Mohamed Salah for Fwa Footballer of the Year: Why Liverpool Forward is the only candidate for reward

In the end, it’s a game with numbers. And the numbers of Mohamed Salah tell the story. Twenty -eight goals. Eighteen assists. The player who scored the most goals and scored the most goals must be a football player of the year of the football writers’ Association.

A total of 46 combined goals and assists are 17 more than Alexander Isak and almost twice as much as any other Premier League player. There has never been a bigger gap in the history of competition between a man with the most participation in the goal and the rest.

When these amazing numbers also provided the Premier League title for Liverpool, it cannot be a serious argument for any other candidate. Salah was a manufacturer of the difference this season, a decisive character of an extraordinary team in the country.

He set the tone in his first three games, but he really ended it with his points later in the year. There was an equalization against Arsenal, a winner against Brighton and two while Liverpool came again from behind to win Southampton.

It was Salah’s goal that sealed the win against Manchester City in early December twice in Newcastle and again in Tottenham. Until the passing of the year, Salah had 30 combined goals and assists before anyone else collected 20.

Salah’s spectacular season is also the story of an unmatched longevity. It’s been eight years since he signed for Liverpool from Rome and seven since he first became the top scorer of the Premier League. This makes him the longest range of victories in this era.

In an interview with Ian Graham, a former Liverpool research chief, at the beginning of the season, he said Sky Sports: “Chelsea beat Mo Salah in 2014, but the player we received in 2017 was much closer to the finished product.” He couldn’t even expect it.

“When we signed MO, it was not clear that he would be our best player,” he admitted. “For Jurgen (Klopp) to understand the player he received, he is a great credit for him.” The same can be said for Arne’s slot for even more than Salah this season.

There was no guarantee at the age of 32. Conventional wisdom may have suggested that the Dutch inherits someone on a slide. Salah once struggled with Eden Hazard to be the best wing player of the league. Hazard was born in 1991. Salah 1992.

It is now spoken of as a potential Bob Paisley on Klopp Bill Shankly, but in the summer they were whispered that it could be shown more similar to Graeme Souness by replacing Kenny Dalglish -As, given the number of key players who were already in their thirties.

Salah’s form, not to mention his physical conditioning, gave riding of such proposals. Asked Sky Sports Regardless of whether the groove played a role in improving him, Salah replied, “You see numbers, it seems that I don’t have to defend much.”

By expanding on that change, he added, “It’s quite difficult to say one thing, but the tactics are completely different. But I told him,” As long as you take me in defense, I will give it offensively ” – so I am glad to be. It was the idea of ​​a manager, but he listened a lot. ”

The result of these adjustments is that it is far from inheritance of the force of the pale, the slot managed to use one of the best versions of Salah. Not a young tear of his pool days, not even an explosive figure that first shook the dig, but something else.

Salah is now considered more. None of his 28 goals in the Premier League have come beyond the criminal frame this season. This is not because he forgot how to shoot, he just makes different decisions. That decision -making separates it.

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There is an economy of movement, but the effectiveness of this thinking. For his teammates, he created a far clearer chance than any other Premier League player. His help for Luis Diaz’s goal against West Ham was recently a great example of it.

“Sometimes it’s about Sagittarius, it’s about help,” Jamie Carragher said Sky Sports. “That passage is absolute perfection from Salah. The weight of it, outside the boots. We have often seen it this season – Salah is not just in goals.”

These goals and assists helped win the Liverpool title, repaying the groove for his trust in him. Mohamed Salah is not over yet after signing a new contract at the club. But this season will take some top. He is the final FWA footballer of the year.