- Mohamed Salah leads the Premier League in both goals and assists this season
- The Egyptian would become the second African footballer to win the prize
- Listen now: Everything is starting! Is there an agenda against Ange Postecoglou?
Mohamed Salah was the unanimous choice for the Ballon d'Or of 2025 between the CBS Sports Panel of the former Premier League stars.
Before the games of the Wednesday Champions League, Thierry Henry, Jamie Carragher and Micah Richards were his opinion about the probable winner of the award in October.
The winner of last season, Rodri, remained only on stage when he received the prestigious honor after the sensational boycott of Real Madrid of the ceremony after discovering that Vinicius Jr had been overlooked.
Richards shared the opinion that the Desaira could tell in favor of the Brazilian this time. But finally I agreed with Henry and Carragher that Salah should take the GONG, if it maintains its extraordinary level of production.
“I'm with Jamie,” Henry said after the Reds legend introduced the Egyptian. “If you continue like this, wins safely.”
The 32 -year -old is the favorite among betting runners to become the second African footballer to win the prize thanks to his surprising form of this campaign.
(LR) Thierry Henry, Jamie Carragher and Micah Richards agreed on who should win the ball of Or
Mohamed Salah is the favorite of the betting runners to win the ball d'Or after his surprising performances this season
The Manchester City star, Rodri, took the award last year after helping Manchester City to win the Premier League and Spain in the European Championship
Salah leads the Premier League for goals and assists with 21 and 13, respectively. It gives you an amazing contribution of 34 goals of only 23 flight games.
The Reds enjoy a dominant advantage in the upper part of the League and have the opportunity to extend their leadership over Arsenal to nine points with a victory in the Derby of Merseyside on Wednesday night.
The Arne Slot team are also the favorites to win the Champions League after overcoming the phase of the League with seven victories of its eight games.
However, the hopes of ensuring an extraordinary quadruple vanished on Sunday afternoon when the reds suffered a 1-0 loss against the fighters of the Plymouth Argyle championship in the FA Cup.
Even so, in addition to their form in the League and in Europe, the Reds have the opportunity to claim the first great honor of the season when they face Newcastle in the Cup Copao final next month.
Salah is one of the three Liverpool stars out of the contract at the end of the season. The striker has made several comments that indicate that this will be his last year in Anfield and the close friend and former teammate of the Reds Leave Lovren even said that the club has not shown Salah enough respect during the negotiations.
The manager or the club has not been news about the ongoing contractual situation.
Liverpool fans will wait for their talisman, the fourth highest scorer in the club, to remain beyond the end of the term.