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ECHO Comment: "Fears of Witch-hunt Against Liverpool FC" part 3



At the moment, he probably is.

Sky are wank, though.

If he truly was, he wouldn’t be at Liverpool. That’s the truth of it really. PSG, Madrid, City, Bayern have all spent money on attackers and none have gone for him. If PSG wanted him they’d have paid the money but instead they’ve emptied their wallets to get Messi and keep Mbappe for another season. If Salah was the best in the world why would they not have taken Madrid’s money for Mbappe and bought Salah? Or why would Madrid not just be using that money to buy Salah instead of Mbappe?

The answer is that he’s not, he’s just a very good forward who scored a good goal at the weekend and the RS media machine went into ridiculous overdrive.

If there was a poll of worldwide fans dream front three for their team there’d be a lot of people selecting Haaland, Mbappe, Neymar, Messi, Ronaldo, Lewandowski, Kane. Salah would be selected in some non Liverpool fan’s teams, but not in most of them, and if he’s the best player in the world why wouldn’t he be in the majority of teams?

I’d put a player like Son as extremely close to Salah as a wide forward who is very good and scores a lot of goals. Yet Son is never spoken about in the same circles as Salah Firmino or Mane. No one would say Sterling is up there despite his goal numbers being incredible season after season for a wide player. Even Hazard at his peak at Chelsea wasn’t being discussed this way even though I could find three goals of his off the top of my head that are all better than the one Salah scored. Yet when Coutinho had a purple patch under Klopp the media was asking whether Messi should make way for him at Barcelona.

It’s just nonsense click bait rubbish from a RS infested sports media.

Allison isn’t the best keeper in the world (he’s not even the best in Brazil)

Alexander Arnold isn’t the best RB (he almost didn’t make the England squad and isn’t first or second choice and struggles with defending)

Van Dijon has never been the best centre back in the prem, or the world, or of all time (I’m not even sure he’s ever been the best at Liverpool even)

Robertson is a very good left back but no other top CL team would have him in their team

Fabinho isn’t the best holding mid in the world and was playing utility right back for Brazil behind Casemiro in his position.

Thiago isn’t the best creative mix in the world like they reported when he signed. He can’t get in the Spain team and wouldn’t be in Liverpool’s first team now

None of the front three are the best in the world at anything.


They’ve got very good players and are a very good team but the media peddle a co start deluge of absolute guff about their players that just isn’t true.
 
Salah, Mane, Firmino, Keita and Oxlade-Chamberlain all out of contract in 2023

Can imagine Mane will want parity with Salah in any negotiations so not only will they have to break their wage structure once, they will have another dilema if they offer Mane less - do they break it for 2 players who will be 30/31 when their current deals expire?

Also, they need to offload Keita and AOC, both arnt worth new contracts as they are constantly injured, but cant see them getting much for either. Firmino has dropped quite a few levels from a couple years ago and again the wrong age.

Liverpool cant afford to sell Salah, but cant afford to keep him either as their whole model is sell to buy. But the others arnt as valuble plus if they look like they are touting Mane/Firmino/AOC etc to bring in money, you would just assume the players will then leave for free to choose their destination.

If Mane doesnt get what Salah gets he may leave for free. Same with Salah if they offer him pittance and he looks around the world at other players wages.

Very tricky situation for them
 

It’s relentless, Sky, BBC and TalkSPORT.

Wasn’t Alexander-Arnold best in ‘der werld ’ last week?
Best player in the world best right back in the world best Captain in the world best centre back in the world best midfielder with ideas in the world and still need the referees to ignore the fouls they give away in the box every week , the one thing they are the best at as pep Guardiola labelled them is the best team in the world at running and yet the media remain silent.
 
Salah, Mane, Firmino, Keita and Oxlade-Chamberlain all out of contract in 2023

Can imagine Mane will want parity with Salah in any negotiations so not only will they have to break their wage structure once, they will have another dilema if they offer Mane less - do they break it for 2 players who will be 30/31 when their current deals expire?

Also, they need to offload Keita and AOC, both arnt worth new contracts as they are constantly injured, but cant see them getting much for either. Firmino has dropped quite a few levels from a couple years ago and again the wrong age.

Liverpool cant afford to sell Salah, but cant afford to keep him either as their whole model is sell to buy. But the others arnt as valuble plus if they look like they are touting Mane/Firmino/AOC etc to bring in money, you would just assume the players will then leave for free to choose their destination.

If Mane doesnt get what Salah gets he may leave for free. Same with Salah if they offer him pittance and he looks around the world at other players wages.

Very tricky situation for them

Is this Catchers alt-account?
 
Top bracket players in their team and there is caveats on a lot of them.
Allison although his form has been shaky in 2021.
Alexander-Arnold offensively yes defensively he's not even average.
Virgil van Dijk pre injury yes not sure he's going to get back to them standards he might just be a very good CB.
Fabinho along with Rodri best DM in PL.
Salah seems to be on a 4 year golden streak. These things end hopefully sooner rather than later.

The rest of their team is a very functional unit that knows their job. They have a couple of players as back up but their 2nd 11 isn't much better than ours.
 

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