Senegal in a week and hasn't looked the same since.
Ooooh 12 non pen goals in the Prem. Big hoop so does Chris Wood let's get him.
Mo salah is now no longer good enough for lfc.
You’ve been talking about Mane putting him out. That was the 2022 final, Egypt v Senegal, and Salah has certainly shown some great stuff since 2022 for us. In 2024 Senegal and Egypt didn't play each other, and Salah limped off with a hamstring injury against Ghana.
The injury was worse than first thought, then he tweaked it again, and he hasn’t got back to the level he was showing in the first half of the season for us, before AFCON. It has all coincided now with a loss of form, and the timing is lousy as we were trying to win a Premier League title. Salah has been so relentlessly good over the years that I can’t even begrudge him a loss of form.
The legitimate question that is coming to the fore is about his age and drop in level.
To my mind Salah is clearly past peak. The pace isn’t there and he rarely runs past defenders. The strength isn’t there either, and he often gets muscled off the ball and loses his duels. There have been signs that he is reinventing himself and developing his game, dropping a bit deeper, looking for a pass, and then still trying to finish, but overall, we are now in a phase of diminishing returns.
I’d have no qualms about selling him this summer so the new manager can reinvest the fee and shape his team.
With all that said, it should not be beyond fans to show some respect to one of our greats. I may have it wrong, but reading the last couple of pages you almost sound like you are reveling in his decline and eager to kick him to touch.
I do think it is time for a move, and don’t disagree there, but Mo Salah has nothing but respect from me for the man he is and his considerable achievements in a Liverpool shirt. Bringing Chris Wood into it seems unnecessarily disrespectful.
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