You can say the exact same of Salah whereby without his contribution there wouldn't be some Liverpool goals. Difference is he does have a lot more goal contributions in both the PL and CL than Hazard.
Not for me. I would pick any of that lot ahead of Salah. They were simply more impressive at their best. Remember, I am talking in terms of how good they were at peak rather than simply overall career-wise.
How? Salah averages 30+ goal contributions a season in the PL and his best one trumps most of them.
Salah's peak is basically his entire Liverpool career, so that's what we're referring to here. Some of the players you mentioned are close, I'm not saying Salah is miles clear of them, but his legacy is certified for me now. In my list of of all time PL players, I'd now only have Henry ahead of him.
Salah at his best put up Cristiano/Henry level production. How was someone like Torres more impressive at his best as good as he was?
Ronaldo in his PL days only had 1 season at the level of Salah in terms of production.
Pretty much this. Hazard's dribbling was just so pleasing to the eye and on his day he was unplayable but statistically he can't match Salah's output.
And had Schurle squared it for someone else to tap it in would that lessen Fabregas involvement in the move?
He didn't though.
I somehow skipped the very obvious “Liverpool” because it’s the start of a new line on my phone, and thought you’d lost your mind
Point is you can have a heavy gamechanging impact on a goal despite it not going down on the stats.
Yeah, and Salah does that too. Plus he has far more goal contributions than Hazard, in both the PL and CL.
In terms of stats and output Hazard couldn't match Salah.
What makes Henry vs Salah that difficult?
Salah made it at the highest level much older than Hazard though. I think he still has more "prime years", but not as much as it seems at first glance.
same thing that makes Suarez vs Salah difficult? Same caliber of players
Don't think that's true at all, Salah has been one of the best players in the league for the past 4 years sure. Henry was a top 10 player in the world from at least 2001 till 2006, a whole different level.
Tbf, Salah's been one of the 10 best players in the world consistently since his debut Liverpool season.
Messi, Ronaldo, Neymar, Mbappe, Benzema, Lewandowski, Kane were better than him, sometimes all of them at the same time arguably. Not to mention midfielders/defenders/goalkeepers. Not here to slag off Salah or anything, I think he might come after Henry when it comes to PL Forwards, even potentially ahead of Ronaldo if Liverpool win the league this year.
I don't think Ronaldo's been clearly better than Salah since like 2018(and I think it's close that season too). 2021 onwards, I think Salah's been better than him.
There were entire games where I would just watch Hazard for most of it.
Agree with most that you're saying, small margins. Maybe not Benzema since Ronaldo left Real Madrid, think that he was pretty much every bit as good as Salah from that period.
Salah has been a top 10 player in the world for the past 6 years as well. You are seriously underrating him here
If you take an aggregate of the past 7yrs Salah will definitely be top 10 possibly top 5. I don't see how Kane would have been better than Salah. Benzema has many mediocre 3-4/10 seasons even terrible ones but had a couple of great 9/10 seasons. Salah has been consistently 7-8/10 since 2017
They're excellent statistically, but his overall play in his poor seasons was not good. He'd pop up with a goal or an assist but he did genuinely have poor seasons.
