Since then, Salah has played 332 games for Liverpool, scoring 204 goals and becoming one of the best players of the Premier League era. Mohamed Salah was interesting when he first arrived and Jurgen Klopp is open to that,” Carragher told the Stick to Football podcast. He didn’t want to sign him, he wanted Julian Brandt. Liverpool tried to sign Salah before he went to Chelsea and the people behind the scenes at Liverpool were still there, Salah then went to Roma and they were convinced they had to buy the player. “You can see from what Mohamed Salah has done, it might go the other way.”I don’t think a manager should buy every player, but he shouldn’t let one player put pressure on him.
I don’t think a manager can do exactly what he wants. It worries me when I look at Manchester United. He (Erik ten Hag) seems to have bought every player he knows.”
Salah, who signed for Roma in 2017, has become one of Liverpool’s best players of the modern era. Carragher said Klopp was keen to sign Borussia Dortmund star Julian Brandt from Bayer Leverkusen at the time.
Carragher said the club’s decision to select Salah shows why managers don’t always have the final say on transfers.
