Salah is very much still Jurgen Klopp’s main man for the Reds. He’s started the Premier League season in fine form, with 10 goals in 14 games as well as six assists.
The Egyptian signed a new, incentivised deal until 2025 12 months ago, which made him the highest-paid player in the club’s history, and he will be key to Liverpool’s hopes of re-establishing themselves after a disappointing campaign last season, when they finished fifth. Salah is just one goal away from becoming just the fifth player in the club’s history to reach 200 goals. However, there are plenty of Reds supporters who believe the Egyptian, who arrived from AS Roma in the summer of 2017, does not get the credit he deserves.
And when asked by Sportskeeda if Salah is underappreciated by the football world as a whole, Garcia replied: “I totally understand where you are coming from.
“I guess because he’s a very quiet player, a player who doesn’t seek big headlines, and has never been in trouble and these kinds of things. It happens; I mean, you have to be involved in something to kind of be appreciated. “With Salah, I think that when there was a chance that he could leave Liverpool, then everybody started saying, ‘hold on, hold on, because Salah is an ever-important player’.
“There are moments when I think that people understand that. He’s one of the most important players in the past 10 years and one of the best players in the last 50 years for Liverpool.
“So, I guess that people who really follow Liverpool and truly know how important he is, appreciate him, and I think that he feels loved.” Asked where Salah ranks in terms of Anfield greats, Garcia replied: “Wow, that’s a tough question!
“There are lots of important players from the past that we haven’t seen too much of. I had a chance of working with Steve Nicol, who back in the day was another of the big players of the 80s.
“Of course, there are legends like Kenny Dalglish and Ian Rush. I always talk about Robbie Fowler because when I was growing up, Robbie Fowler was always there… Steven Gerrard, of course, there are so many important players. “For me personally, Kenny Dalglish was a very special player because he had a kind of style of play that I liked. There are all the ones that liked Rush because he scored top goals, a machine of scoring goals. There are all the ones that will tell you about Steven Gerrard.
“I had the chance to play with Steven Gerrard, and he could do everything; he could play as a full-back, as a striker, as a midfielder.
“So, it’s very difficult, but Salah has to be in, let’s call it, the top 10. In fact, even in the top five, if you consider all the goal-scoring numbers and what he has won and everything. “For me, personally, though, I think that I will have to choose between Kenny Dalglish and Steven Gerrard.”
Former Liverpool forward Luis Garcia has delivered his verdict on Mohamed Salah’s legacy and revealed where he would rank the forward in terms of Anfield greats.
