Mohamed Salah or Didier Drogba? That was the debate between former Premier League players Alan Shearer and Micah Richards on BBC Match of the day. Former Newcastle United striker was debating with former Manchester City defender about the greatest African players in the Premier League. And their top 10 list is quite good actually, and both men agreed on the same Africans, just in a different order. And off course, it all came down to number one, which was Didier Drogba for Shearer and Mohamed Salah for Richards. Alan Shearer and Micah Richards rank their top 10 African Players to have Play in the Premier League pic.twitter.com/kQsqL9QTr7— Salah Central (@SalahCentral) April 13, 2022 And while Shearer didn’t have any problems with Salah’s performances and achievements since he came to the league in 2017, he still preferred the Ivory Coast legend. “For me, it’s Drogba just for the fact that he has four Premier League titles, four FA cups, nine goals in nine cup finals, one Champions League title and 177 goals for Chelsea, that is for me,” Shearer said as quoted by the London World” said Newcastle’s great. Shearer’s top 10:10: Jay-Jay Okocha9: Pierre-Emerick Aubameyang8: Emmanuel Adebayor7: Nwankwo Kanu6: Michael Essien5: Riyad Mahrez4: Yaya Toure3: Sadio Mane2: Mohamed Salah1: Dider DrogbaMohamed Salah on the other had has so far won the Premier League, the UEFA Champions League, and the Club World Cup in less than five years. He also won the Golden Boot twice and the PFA Player of the Year, among other achievements, while also becoming the club’s ninth all-time leading scorer with 153 goals. “So good they named him twice!” 🇳🇬Jay Jay Okocha signed for @OfficialBWFC #OnThisDay in 2002 ✨ pic.twitter.com/MYRlcotHDv— Premier League (@premierleague) June 18, 2021 Shearer also talked about famous Nigerian Jay Jay Okocha, who scored 18 goals in 142 games for Bolton under Sam Allardyce.”I think of him and I just think of someone who was happy. At Bolton, the players that they had there, that team was incredible. He was unbelivable. He didn’t score that many goals though. With someone of his ability you’d expect him I think to have got more but in terms of entertainment and all that. They did remarkably well to get him there really. PSG I think they got him from, on a free, so great business from Bolton. A very good player” said Shearer.
