On June 22, 2017, Mohamed Salah took off the Rome shirt and replaced it with the famous Liverpool red shirt for 37 million pounds.
No. He was described at the time as being too big for a player who left Chelsea without much influence.
But after three years, Salah proved that all his critics were wrong and unleashed himself to reap the green and dry companions of Liverpool to the point of placing his image on the front cover of the famous “Time” magazine and on a mural in New York.
The English “Squaoka” website published a report before the Liverpool and Crystal Palace meeting about the importance of Salah and asked whether the Egyptian player’s joining the Reds was the true turning point of the team under the leadership of his coach Juergen Klopp.
While anticipating who will be remembered as the current generation of Liverpool star like before with Kenny Dalglish and Stephen Gerrard, there are those who tend to Virgil Van Dyck, whose impact on the team was clear after joining him.
There is Alison Baker as well and Jordan Henderson who was rejected by Sir Alex Ferguson for joining Manchester United because of his dislike of his way of running and now he has become a leader of Liverpool raising tournaments one after the other.
Despite all this Sadio Mane, Roberto Firmino and Trent Alexander Arnold were not touched upon, but the moment of Salah’s arrival to Liverpool was the decisive point in everything that has been achieved since that time.
Salah participated in 113 league games and won 83 times with a victory of 73%, and this number is the highest for any player in the history of the Premier League who has participated in more than 100 games.
And if the 13 matches that he participated in are excluded from Chelsea, Salah’s victory will reach 75%.
Claude Makelele has a 71% victory rate, and Paulo Ferreira has 72% and that was with Chelsea’s historic generation with their coach Jose Mourinho in 2004-2005.
Even Nemanja Vidic has a 71% victory rate.
None of them reached what Salah had achieved.
And when any player reaches 32 goals in one season, just as Salah did in 2017-2018, his position in the English Premier League history books is safely preserved.
There is no player in the Premier League who has scored more goals than him now (70), or shot on target like him (174 shots), or touching the ball inside the opponent’s penalty area more than him (852 touches).
It is also the fourth most dodgy in the league with (204 dribbling), the fourth is repeated in the goals industry (24 chances), and the second in creating the disc (40).
“He is an exceptional striker, a world-class striker,” Klopp said earlier, after Salah reached his 20th goal in all three seasons in Liverpool.
“I am happy for him and I think Mane can repeat it and this will be a beautiful thing.”
“We need players on the field who can do good things, and in the end someone ends the opportunities permanently. Thank God, it is Salah.”
Former Liverpool player Danny Murphy believes Salah’s position in Liverpool is better than Luis Suarez because of his consistency and modesty.
Arsene Wenger, Arsenal’s historical coach, previously said of Salah: “I admire the way he develops because his touches of the ball against Monterrey in the Club World Cup match were touches of the playmaker.”
“He created opportunities around the penalty area and this was exceptional. There were glimpses of what Messi was doing in Salah in that match. I love the player who can score and make a lot of goals.”
“He is an integrated player, and this is what we admire and what we want from our players.”
There were reports that Salah linked to the departure from Livbrool, which his agent Rami Abbas and Salah himself denied placing three smiles on his Twitter account in response to these reports.
Even outside the stadium, Salah was one of the few footballers chosen to put his picture on the cover of “Time” magazine, describing him as one of the most influential in the world in 2019.
Salah donated 500 thousand dollars during the Corona pandemic to his village in Egypt, Nigrig, in addition to some other charitable work.
Moroccan national footballer and former Liverpool player and current Qatari player Nabil Zahar said about him: “The fans in North Africa encourage all the teams, but they love Salah and they have a lot of special feelings with him.”
“For me, because he is an Arab, he is a good example and gives hope to people. He is a positive person and we see him as a good example of a person who has been humble and works hard to achieve his dreams.”
Before his arrival to Liverpool, there was a player who saw Salah the possibility of brilliance, and he is the historic Roma leader Francesco Totti and said: “With Salah I have a special relationship.”
“Indeed, when we were playing together in Rome and he scored goals he was telling me that he feels that he becomes a different player because he loved the way he passed the ball to him and how I put him in front of the goal.”
“He is an exceptional person and a real man who has done a lot for Rome. We are still in touch and I am happy to say that I met a great player and a great person as well,” Tutti said.
Liverpool’s list includes many legends and amazing for any club, and through genius on the field and humility outside it may be Salah is the first player in the current generation to secure his place within the legends of the club.
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