Mohamed Salah is ‘unrecognisable’ at Liverpool this season, with the Egyptian preoccupied with himself and not helping the team.
That’s according to journalist Toni Tomic, who believes the Egyptian, Trent Alexander Arnold and Virgil van Dijk are the ‘faces of the crisis’ engulfing Anfield.
Liverpool have started this season in poor form, with just two wins from their first ten league games so far.
They’re currently sitting tenth in the table following the weekend defeat to Arsenal, and 14 points behind the Gunners, who top the table.
The big issue has been several star players being far from their best, with Salah currently at the top of that list.
He’s managed just five goals in all competitions this season and only two in eight in the Premier League, a far cry from the kind of numbers he’s posted in recent years.
He was particularly poor in Liverpool’s defeat to Arsenal on Sunday, barely impacting the game before being substituted in the 69th minute.
Tomic saw that performance and believes the Egyptian star is unrecognisable from the player we’ve been accustomed to.
“Van Dijk, Trent, Salah. The faces of the crisis. All preoccupied with themselves. What the collective suffers from,” he told Sky Sports Germany.
“There is also a lack of goals from Mo Salah. I’ve never seen Salah in a Reds shirt as invisible as he was against Arsenal. He’s not winning the one-on-one duels anymore, he’s not scoring, he’s unrecognisable.
“Four goals only after a quarter of the season: two in the Premier League, two in the Champions League. One of them a penalty. Yet he only signed the best-paid contract at LFC in the summer.”
