From talent to legend.. Salah achieves what Ronaldo
and all Premier League stars failed to achieve
It has become common for Egyptian star Mohamed Salah, Liverpool star, to win awards recently, after he topped most polls and won most awards in English football over the past years.
Salah's winning of the 2024/2025 Player of
the Year award on Tuesday, presented by the English Professional Footballers' Association, may be the best evidence of his constant brilliance and continuity, which has become a model for everyone
who plays football in
- the English Premier League and around the world
- as Salah has maintained his level since joining Liverpool
- from Roma at the beginning of the 2017/2018 season until now.
Salah became
the player who won the award the most times, having won it three times
as he shared
- the lead with a large number of top scorers and big stars in the history of
- the competition, including Manchester United legend,
- Portuguese international Cristiano Ronaldo.
Salah now surpasses previous stars
who have won the award only twice, and he shared the credit
with them in recent years, but he has become the most crowned with it now.
The first time Salah won the award was in his inaugural season with Liverpool, after he achieved the title of top scorer in the English Premier League with 32 goals.
The second
time came in the 2021/2022 season
- as the season was not special for Liverpool
- who lost the league to Manchester City
- and lost in the Champions League final to Real Madrid
but Salah shone on
- the individual level and shared the top scorer position in
- the English Premier League with 23 goals with South Korean
- Son Heung-min, the former Tottenham Hotspur star.
When Salah won the award for the second time
he equaled the record of more than one player who had previously won the award twice, namely the Welshman Mark Hughes, who won it in the 1988/1989
and 1990/1991 seasons, the competition's all-time top scorer Alan Shearer in the 1994/1995 and 1996/1997 seasons, and the Frenchman Thierry Henry
Arsenal's all-time top scorer in
two consecutive seasons 2002/2003 and 2003/2004
The same applies to Cristiano Ronaldo, who won the award in the 2006/2007
and 2007/2007
seasons2008 and Welshman Gareth Bale in 2010/2011 and 2012/2013.
It was not only these people that
Salah sought to surpass in order to take the lead in the standings, but he also faced competition from a player of his generation in the English Premier League, as Belgian Kevin De Bruyne, the former Manchester City star
won the award twice in 2019/2020 and 2020/2021, noting that he moved at the beginning of the summer to Napoli in Italy after ten years with Manchester City.
Salah's huge stardom
and his constant desire to break records may not have fully expressed his first difficult experience in the world of English football, as he joined Chelsea in January 2014, but he did not succeed in proving himself with the team
and his shares declined
as a rising talent seeking to shine in Europe, but he searched for brilliance wherever he went, as he found the opportunity in Fiorentina on loan, then to Roma
which introduced him to the world in a better way His move to Liverpool
is the beginning of an inspiring story that is not over yet.