Kobi
I Know Who You Are
That's the thing, maybe we are looking for the guy who's about to blow up and have to take a few risks. No one was wishlisting Salah and Mane before they went to Liverpool.
Salah is still weird for me, remember watching him at Roma and thinking it's a very average player who relies on pace and space to run into. Never thought he would be a 30-40 goal a season player
Funnily enough I remember watching Brazil v Egypt at London 2012, Neymar was playing for Brazil and Egypt were 3-0 down at half time.
They brought on Salah in the second half and his pace and dribbling was astonishing, completely turned the game. Egypt suddenly went from looking like lockdown Arsenal in the first half to 2003-04 Arsenal in the second, like somebody had just turned the speed of the game up on FIFA.
Salah scored one, they missed a load of chances and I think Brazil held on to win 3-2, I can still remember 1) thinking how the hell doesn‘t this bloke start? and 2) the commentator announcing he had agreed a deal to join Basel ‘next season’ for £1m.
I also remember really liking the centre back, Hegazi, who later turned up at West Brom, largely because he was like a David Luiz clone, big hair, recklessly aggressive and very good on the ball.
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