25 goals and 16 assists in 27 games, 11 games with both goals and assists and equalling Messi’s record. This is the season so far for Mohamed Salah. Still, the Premier League’s top scorer is barely mentioned in connection with the Ballon d’Or award. Arsene Wenger and former Liverpool player Daniel Sturridge believe someone now needs to wake up.
On Sunday, Salah scored and assisted against Manchester City and contributed greatly to Arsenal being 11 points behind in the Premier League table. After the game, Sturridge and Arsene Wenger agreed that Salah must be considered for the title this time.
-We are talking Ballon d’Or now. If we don’t talk about the Ballon d’Or with Mohamed Salah, then it gets out of control. We need to start bringing him into that conversation now, I don’t even know if he’s had a top five vote or a top three vote yet,” Sturridge said on Sky Sports.
Arsen Wenger hangs on.
-You can’t rule him out for any special price, this guy is exceptional. What I love most about his career [is] that he got better and better every year. More clinically, he does less in quantity, but he doesn’t lose in quality, the coaching legend begins.
Who can’t stop talking about Salah.
“What I like in his career, in his development, is that he has found a good balance between the obsession with scoring goals and passing the ball on. You know, we had the period between him and Mane, there was tension because everyone was trying to score without giving up the ball, and he understands that to be really great, he has to contribute as well. He has done extremely well,” Wenger boasts.
We agree with the two, high time to get Salah into the conversation about the Ballon d’Or award.
