Mohamed Salah: Liverpool Premier League title win is my dream

Liverpool forward Mohamed Salah says he dreams of winning the Premier League and wants to do "something special" in this season's Champions League.

The Anfield club can go second in the league by beating West Ham on Saturday and lead Porto 5-0 after the first leg of their Champions League last-16 tie.

Egypt international Salah has scored 22 goals in 26 league games sincesigning from Roma for £34m last June.

"I came to here to win titles," the 25-year-old told Football Focus.

Ex-Chelsea player Salah made three substitute appearances totalling 30 minutes when the Blues won the league in 2014-15, ending the season on loan in Italy at Fiorentina.

He spent the following season on loan at Roma before joining the Serie A side for £12m in August 2016.

Salah has made a huge impact on his return to the Premier League and hopes his efforts can propel Liverpool to a first trophy since 2012.

"I can tell the fans we work 100% to try and win something for the club," he said.

"It's a long time since the club won the league. It's my dream to win the Premier League - but I want to win it with this club."

'Much more to come from me'
As well as scoring 22 times, Salah has also provided seven assists in an outstanding start to his Liverpool career - but he reserves praise for his Anfield team-mates.

"It's easy to play with this kind of quality," he said. "If you look at me now and five years ago, everything has changed both mentally and physically.

"I'm trying to improve myself every day. I always like to put myself under pressure to improve more.

"I give all my life to football, I only think about football. This is what is on my mind all the time."

Salah has come a long way since making daily nine-hour round trips from his home village of Nagrig to train and play for Arab Contractors (El Mokawloon) in Cairo at the age of 14.

He travelled by bus - sometimes changing five times - and those sacrifices he made as a teenager to follow his dream of reaching the top have paid off.

This summer, Salah will feel the weight of a nation on his shoulders when Egypt take on hosts Russia, Uruguay and Saudi Arabia at the World Cup. It is a challenge he is relishing.

"I gave a lot for football because I wanted to be as professional as possible. I was travelling nine hours a day," said Salah, the 2017 BBC African Footballer of the Year.

"I want all Egyptian people to follow my way to improve themselves. We are a huge country. We have many children. I want everyone to dream and feel they can do something."

 

Unlucky Mo

 

Next year fella, next year.

 

You never know, maybe our owners will sell the club to an oil rich nation and buy the title like City.

 

Mohamed Salah is making name for himself at Liverpool, Real Madrid are sniffing I bet city would have a look in the summer too. These money bag clubs should leave us alone with our Salah.

 

It's not just because their owners' nation is oil rich, it's because they are also human rights poor

 

Salah is currently worth more than what fsg paid for the club.

 

Everton's proposed loan from the council is worth twice what Moshiri paid for the club.

 

indeed

quids in all round.

you only need one gem to make a killing. being an agent or club owner in the short term should set anyone up for life.

sunderland going free... just borrow cash, buy players on the parachute payment and get them in prem then way hey... cash cow.

the guy who ran them into the ground wants shooting.
on balance i'd rather have been paul pogba's agent though.... what an easy way to make a killing.

 

18 pts is not too much especially if Goons win the cup tomorrow and if you can manage like 9 clean sheets in 11 league games.

For the sake of league I hope this.

 

what you been smoking ?

oh & can i have some

 

Something to keep things interesting in the league.

Can u keep 9 CS in relatively easy fixtures ?

Possible but not probable.
Same goes for City losing.

 

why do you think we need clean sheets when we average nearly 3 goals a game v bottom half

 

Clean sheets are for cowards

 

negativity.

 

nah.. implied 9 wins. If you guys keep cleansheets you will win.

Winning isn't difficult for you - but keeping cleansheets is. So if you can do the difficult stuff with little bit of help from everyone - you may (can..) catch city.

I sincerely hope you do. I still don't believe all this Pep romance.
Judas & Tony hand delivered the title already to Pep.

 

i reckon 7 more wins.

utd chelsea and everton all away. tough.

a lot depending on spurs today. we need to match their result v palace. they win then we need to.

hopefully we can win the other 6 but it requires top efforts.

 

Draws with Chelsea and United would be ok as well. Stops them from pulling away from us.

 

as long as no 3 point swing to chelsea imo. if we can be facing a safe brighton last day at home ahead i will be delighted.

if we can be safe ourselves by last day great but right now someone has to crack.

 

This madness of wanting Man Utd to win points again. Chelsea are furthest behind, and they are the least consistent. Chelsea winning is a great result. It also has the bonus that Man Utd fans being forced to watch boring losing football at OT will further damage Jose's position and lead him to make more stubborn decisions like playing Pobga as a DM or Lukaku as a striker.