Liverpool’s Mo Salah is NOT world class… but I can name five players who are, says Troy Deeney

I HAVE received a spot of vigor this week for immoderate comments connected Mohamed Salah — truthful fto maine speech you done it.

I claimed Salah is NOT satellite class.

The Liverpool subordinate is simply a superb winger, his goalscoring numbers are unthinkable and helium has achieved immoderate genuinely astonishing things astatine the club.

But satellite class? No.

Let maine marque this wide — this is not a idiosyncratic onslaught connected Salah. I deliberation helium is simply a apical subordinate and a large guy.

I played against him a batch successful my vocation and tin admit conscionable however bully helium is.

But trying to beryllium everyone’s friend? That’s not my bag. I volition accidental it however it is.

In general, this is astir the word "world class" arsenic a full — what does it really mean and erstwhile tin we usage it?

Firstly, it is simply a precise lucid mode to picture a footballer.

It's not similar astatine The Masters erstwhile you get your Green Jacket and you are a champion of Augusta forever, careless of however atrocious you play afterwards.

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It is thing arsenic a subordinate that takes ages to gain and astir apt fractional a play to lose, and past the combat to get it backmost begins again.

Some players — large players — person struggled to gain that rubric astatine each during their careers.

Gary Neville is 1 of the astir decorated full-backs of each time, but we each considered Roberto Carlos oregon Cafu to beryllium a level above.

Yet if I had Neville’s vocation down me, would I attraction if idiosyncratic said I wasn’t satellite class? Of people not.

No subordinate is harmless from dropping retired of this subjective, opinionated category, but determination is ever a mode back.

For instance, idiosyncratic similar Kylian Mbappe I would reason is besides presently NOT satellite class.

An unthinkable player, won plenty, got his large determination to Real Madrid this summer, but his signifier has not been astatine the level of erstwhile seasons.

To gain and support that satellite people tag, I judge you request to beryllium capable to transcend your full team, transcend the crippled — not simply by having the astir garment sales, but being capable to consistently assistance a nine to glory by yourself.

Can Mbappe astatine 25 get backmost to being satellite class? Definitely. But for now, helium has immoderate enactment to do.

As for Salah, you tin look astatine his stats — 165 Prem goals successful 274 games — and accidental this and that but ultimately, it is astir what helium brings to the squad and the interaction helium has play aft season, not conscionable successful definite games and moments.

I was connected the extremity of loads of drubbings astatine Watford erstwhile Salah was astonishing for Liverpool.

But erstwhile we prepared to look them, it was not conscionable a lawsuit of "stop Salah and you win".

It was a batch harder erstwhile they besides had Sadio Mane successful the broadside who, successful my opinion, was much effectual implicit that play than Salah.

And if we were basing this purely disconnected numbers and goals, past Bruno Fernandes would beryllium 1 of the champion midfielders successful the world, but helium is not.

You spot wherever I americium coming from?

I tin retrieve Graeme Souness erstwhile telling maine his mentation connected whether you were satellite class, and it was based connected whether you could locomotion into immoderate starting XI successful satellite football.

With that successful mind, present are the 5 players presently successful satellite football who, for me, tin beryllium deemed satellite people — who could stroll into immoderate squad connected the satellite and start:

• Alisson (Liverpool)
• Virgil van Dijk (Liverpool)
• Rodri (Manchester City)
• Erling Haaland (Manchester City)
• Vinicius Jr (Real Madrid)

Saying each this, it is conscionable my opinion. Someone tin crook astir and archer maine I americium incorrect and that is perfectly fine.

And if Salah is worrying astir what  I think, past helium is decidedly not  satellite class.