Arne Slot has said Mohamed Salah’s continual hunger for more is what makes the departing Liverpool forward ‘special’.
Salah will leave Liverpool in the summer after a mutual agreement between the Egyptian and club was confirmed last week.
The 33-year-old has been one of the most influential players in Liverpool’s history, with Salah the third-highest goalscorer for the club and a record three-time winner of the PFA Player of the Year Award.
He won the third of those awards after firing Slot’s side to the Premier League title last season and the Liverpool boss has opened up on how Salah has impressed him during his time at Anfield.
“I think it was very good to hear and see all the reactions of his teammates, but also from everywhere around the world, for what he has done for this football club and for football in general,” Slot said.
“I’ve mainly seen this as a fan, so watching football, seeing him playing at Liverpool, doing all these special things that he’s done for this club. Of course, in the fixtures against [Manchester] City but in all the other fixtures as well. He broke record after record after record.
“Then I started working with him and already the first day I was impressed by his professionalism because as with any season, it starts with a test that shows how much they did in the off-season and he beat all of them. He was the fittest player that came back, and I think that’s the ideal situation that you want as a manager: that your star player comes back as fit as he did.
“He had nothing to prove, but for himself he had a lot to prove because Mo always thinks he has to prove something every three days. That hunger never stops and that is something that I find most special about him.”
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