Since he signed for Liverpool in 2017, Mohamed Salah has been arguably their best player in the next six years. He appeared in 332 games in all competition, scored 204 and assisted in 88 goals, won the Premier and the Champions League, along with FA Cup, League Cup, Super Cup and a FIFA Club World Cup. He was twice the African and a Footballer of the year, and three times top goal scorer in the Premier League. But everything could have ended differently if Liverpool bosses listened to Jurgen Klopp. Klopp admits he wishes Egypt to crash out of AFCON earlyAs it was revealed before, the German coach, who is now hoping that Salah will be eliminated quickly from AFCON in order to come back quickly to Liverpool was against his transfer to the Reds. Back in 2017, he did not have nothing personal against him, but was in favour of Julian Brandt, who is now a key player for Borussia Dortmund, but was playing in Bayer Leverkusen then. “When he initially came in, an interesting one was Mohamed Salah and Jurgen Klopp is open about this. He didn’t want to sign him, he wanted Julian Brandt. Liverpool had tried to sign Salah before he went to Chelsea and the people behind the scenes at Liverpool were still there and Salah then went to Roma, and they were very adamant that they had to sign this player. You look at what Mohamed Salah has done, but it could have easily gone the other way” Jamie Carragher said on the Stick to Football podcast.”I’m so happy to play in this wonderful African football tournament”Former Reds defender mentioned this interesting story in order to prove that giving the managers complete control over transfer decisions is not the best idea, and also aimed a dig at current Manchester United transfer policy, which rellies almost solely on head coach. “I do feel that this idea that managers should buy every player isn’t right, but a manager shouldn’t have a player pushed on him. I don’t think a manager should just be able to do what he wants, you look at Manchester United and it’s worrying, it feels as if Erik ten Hag just bought every player he knows” said Carragher. And it looks like he’s right (this time). ##NAJAVA_MECA_7789079##
