Now overtaken Aguero as top foreign goalscorer in PL. 5th in all time top scorer. With another 2 seasons, he has every realistic chance to overtake Kane to be 2nd behind Shearer.
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Moâs goal today was a thing of beauty.
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Mohamed Salah:
âNow [this season], I donât have to defend much. The tactics are quite different. I said to him, âAs long as you rest me defensively I will provide offensivelyâ. I am glad that I did. He listened a lot and you can see my numbers.â 
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A lot of cases , heâs the furthest attacking player. His base position might be as a winger but he does function as the widish target man recieving those balls from VVD / Trent.
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Should get it. Hope he gets 30 goals.
Of course the first two had an extra 4 games, assuming thatâs 93/94 and 94/95 and that Alan didnât go back in time to 1993.
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Yep Shearer and Cole had and extra 4 games
And didnât have to endure the punishment Mo gets with the pulling and dragging on a match after match basis.
Shearer was Ingurland captain and Cole was Fergies boy, so both were untouchable.
What Mo Salah has achieved is phenomenal. He is in the conversation for the very best ever footballers to play in England, let alone our great club.
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Yep his numbers donât lie and remember he has done it from a right wing position!!!
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Mo has done so well and deserves all the credit he gets. He admits he has been excused of his defensive duties, and he has delivered offensively. All good. And for me, credit to the rest of the team to accommodate this. For example, Gravenberch shifting right mid to plug gaps when needed, and Konate covering acres of ground from the right centre back spot, etc.
Mo is brilliant and he deserves all the credit he gets. But Iâm also looking at the team doing its thing to give him that platform.
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And Slot. So many people have been convinced a strict philosophy is needed to be tactically adept. Slot has an idea of what effective football looks like, but that does not dictate all of his decisions. Not when the other team are doing something we can exploit with a tweak, or when the game is going in a direction that we need to address. And not when we have a special player who can be elevated with another tweak.
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Glad he is staying in a way.
In a way?
Good to hear some of that top ambition from time to time.
And yes, in public.
Have to be honest, amongst our famous trio of attackers, Bobby, Mane and him, I expected him to leave first. But he ended up, showing that he really wants to stay and showed that he deserves to stay. Legend status no doubt for the achievements and his attitude.
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Figure of speech.
It sounds to me like you arenât that bothered, but sort of grudgingly accept the situation.
I doubt thatâs what you meant. Thatâs why I was confused.
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