Rio Ferdinand has raved about Liverpool forward Mohamed Salah on his Youtube channel.
The former Manchester United defender has said that Liverpool star Salah does not get the credit he deserves.
The pundit has added what people who are close to Salah have told him about the 29-year-old.
Ferdinand said about Salah on his YouTube channel, as transcribed by The Liverpool Echo: “He’s the fifth quickest to 100 Premier League goals in history, and the biggest fact of all that is he’s a wide player. He’s a wide striker, he’s not an actual out-and-out number nine.
“Ahead of him is Alan Shearer, Harry Kane, Sergio Aguero, Thierry Henry and then Salah.
“From the people I’ve spoken to who have been around him, played with him, worked at the club. He’s focused, he’s got that mentality, that obsession with football, obsession with scoring goals and being at the top of the charts.
“Every game you watch him he gets at least one or two opportunities on goal, created by himself or put on a plate for him.
“He’s an absolute killer. So when you’re talking about the best strikers, the best attackers in world football over the last couple of years, Salah has to be in the conversation.”
Let’s praise Mohamed Salah
Salah – who earns £200,000 per week as salary, according to Spotrac – is one of the best attacking players in the world and is a key figure at Liverpool.
As Ferdinand notes, the 29-year-old is not a number 9 and tends to start on the right.
It is phenomenal just how many goals that the Liverpool player scores from out wide.
Opposition defenders know what Salah is going to do, but they still cannot stop him.
Yes, he is that good.
Now, of course, Salah misses chances, but so does every single attacking players in the world.
When people speak about the best strikers/goalscorers in the world, they mention the likes of Cristiano Ronaldo, Kylian Mbappe and Erling Haaland.
How many name Salah among the top five players on the world?
The Egyptian consistently scores goals, and, just to remind ourselves, he is not a ‘natural’ striker.
Salah has scored 102 goals in 164 appearances in the Premier League so far in his career.
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