Mo Salah‘s odds of successful the Ballon d’Or will enhance if Liverpool win trophies and Arne Slot joked that it’d be unhealthy information for “for the one who has to pay him.”
Salah has come to the fore of the Ballon d’Or conversations throughout a marketing campaign that has seen him rating 30 and help 21 in 38 video games for the title favourites.
Liverpool are high of the Premier League and extensively acknowledged as champions-elect, whereas they’re additionally within the ultimate of the Carabao Cup and quarter-finals of the Champions League having topped the league section.
Whether or not proper or fallacious, group prizes improve a participant’s possibilities of successful particular person honours and Slot accepts that truth.
“It’s factor that Mo is within the dialogue, as a result of it means he does properly and it means we’re doing properly,” he mentioned on Tuesday.
“For him to remain in that dialogue he ought to usher in the identical performances as he’s executed for seven or eight months now.
“However I believe on the whole, somebody who wins the Ballon d’Or must win one thing as properly, so it’s an ideal problem that’s in entrance of us but in addition in entrance of him.
“What I preferred quite a bit is that he takes this problem not solely by scoring an enormous purpose and an ideal help towards Metropolis, however he additionally needed the group to win, as a result of his defensive work price, particularly within the second half, was excellent.
“That’s I believe what it takes for us to have an opportunity of successful one thing.
“If we as a group can win one thing, he may have a much better likelihood to win a person prize just like the Ballon d’Or.”
Slot’s pre-Newcastle press convention was dominated by questions following the same old Sky Sports activities narratives, which included comparisons between Salah and the height output of Lionel Messi and Cristiano Ronaldo.
“It’s so tough to match gamers with one another and it’s not honest to anybody,” Slot replied when requested if Salah’s present degree was matching the most effective of these two gamers.
“I believe Mo has his personal profession and I believe Mo has been excellent.
“Messi and Ronaldo each didn’t play the Premier League [at their peak]. I don’t need to convey them down, as a result of these two gamers are unbelievable, however that makes the comparability possibly much more tough.
“So Mo has had some excellent seasons right here at Liverpool and we hope he can proceed this for an extended time period.
“However to try this he first has to increase his contract, in fact!”
As the pinnacle coach talked about, Salah is having fun with arguably the most effective season of his profession whereas taking part in out what presently stands as the ultimate months of his time at Liverpool.
The membership stay in talks along with his consultant Ramy Abbas Issa however with no decision in sight, and Slot joked that Ballon d’Or-level kind may complicate the matter for Fenway Sports activities Group.
“You may have a look at that in each methods,” he mentioned.
“You may say the higher he does, the costlier he may turn out to be, and if would do a lot worse we might have second ideas that we need to prolong his contract!
“I believe for everybody it’s the most effective that he brings within the performances that he does now – possibly just for the one who has to pay him it’s not the most effective.
“For everybody else it’s the most effective, as a result of if you wish to play at this membership it’s essential be at his degree.
“In any other case most likely you’re nearly ineffective to play at this membership, as a result of we solely want gamers which can be on the high of their recreation, as a result of this is among the finest golf equipment or the most effective membership on the earth to play for.
“So he must have these performances for him to play right here and hopefully to increase right here.”
