Tottenham coach states £35m Liverpool player is just ‘quite frightening’ and a ‘nightmare’

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Mohamed Salah will go down as one of Liverpool’s greatest-ever players, but the longer he stays at the club, can he become the greatest?

That tag probably belongs to Kenny Dalglish, Steven Gerrard or Graeme Souness, but Mohamed Salah is among those no doubt.

The 31-year-old recently struck 200 goals for Liverpool and he’s got a lot of admiration from Jermain Defoe.

The former striker, who is now a coach at Tottenham, stated that Mohamed Salah is a ‘quite frightening’ player, as he told Premier League Productions (11/12/23 at 5:45 pm).

The 41-year-old himself, for teams such as Tottenham and West Ham United, scored 163 Premier League goals, so he knows a thing or two about finding the back of the net.

And amongst the great players who have donned the colours of the Premier League from Thierry Henry to Cristiano Ronaldo, he thinks the Liverpool star stands among them, and rightly so.

What’s even more incredible is that Mohamed Salah still has more years left in his locker, that’s if he decides to stay at Anfield beyond this season.

Mohamed Salah – one of the Premier League’s greats

“It’s amazing, quite frightening really,” said Defoe. “The goals that he has scored. Always fit to play. All sorts of goals. Relentless.

“He is all about numbers, Salah. I think that’s why he is always available to play. He has probably looked at this list (of Liverpool’s all-time leading goalscorers) and thought ‘where can I get to?’ 

“I think if he is one-v-one, for a defender, it’s a nightmare – he is up there (as one of the Premier League greats).

“I think, especially, as you mentioned before about the big games. Doing it in the big games and scoring these types of goals, for me, he is definitely up there and what he has won as well.”

From Chelsea to Liverpool

When Salah was at Chelsea, not many would have predicted the Egypt star to hit the heights he has during his career.

That once out-of-sorts forward has now transformed into a big-game player and Chelsea fans will just be thinking ‘what if?’

The £35 million signing wasn’t the only one they let go, at the time, because Kevin de Bruyne was also on their books.

That would have been quite an incredible partnership which fans will now no longer get to see, as they are on either side of the two title challenges of the last few years – Manchester City and Liverpool.