SquishyMcSquish
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No they don't. They look functional and have the odd good game/moment but none of them look consistently exceptional for Liverpool.I'm not arguing that Salah is bad player, he is a very good player. But while playing for the Scousers, even the likes of Origi, Ox, Gini, Shaqiri look exceptional.
For modern football, a great first touch(good technical skills) and quickness of thought is so invaluable for a player. That is why forwards like Lukaku will go out of the game soon. But for Liverpool's style of play, even more than their first touch, the most important factors are their movement as a collective and their tempo.
So many times, players like Mane, Origi, Wijnaldum etc. even Salah have taken a heavy touch, but instead of losing their threat, the gegen press they do as a collective, helps them retrieve the ball and turn back an unfavourable situation into a favorable one.
Salah/Mane/Firmino are top quality, world class footballers. They're helped by playing in an excellent system (like all players, city attackers benefit from the same thing) but they're still brilliant footballers. The ones you mentioned are in the not bad/good footballers category and they look exactly like that for Liverpool, nothing more or less.