Manchester United legend Gary Neville has eulogized Egypt international Mohammed Salah, saying he is unplayable at the moment.
Salah, whose contract expires at the end of the season has been in a tremendous form for Liverpool this season, scoring 30 goals and providing 20 assists across competitions.
The 32-year-old forward scored and assisted a goal as Liverpool thumped Manchester City 2-0 at the weekend in the Premier League.
And speaking on the Gary Neville Podcast, the former England international heaped praise on Salah.
“He’s been class for his whole time at Liverpool,” began Neville. “He’s unplayable at the moment, psychologically he’s in the head of the opponent that he’s up against. When you play against someone that you think, ‘I’m gonna smash him, I’m gonna knock him, I’m gonna go through him’ — you can’t.
“He’s like a brick wall. When that ball gets played up to him from 40-50 yards from Alisson and he’s chesting it down and holding off [Josko] Gvardiol who is six foot three like he’s a little boy, and he’s been doing that all season. I’ve not seen that in the past.
“When [Virgil] van Dijk pings an 80-yard pass to him in the second half and you just know he’s going to bring it down perfectly on a sixpence.
“Everything is so polished and so perfect and so slow. And when I say slow I mean, being in the final third is the most frantic place of a football pitch, but everything just feels so composed and slow motion when he’s on the ball, you know he’s going to play the pass at the right moment, you know it’s going to be the right weight of pass, you know he’s going to play the right cross, you know he’s going to be efficient with his shooting.
“He’s at the top of his game, he’s a different level to anything else in the league this season in terms of his performance levels and he is world class. Liverpool obviously will be desperate to try and keep him.
“He’s one of the very best players that the Premier League has seen. That’s 11 games this season that he’s had a goal and an assist in each game, it’s amazing, absolutely amazing.”
Salah’s performances have been crucial for Liverpool in both Premier League and Champions League campaigns.
The Reds remains contenders for the Premier League and Champions League respectively this season due to their impressive performances.
