LIVERPOOL STAR MOHAMED Salah revealed his desire to prove critics wrong from his time at Chelsea had motivated him this season.
Salah has scored 43 goals in all competitions this campaign, leading Liverpool to the Champions League final.
The 25-year-old collected both Liverpool’s Player and Players’ Player of the Season awards last night, as well as the Football Writers’ Association Footballer of the Year prize.
Salah has dominated the Premier League after an unsuccessful stay at Chelsea, who had the Egypt international on their books from 2014-16.
The superstar striker said he always wanted to return to England to silence his critics.
“I was here four years ago and a lot of people said he couldn’t [have] success, that I cannot play in the Premier League, [that] it was very difficult for him,” Salah said.
So it was always in my mind to come back. From the first day I left Chelsea, it was always in my mind to make them wrong.
“I made them wrong.”
Liverpool are close to sealing a top-four finish in the Premier League ahead of hosting Brighton and Hove Albion on the final day on Sunday. The Reds can lock down a spot in next year’s Champions League with a draw, or if Chelsea fail to win against Newcastle United.
Should the Reds lose Sunday and miss out on the Champions League via the Premier League standings, the club could still land a spot in next year’s tournament if they defeat Real Madrid in this year’s final on 26 May in Kiev.
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Doesn’t he mean his critics at the time as opposed to Chelsea itself? Clickbait?
@Beanstalk: players like him never do well playing under an attacking coach
@Alana: *defensive
@Alana: made a right balls of that one didn’t you..
@Scottyyyyyy: just like Jose did with Mo at Chelsea
@Alana: clown
@Ardmore02: ur a bigger clown for responding to him
@Alana: for ur own wellfare…get help
@John Williams: you call someone a clown for responding to me and the you respond to me. Does that make you a clown ?
@John Williams: oh yea it’s “you’re” and other cases “your”. Kids use “ur”
@John Williams: lol
@Alana: and in this case alan it’s “you are” a clown.
@Ardmore02: no it’s John that is
Get over it mo you had your chance but you failed…continuously harping on about it is not going to give you the 2 premiership medals yiu would have got if you had proven good enough. Now you are enjoying a measure of success ( sic.) at a club with that has not won its domestic title for almost 3 decades , enjoy it .
@Joe O’riordan: Saucer of milk for one.
@Running Down The Wing: Exactly ye are history.
@Running Down The Wing: the president of Ukraine?
@Joe O’riordan: Mourinho never gave him a chance and stifled his attacking instinct with his anti-football philosophy.
Stuck in Mo lad