by devaney » Tue Nov 14, 2023 9:26 am
Mo Salah !! WHAT A PLAYER !! 200 GOALS AND A BAGFUL OF ASSISTS AND SOME PEOPLE ACTUALLY STILL CRITICISE HIM, which frankly beggars belief!! Mo’s contribution at Liverpool has been nothing short of miraculous. Mo is certainly one of Liverpool‘s greats if not the greatest of all time. Liverpool paid £36.9m for Mo in 2017 which was a club record at the time. I’ve got to admit I really wasn’t particularly excited about the deal. Previously Mo had scored just 2 goals for Chelsea in his his initial Premiership experience and certainly didn’t set the world on fire. I guess we owe Chelsea a debt of gratitude for being so incredibly incompetent and not getting the best out of him. In 2014/15 Mo scored 2 goals in 13 games, during his first season at Chelsea, after they had paid £11m for him from Basel. In 2015 Mo went on loan to Florentina followed by a loan spell at Roma before they eventually bought him for £12m in 2016. Mo averaged nearly a goal every two games with both Florentina and Roma. Mo had started to look like a better player but let’s face it Serie A is full of some very average teams. Roma reluctantly sold Mo to Liverpool in 2017 when they were in trouble with the Financial Fair Play rules. Chelsea received £2.7m from Roma as they had insisted on a sell on clause. That was possibly the only clever thing that Chelsea did with regard to Mo. In total Chelsea made a £3.7m profit on their £11m outlay which let’s face it at the time they were probably quite satisfied with. No doubt now they wonder where it all went wrong with Mo Salah !! WHAT A PLAYER !!
It’s also goes without saying that Mo owes an incredible debt of gratitude to both Jürgen Klopp and Liverpool Football Club for having the vision to buy him and bringing the very best out of him. He is now one of the highest paid players in the world with a potential transfer value of between £150m to £250m. Frankly, I wouldn’t sell him for a penny less than £250m to that collection of sports washing parasites. Personally, I think Mo would be making a great mistake going to Saudi Arabia. Their football, as several former Liverpool players are discovering is nothing short of a joke. In 2024 Mo will be playing in front of 61000 adoring fans at Anfield. Compare that to the crowd of 700 that Jordan Henderson, recently played in front of in Saudi !! To say that it would be a complete waste of one of footballs finest players would be a complete understatement. In my opinion, given Mo’s ability to keep himself extremely fit and injury free it would be no surprise that he could continue playing at a very high level until his late thirties.
Net Spend Over The Last 5 Years 20/21 to 24/25 (10 years
are in brackets 15/16 to 24/25 )
LFC €300m (€420m)
Everton +€33m (€211m)
Arsenal €557m (€853m)
Spurs €571m (€684m)
Chelsea €945m (€1051m)
Man City €370m (€1038m)
Man United €687m (€1240m)