The Egyptian often acts as an opportunist in the final third of the pitch, although that approach has proved to be of great benefit to the team.
Mohamed Salah is “greedy” and “the most selfish player,” says Graeme Souness as he compliments the Liverpool star in a distinctive fashion.
Salah has started the season in phenomenal form, scoring 12 goals in 11 games across the Premier League and Champions League for Liverpool.
The 29-year-old has been making great efforts in standing shoulder to shoulder to the world’s most prolific goalscorers ever since arriving at Anfield in 2017, having notched up 137 goals in 214 appearances ever since.
It is being argued that the Egyptian forward now deserves the title of the world’s best player – a title that has been carried by Cristiano Ronaldo and Lionel Messi for a while now.
“I agree with Jurgen Klopp that Mohamed Salah has been the best player in the world this season,” Souness wrote in his latest column for The Times.
“He is perhaps as greedy a player as I have seen. All the top names have an element of that but he is extremely selfish.
“Personal targets are important to him and he shoots from every possible angle, which frustrates his team-mates at times — especially Mane. The other players accept it because he is so good.
“When he doesn’t square it, he is either scoring or making goalkeepers work so that the follow-up is a tap-in for someone anyway, which makes it hard for anyone to criticise him.
“He may even take it as a compliment that I think he is the most selfish player I have seen because he is a goal machine.”
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