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Oh, Moā¦ How naive you are.
The Ballon dāOr is just a popularity contest these days.
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Headline is misleading. Macca asks him if heād like to win the Balon dāor and Mo replies that heās concentrating on PL and CL. Thatās literally it
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Sadly so.
If he doesnāt win it, that point is certainly proven.
Itās more like the Oscars - you have to people petitioning for you, paying off voters etc. You the actual best player is has very little to do with it.
I expect Mbappe or Vinicius will get it next. Madrid were so angry last time and Ballon dāOr voters really donāt like upsetting Madrid.
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At least the Oscars does a job of promoting some worthy but niche films. Iāve never seen what the point of the The Ballon dāOr awards is. I mean you donāt get people worked up about Kicker or FourFourTwo awards.
I rather like the story of when Houllier told Michael Owen that he had been nominated and Owen shrugged.
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Im really hoping that contract will be sorted.
Can you imagine the uproar if we dont extend after the season he has had and possible 3 trophies.
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Not to forget that these stupid awards are over the calendar year, so who knows what Salah achieves together with us this season (hopefully at least a trophy, maybe two), if heās still here by the end of the transfer window and whatās his second part of 2025 like.
If he wins something important here like at least the league and continues being highly influential here or somewhere else (if itās not Saudi), he should be in the conversation.
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I can see tomorrowās headlines nowā¦
āSalah isnāt aware of present perfect continuous tense shocker!ā
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Thought Iād never see a better forward player than Suarez playing for Liverpool. And that included the likes of Torres Owen & Fowler
But Salah with his consistency and his ability of making the hard stuff look so ridiculously simple and obvious.
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Liverpool might not thank me, but get the contract out, put it on the table, let him sign it, let him write whatever numbers he wants to put on there given what heās done now, since heās come in and let him sign the contract and go. Salahās at the wheel man heās doing it, heās doing his thing, Liverpool are back!
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One of the things I am enjoying about this season from him is how front and center he put himself in speaking for the team. He was previously a pretty quiet guy, but he seems to have thrived in stepping into that role with some of the older lads having left. And heās really surprising me at how good he is at it.
Some might argue he is doing it as part of a contract negotiation (ālook at important I am to the changing roomā), but I think weāve got hints before that he was pretty central to the team culture behind the scenes and now heās just doing it more publicly.
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I think its just all the coffee he now drinksā¦
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There was an interview recently where he compared his leadership to Virgilās. Said heās not the shouty direct type but gets alongside players (at the coffee bar) and they open up to him. He said heād never āsnitchā to the manager which was quite funny.
Heās a superstar but managed to stay a decent human and team player. The opposite of Ronaldo
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Whatās most noticeable about Salah this season is that he seems to really enjoying himself, every moment of it. Look at his reaction after the second goal, as exhilarated as myself.
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Honestly thatās why Iām rooting for him to take NĆŗƱez under his wing. I think if thereās anyone in the squad who can help the latter, itās him.
Doesnāt harm that heās been learning Spanish of late too, I remember reading somewhere.
Carragher is apparently getting some backlash for saying that Salah wonāt win the ballon dāOr because he plays AFCON not the Euros or CONCACAF but I think this is exactly what he was talking about (rather than saying he doesnāt think he deserves it).
There always seems to be an excuse for Salah not winning or even being nominated for these awards. āHe doesnāt wow youā, āhe isnāt the most gracefulā, etc and all Carragher was saying is that the people who vote for the award donāt watch or give a fuck about AFCON - and they pretend that the Euros, World Cup or CONCACAF are top level competitions.
If we win the league and Champions League I think he will win it but otherwise I think someone at Madrid will because they seem to base their entire club around getting players to win that crap.
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