Liverpool icon Graeme Souness has voiced concern over talisman Mohamed Salah’s struggles amid the club’s shaky start to the new season.
Salah, who penned a long-awaited extension on Merseyside in the summer, has failed to impress early on in this new campaign with Jurgen Klopp’s Liverpool yet to hit the ground running with their showings.
Just one win from their first six games in the Premier League games and a thumping 4-1 defeat to Napoli in the Champions League opener has ensured question marks over Klopp and his star players including the Egyptian winger Salah.
The former Roma man has just two goals in his first seven competitive outings which is the worst start to a season since he made the move to Anfield in the summer of 2017 and has Liverpool legend Souness worried over the player’s form.
In his column for The Daily Mail, Souness has admitted that following his signing of a new long-term deal with Liverpool, Salah has looked a shadow of his former self which was evident in the recent loss to Napoli.
“There are all sorts of reasons for this being offered by the people with the data and the big theories. They will tell you about the Liverpool high line. About Mo Salah not looking the same player he was. About Trent Alexander-Arnold appearing to jog back when two of Napoli’s goals went in, during that 4-1 defeat on Wednesday night. But Liverpool just don’t seem to have the same energy.
“I’ve certainly not been seeing the same Salah. He has signed the big contract he wanted and I really hope we are not seeing him getting semi into his armchair because of that.”
