The reaction to Mo Salah\u2019s exit goes on and now Liverpool fans are saying that he is not in the same class as Luis Suarez.<\/p>\n
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If we are going down that route<\/a> here\u2019s my quick two penneth.<\/p>\n Greatest Liverpool player? Kenny Dalglish. Always will be.<\/p>\n Best Liverpool player (it\u2019s a different thing imo \u2013 it\u2019s about overall ability) \u2013 in this order \u2013 Luis Suarez, Steven Gerrard, Mo Salah. \u00a0<\/p>\n \u2026Minty, LFC wrote in to the Mailbox<\/a>, saying \u201cI think I can say with some confidence Mo is the best I\u2019ve ever seen play.\u201d This makes me wonder, did Minty choose not to watch Luis Suarez? Or did he forget Luis Suarez? Or has he somehow truly concluded that Luis Suarez was not a better player than Mohammed Salah?<\/p>\n Cards on the table, I have always appreciated \u2013 but never loved \u2013 Mo Salah. There has not been a single moment in the last 9 years when I would have picked him as my favorite Liverpool player. Last season is the only one where I would have picked him as the best\/most important player in the team, either because I am very much a Sadio Man\u00e9 man, or because I considered Virgil and Allison more fundamentally irreplaceable than Salah.<\/p>\n But I can acknowledge that all of that is just my own \u2018left-field\u2019 opinion. What I cannot wrap my head around is that anyone with two eyes and a brain would say that Luis Suarez was not a better player than Mohammed Salah. \u00a0<\/p>\n \u2026For me, Salah doesn\u2019t belong in the same category as Henry or Shearer.<\/p>\n And that\u2019s because he lacks the mantle to which both these guys can lay claim.<\/p>\n I love Liverpool. It\u2019s one of my favourite cities in the whole of the country. The people are among the friendliest I have ever encountered. And the first time I visited I had a fantastic time. There was one element however, that really capped off my trip.<\/p>\n As I was waiting for my train to pull out of Liverpool Lime Street, I looked out of the window and saw a figure walking up the platform.<\/p>\n The figure was immediately recognisable as the greatest striker I ever saw play for Liverpool.<\/p>\n It was Liverpool\u2019s record goalscorer Ian Rush.<\/p>\n Salah is good, but no one, NOONE comes close to Rushy, and I say that as a gooner. \u00a0<\/p>\n \u2026RHT\/TS x (just because you put a kiss after being awful doesn\u2019t make you nice)<\/a>. Oh goody, we get to hear a weekly running commentary from rival fans \u2013 who have spent the entire season saying how shite Salah is \u2013 about how irreplaceable he is.<\/p>\n To us, and normal football fans, he has been brilliant and is one of the Prem\u2019s greatest players, so of course we\u2019ll miss him. I still miss Gerrard. I still miss Bobby.<\/p>\n But we\u2019ve won the title since those two legends left and we\u2019ll win it again after Mo has departed with our love, eternal thanks and best wishes. Why is it so hard to understand and why all the snark?<\/p>\n And please explain how the man who helped stop City 115 turning the Prem into a farmer\u2019s league (and lifted every trophy there is to win) is a \u2018lanky chancer\u2019. You are one weird individual . . . \u00a0<\/p>\n Ask a Man Utd fan\u2026<\/p>\n Laughed out loud at the headline \u201cHas Mo Salah usurped Stevie G as the best Liverpool fans have ever seen?\u201d.<\/a><\/p>\n It\u2019s not even close. It\u2019s like comparing apples to a pebble. Mo Salah has had 100x more impact at Liverpool than Gerrard. Stop it now with this nonsense. This comes from a United fan who dislikes Salah for all he has done to us.<\/p>\n Cheers. \u00a0<\/p>\n How is Salah different to Trent?<\/p>\n To all Liverpool fans, I would like to see the same bad energy given to Salah as it was given to Trent. It seems one can be given bad press while the other revels in the adoration of his own selfishness, by announcing two months before the season ends he\u2019s leaving on a free, with a year left.<\/p>\n Some Liverpool fans will say \u201cbut it\u2019s Salah he\u2019s allowed to leave on a free\u201d \u2013 as if he\u2019s being held hostage by LFC. It truly shows how fickle you lot are. \u00a0<\/p>\n \u2026Nice work by the Mailbox Compiler this morning<\/a>, giving RHT\u2019s \u201chere come the mawkish LFC reactions\u201d top billing before following up with a few examples of said reactions.<\/p>\n In the space of 5 minutes of reading I saw Mo Salah hailed as Liverpool\u2019s Greatest Player Of The Last 35 Years, a singular force for Muslim awareness across the country, and akin to a much-loved dog. Mentions of charity work too, which are always nice to read. Fair play on that count.<\/p>\n But isn\u2019t this the same guy who used the media to manipulate the club into giving him a gigantic contract extension last season, before proceeding to regress alarmingly and then throwing his toys out of the pram via a hissy fit-shaped nuke as he was pissing off to AFCON last winter? Did I imagine all of that?<\/p>\n Glorify his past achievements on the pitch all you want, he fully earned the kudos for his output and success. But that announcement last night just crystallises the scale of Salah\u2019s fall from grace. Cancelling the final year of his contract is an admission that his current status doesn\u2019t justify either his wages or any fee Liverpool might have hoped to secure. More bad decision-making coming home to roost.<\/p>\n It all has a whiff of the end of Ronaldo\u2019s second spell at United, albeit less explosive and thankfully not involving that fuckwit Piers Morgan. A legendary player whose efforts to fight the dying of the light became a bit embarrassing before everyone decided it was best if they were nudged off the stage.<\/p>\n One other aspect to this situation is that it creates a sideshow that will follow Liverpool for the remainder of the season. Similar to the mess with Alexander-Arnold last year, Salah\u2019s every move now becomes an inbuilt point of focus. Time will tell what impact it may have, but you\u2019d understand if Slot now uses the opportunity to bench him and limit his time to cameo appearances. Liverpool need results more than he needs a lap of honour. \u00a0<\/p>\n Salah one of the best in Premier League<\/p>\n With the announcement that Salah is leaving Liverpool<\/a> I\u2019d hope despite a much more down than up season you\u2019ll get plenty of mails from Liverpool fans praising just how good Salah has been for them. From an Arsenal fan I\u2019d put him right up there as maybe one of the top 3 players to play in the Premier League. Naturally goal-scorers and attacking players rank more highly than defenders because the hardest thing is putting the ball in the back of the net, and Salah did it consistently\u2026and a lot. He was the absolute talisman through Liverpool\u2019s golden period and I\u2019m sure all Liverpool\u2019s rivals will be glad to see the back of him.<\/p>\n I\u2019m an Arsenal fan so naturally I\u2019m still putting Thierry Henry above Salah, their stats are comparable but I just think Henry is a better footballer, technically and for me was capable of more spectacular and varied goals and moments of skill.<\/p>\n But, Salah \u2013 phenomenal Premier League great, literally from the moment he stepped on the pitch for Liverpool. Good luck replacing him. \u00a0<\/p>\n \u2026I don\u2019t tend to write in to sports websites much but the response to Salah leaving Liverpool is so bitter and churlish from your usual bitter and churlish \u201ccontributors\u201d has me doing a little research, just so there can be little doubt about the points I am going to make.<\/p>\n Salah has dropped off this season, and the pace and physical nature of the premiership is too much for him at this stage of his career. It was worth the gamble to extend his contract though, bearing in mind that the decision was made, like all decisions, without hindsight. We lose him on a free this June instead of last June. The only alternative to this story was to sell him to some club in the Middle East the previous season for a king\u2019s ransom<\/a>, but had we done that, we wouldn\u2019t have won the league last year.<\/p>\n Salah has played, so far, 323 games in the league, scoring 191 goals, contributing 94 assists, meaning a goal contribution every 92.9 minutes. He won seven major trophies at Liverpool.<\/p>\n Thierry Henry, a player that only an idiot would argue is not one of the greatest players to grace the modern English game, comes in a 258 games, 175 goals, 79 assists, GC every 84 minutes. He won 5 major trophies in England, most of them FA Cups. He also played for a team that was already challenging regularly for the league when he joined them, with their longest serving manager at the reigns. Wenger\u2019s Arsenal were arguably peaking when he joined them (Invincible season was 2003-4).<\/p>\n The only two players with greater goal contributions played, pretty much, their entire careers in England (Rooney did have an American swansong) \u2013 Shearer and Rooney, and they were out and out strikers (although Rooney did drop deeper later in his career), and even then, their minutes per contribution were at a far higher figure than Salah.<\/p>\n Who was the best? It doesn\u2019t really matter, everyone will have an opinion.<\/p>\n But does Salah deserve to be spoken of as one of the best? Without any doubt at all, unless you are the prize plum amongst prize plums.<\/p>\n The time is right for Salah to go, everyone knows it, but it\u2019s been a privilege having him play for Liverpool. And yes, there will be an emotional send off, and yes, the bitter and churlish residents here will hate it.<\/p>\n Good. \u00a0<\/p>\n On Ipswich naivety, a Salah replacement and more<\/p>\n
Shunt \u2013 LFC<\/p>\n
Oliver Dziggel, Geneva Switzerland<\/p>\n
Graham Simons, Gooner, Norf London<\/p>\n
Jo (Top 3 of King Kenny\/Stevie G\/Egyptian King) living in Mo\u2019s world<\/p>\n
Aman<\/p>\n
Leo<\/p>\n
Keith Reilly<\/p>\n
Rich, AFC<\/p>\n
Max Bedroom<\/p>\n