“Mosalah Tops Ronaldo This Season” – Liverpool Legend, Ian Rush

A former Liverpool star, Ian Rush has reiterated that Mohamed Salah ought to be acknowledged in Europe over his excellent efficiency to this point.

Ian Rush says he’ll bow right down to Mohamed Salah ought to the Egyptian break his Liverpool objectives report for a single season within the Champions League last.

Salah enters Saturday’s showdown towards Real Madrid with 44 objectives this season, three wanting Rush’s report from the 1983-84 marketing campaign when Liverpool received the European Cup, First Division and League Cup treble.

It may appear a tall order for Salah to set a brand new mark, however Rush, now a membership ambassador at his beloved Liverpool, has made a promise to him forward of the Kiev last.

“If he beats my record I would actually bow down to him,” Rush advised Press Association Sport.

“To rating 4 objectives in a last can be an unbelievable achievement.

“Fernando Torres and Luis Suarez have been wonderful of their first seasons at Liverpool.

“But I’ve to say Salah’s been even higher than them, not solely his objectives and assists however his all-round recreation.

“What I like about him is that he’s such a humble man, if somebody’s in a greater place he passes the ball.”

Salah turned the most costly participant in Liverpool historical past final summer time when he joined from Roma in an preliminary £37million deal, though January signing Virgil van Dijk has since taken the report.

But the 25-year-old has proven that he’s value each penny and extra, with 11 of his objectives coming within the membership’s march to the Champions League last.

And Rush has echoed those that imagine Salah ought to be topped world participant of the 12 months if Liverpool grow to be European champions.

“The two best players in the world over a long time, without doubt, are Cristiano Ronaldo and Lionel Messi,” Rush stated.

“But over the past season Salah has been the perfect participant.

“He performed an enormous position in serving to Egypt to the World Cup and what he’s achieved at Liverpool has been wonderful.

“I don’t wish to take something away from Ronaldo or Messi, however he’s performed it within the hardest league on the planet.

“If Liverpool win the Champions League he deserves the perfect participant award, 100 per cent.”

Rush will likely be in Kiev as Liverpool search to win European soccer’s largest prize for the sixth time.

And Rush, Liverpool’s report scorer with 346 objectives, believes it will likely be a excessive scoring affair.

“It is an end to the season that probably most did not expect,” he stated.

“But why can’t we win it now that we’re within the last?

“Madrid are usually not the pressure they was once, though, saying that, when they should up their recreation they do.

“There’s obtained to be objectives in it with two such attacking groups, and hopefully these Liverpool gamers can grow to be legends.”