Speaking about Mo Salah’s performances for Liverpool this season, Peterborough United chairman and Reds’ fan Darragh MacAnthony said: “I was thinking about this on Saturday. They get a lot of criticism for selling their best players. Suarez, Coutinho, people like that and whatever.
“But you look at some of the players where they have changed that tact now and they have kept Firmino and Salah past the age of 30 and they have paid them massive, big contracts.
“And you’re like, was it better if they went at 28? If we had sold Mo Salah a year ago and got £60, 70, 80 million for Salah? Because I’m watching him at the moment and he’s the other side of 30 and he’s on half a million a week, and I’m a Mo Salah fan, and I don’t recognise him.
“Yeah, the team isn’t playing well but he plays a big part of that. He can’t hold the ball up to save his life, his chance to scoring rate has dropped off a cliff and now you’re like well I’ve got another two and half years of him on half a million. Does that get better when you go past the age of 30?
“A player like Salah when the game is pace, agility, fitness, pressing – as you get older – and I’m not writing him off, but I’m just looking at it going, you know.”
Salah has experience a drop in performance levels from last season and struggled since the turn of the year. His bad form has coincided with Liverpool’s drop in performances too, with nothing going right for the two.
The Egyptian forward still has some good numbers for this season, having scored 17 goals and provided 7 assists in 31 appearances.
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