Resist the machine: Mo Salah should surely fight the urge to be a galáctico | Barney Ronay


In the past 10 years, any Premier League attacker who can maintain an A-list run has become a target of La Liga super clubs – but it would be a terrible idea for the Liverpool striker

Is English football in danger of losing Mohamed Salah to Real Madrid or Barcelona because he is now simply too good to stay?

Mido certainly thinks so. Yes: that Mido. The same Mido who once issued a formal apology to Middlesbrough fans for being too fat. The same Mido who is, it turns out, a very good pundit these days and who raised a doubly interesting point this week about Salah’s trajectory in this, his second season of outright Premier League supremacy.

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