🚨 Michael Owen on Mohamed Salah's performance against New Zealand:
🗣️ "For almost a season, people were convinced Mohamed Salah was declining. Arne Slot's system made the world question a player who has been one of the most consistent forwards of his generation. Then he puts on an Egypt shirt at the World Cup and reminds everyone exactly who he is.
A goal, an assist, leadership, composure, everything you'd expect from a world-class player. Egypt do not have the same level of quality that Liverpool have around him, yet Salah still found a way to decide the game. That's what elite players do.
If he can produce performances like that while carrying the expectations of an entire nation, nobody should be telling me he's finished. Liverpool have better players, better resources, and more attacking quality than Egypt. Salah should be flourishing there, not being made to look like a player in decline."
This performance didn't surprise me. What surprises me is how quickly people forgot who Mohamed Salah is. He was never washed. The world was simply convinced to believe it."
I have witnessed this club go from doubters to believers, and from believers to champions. It took hard work and I always did everything I could to help the club get there. Nothing makes me prouder than that.
Us crumbling to yet another defeat this season was very painful and not what our fans deserve. I want to see Liverpool go back to being the heavy metal attacking team that opponents fear and back to being a team that wins trophies. That is the football I know how to play and that is the identity that needs to be recovered and kept for good. It cannot be negotiable and everyone that joins this club should adapt to it.
Winning some games here and there is not what Liverpool should be about. All teams win games.
Liverpool will always be a club that means a great deal to me and to my family. I want to see it succeed for long after I have moved on.
As I’ve always said, qualifying to next season’s Champions League is the bare minimum and I will do everything I can to make that happen.
Can we be honest, Isak has been a terrible signing.
£125m for a striker on course to finish the season with just 4 goals in all competition🫢
We gambled on an injury-prone player and it’s failed spectacularly.
At that price, he needed to hit the ground running.
If United had signed him, we’d be laughing at them now for it.
'Wait for a full pre-season' is wishful thinking when he’s likely to come back injured from the World Cup anyway.
Realistically, you can’t defend this as anything above a 1/10 signing right now.
GGGGGGGGGOOOOOOOOOOOOOAAAAAAAAAAALLLLLLLLL!!!!!!!!!!
OHHHHHHHHH ANDY ANDY!!!!
Also, can we talk about the vital save from Freddie Woodman just a few seconds earlier...from almost 1-1 to 2-0 in a flash!