Liverpool great Jamie Carragher believes that there is only one player in the conversation alongside two Anfield icons as the club’s best ever player.
Carragher spent 17 seasons in the senior team at Anfield, making 737 appearances in a career littered with honours. A true one club player, Carragher shared the pitch with some of the Reds’ best players, including Steven Gerrard and Luis Suarez.
Liverpool fans have long debated the player that should be hailed as their greatest, with Kenny Dalglish and Steven Gerrard most frequently touted and both players credentials speak for themselves.
“King Kenny” joined Liverpool in 1977 and guided Liverpool to one of their most dominant periods as both a player and manager, winning six league titles and three European Cups alongside a string of other domestic honours.
Gerrard spent 26 years at Anfield, rising up through the youth academy on his way to become the club’s talismanic captain. With 710 appearances, the former England international sits third on Liverpool’s all-time list and lead the club to one of their most iconic victories in the Champions League final in 2005.
Speaking as a pundit on Sky Sports before Liverpool clinched the Premier League title last season, Carragher now considers Mohamed Salah part of that debate.
I said that he’s [Salah] in the top five players to ever play for Liverpool.
I think if he takes Liverpool to a league title and he ends up with the PFA Premier League Player of the Season, which, if he wins it, will be the third time he’s won it and that’s never happened before.
If he does that, he’s not in the top five, he’s fighting with Kenny Dalglish and Steven Gerrard. It’s a fight to see who is Liverpool’s greatest ever player.
If he can add that to what he’s already done at Liverpool, he leaves Ian Rush and Graeme Souness behind and joins those two.
Liverpool went on to lift the Premier League and Salah, as expected, won the PFA Player of the Season for a record-breaking third time, surpassing the likes of Cristiano Ronaldo and Thierry Henry.
The “Egyptian King” joined the Reds in 2017 and hit the ground running, scoring 32 league goals in his debut season on his way to the first of four Golden Boots. In eight seasons at Anfield, Salah has scored 245 goals in 401 appearances, placing him third on the club’s all-time scorers list behind Ian Rush and Roger Hunt, firmly placing him amongst the Reds’ elite.
After signing a two-year contract extension in April, there is no doubt that Salah will only add to his goal scoring tally and will be looking add more honours to only further his Anfield legacy.
