Ronaldo backs Madrid's plan to bring Mohamed Salah
MADRID - Real Madrid superstar, Cristiano Ronaldo, supports his team's plan to bring Liverpool winger Mohamed Salah. As reported by the Daily Express, Thursday (22/3/2018), Ronaldo attracted to action Salah who performed brilliantly with the Reds-nickname Liverpool-this season.
One imported Liverpool from AS Roma in the summer transfer market in 2017. Initially, Egyptian passport winger was digaet to be a competitor Sadio Mane to fight for the right winger position. However, Salah actually performs better than Mane. As a result, Mane was shifted and played in the left winger position.
With Liverpool this season, the 25-year-old winger has packed 36 goals and 12 assists from 41 matches. Especially in the English Premier League, Salah scored 28 goals from 30 matches. The achievement makes Salah for a while as the top score of the Premier League 2017-2018, winning four balls from Harry Kane (Tottenham Hotspur) in second place.
Even the legend of Arsenal, Ian Wright, mention Salah will leave to Madrid if get a concrete offer from the club headquartered at the Santiago Bernabeu. Wright believes that if Salah goes right, Liverpool will have a big negative impact.
Negative impact in question is the departure of Liverpool's goal source. Previously, Liverpool had felt the negative impact after left the player mainstay. In the English Premier League 2013-2014, Liverpool rely on Luis Suarez to ruffle the opponent's defense. As a result, Suarez came out as a top score with a collection of 31 goals, plus Liverpool finished in second position.
However, in the summer transfer market in 2014, El Pistolero-nickname Suarez- decided to leave to Barcelona. Suarez's departure directly lower the achievements of Liverpool in 2014-2015. In the Premier League 2014-2015, Liverpool only finish in sixth position.
Therefore, now Liverpool's duty is to convince Salah to want to stay at the Anfield Stadium. So far Salah admitted still at home in Liverpool, but it can not be used as collateral. Moreover, the club that interested him is Madrid who can memaransinya trophy, something he has not got with Liverpool this season.