Mohamed Salah:
“I cried a lot. More than my whole life. Very tough to leave a place like this. I’m not very emotional guy… but it’s very tricky… we did it and we bought the club to where it belongs. A message to the players: it’s not about talent it’s hard work and give it your all.”
Mohamed Salah is lambasted for not speaking enough, then when he does, is slammed for not doing it at the time and in the manner his critics demand.
He is not a performing monkey. He has given absolutely everything he could to the game - and for just shy of a decade, to Liverpool.
Why is his love for the club always questioned? Why can’t he speak as a fan of Liverpool, which he is?
Salah FC or Misperception FC?
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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.
"At the end of the day, Liverpool football club need Mo Salah back playing well"
Steven Gerrard gives his take on Mo Salah's comments and his current situation at Liverpool 🗣️
You can be angry Salah did the interview, especially at a time when Liverpool are vulnerable, you can think he’s well out of line, you can feel that it may make long-term sense for the club to sell him… but it’s silly to minimise his contributions for club and country, to rewrite history, and to act like the player he is was handed to him on a platter.
‘Salah hasn’t done anything with Egypt’ always rears its head to discount him whether it’s award voting or just point scoring.
Do you know what Egyptian football has been through? How hard it has toiled to rise from the abyss. And who the country considers the most pivotal player to their rebirth?
The violent uprisings. The 2012 Port Said stadium tragedy where 74 people lost their lives with over 500 injured that led to the shutdown of the domestic league causing financial ruin, lack of competitiveness, erosion of facilities, spectator bans. Police tear-gassing fans leading to a stampede and more deaths in 2015…
And so with all that instability, the most successful team in African Cup of Nations history didn’t qualify for the 2012, 2013 and 2015 versions of the tournament.
It was Salah who scored twice away to Tanzania in qualifying to put them back at an AFCON for the first time since 2010... And was instrumental in getting them to two finals.
Egypt’s first World Cup appearance since 1990? It was Salah who kept his nerve to slot a 95th-minute penalty booking their place in the 2018 showpiece; their top scorer in the qualifying campaign.
And his nine goals to fire them to WC 2026 has made him the all-time top scorer in African qualifying history.
Egypt’s current generation, led by Salah, have put in a shift to just be back on these main stages after so much turmoil.
@AnfieldSector "Yes, I know he's a superstar, and he's scored loads of goals, and he's given us great nights, but like...sometimes he doesn't track back, so who is the real enemy here?"