KLOPP WANTS MORE MAGICAL MO

MO SALAH will be hoping to keep up with tradition today.

Ever since he joined Liverpool in the summer of 2017, the Egyptian star has managed to score on the opening weekend of the season.

Now he will look to add Fulham to the list that includes Watford, West Ham, Norwich (twice) and Leeds.

Liverpool manager Jurgen Klopp believes the goal-hungry forward will be champing at the bit to get going after a summer of rest and a new contract signed.

Clear

“I don’t know 100 per cent but he is in really good shape and of course he is happy to be here,” said Klopp.

“As clear as it was for him and in the end I said it for me, we would get the deal over the line but it is still an open thing, and everyone talks about it and stuff like this. We are humans but I didn’t see it distracting him a lot to be honest.

“Mo had one of the most intense seasons ever, with the Africa Cup of Nations and all of our games.

“Everyone talks about us playing 63 games but we had some players who also played a tournament in between as well and that was absolutely ridiculous.

“After a few weeks of holiday, Mo is always full of power and energy and he came back in a good shape.

“He has looked really sharp in the whole pre-season to be honest. Long may continue, that would be really cool.” it

Salah shared the golden boot last season with Spurs’ Heung-Min Son on 23 goals, despite scoring just seven in the Premier League after his return from the Africa Cup of Nations.

He suffered somewhat of a hangover from his country’s final defeat by Senegal in February. Sadio Mane was the hero then but he has now departed for Bayern Munich.

Race

Yet there will be more competition in the race to be top scorer with the arrival of Erling Haaland at Manchester City and Salah’s new Liverpool team-mate Darwin Nunez.

“People are motivated by different things, I think Mo’s biggest motivation is to win football games and to score, that is definitely the case,” said Klopp.

“I don’t think he thinks too often about other players or how often they score. “He might do it in May when he has hopefully 34 or 35 and the other two have 32.

“Before then can’t see that.”

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