A look at the stunning numbers for the Egyptian this season.
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00:00Looking at Liverpool and Mohamed Salah specifically,
00:03obviously we mentioned before the season started how there was possibilities of him
00:08maybe showing signs of his age and slowing down.
00:11If anything, he's actually sped up.
00:12This season has been absolutely remarkable.
00:16What do you think the key changes have been from adjusting from Klopp to Schlott?
00:20You know, we've mentioned Schlott's a bit more measured, less gung-ho,
00:24and maybe that has clearly played into Salah's favour.
00:27Do you think, as well, there's a better player in world football at the moment?
00:31I mean, he's just absolutely unbelievable and, you know,
00:34there's a prospect of going on to be the best individual season in Premier League history as well.
00:39Yeah, definitely.
00:41It's interesting because obviously, you know, Salah's 32, now going on 33,
00:45and as you said, Jürgen Klopp, his style of football was fairly taxing on players,
00:52and Arnaud Schlott is a little bit different.
00:58Don't get me wrong, Liverpool cover a lot of ground, they make a lot of sprints,
01:01but it's not constant back and forth like a basketball game,
01:06and I think that's definitely helped Mohamed Salah.
01:11Arnaud Schlott's spoken about trying to get him in more one-on-one situations,
01:14putting him a little bit wider and seeing if he can bring him in,
01:17and then if he's a little bit wider and the ball's, say, on the opposite side of the pitch,
01:21maybe defenders just go ball-watching a little bit,
01:25and he can sneak in around the back post and finish them ways,
01:29or get him on the ball, as you say, where he can isolate defenders.
01:33As you say, is he the best player in the world at the moment?
01:35You couldn't argue against it, could you?
01:38With his numbers, absolutely incredible goals and assists.
01:43Kylian Mbappe scored 27 in all competitions for Real Madrid this season,
01:47but he's only got four assists, and Vinicius Junior's got 17 and 10.
01:52Mohamed Salah's ahead of both of those by a long way,
01:57and that's why there's so much talk about him being in the reckoning for the Ballon d'Or,
02:03and Arnaud Schlott said that Liverpool will probably have to go on and win the Premier League,
02:07for him to really have a good shout of that.
02:11But, you know, who else, realistically, are you looking at around the leagues?
02:17Is there anyone, you say, Real Madrid are always going to be up there, aren't they?
02:22So you look at Mbappe or Vinicius, but you couldn't argue against Mohamed Salah,
02:28the numbers that he's putting up, they are incredible,
02:31and it was interesting what Arnaud Schlott said recently at his press conference,
02:35that maybe his numbers will make it a little bit more difficult in terms of the contract now,
02:40because he's not slowing down, he's definitely got, you know,
02:43you only have to look at the shape he's in,
02:44he's definitely got a couple more years operating at the very top level,
02:49and it costs Liverpool a lot of money to replace him.
02:53Is there an out-and-out replacement out there right now?
02:56You'd probably say, no, there isn't.
02:59The only ones that there would be would probably be coming from either Real Madrid or Barcelona.