Liverpool news: Ashley Cole reveals he did NOT expect former Chelsea team-mate Mohamed Salah to become world class

Liverpool news: Ashley Cole reveals he did NOT expect former Chelsea team-mate Mohamed Salah to become world class
Ashley Cole admits he did not expect Mohamed Salah to blossom into a world class footballer after playing alongside the Egyptian at Chelsea.Salah, the Liverpool star, came back to haunt his former side with a thunderbolt against them during the Reds’ 2-0 victory at Anfield on Sunday.1

Salah was not given many opportunities at Chelsea

The strike puts him alongside Sergio Aguero on 19 for the season – while last term Salah broke the record for most goals in a single Premier League campaign.But the Egypt international’s emergence as one of world football’s most prolific forwards has taken former team-mate Cole by surprise. The pair played together at Stamford Bridge in 2014, where Salah struggled to nail down a first-team place and eventually left for Roma in 2016 after being loaned out to Fiorentina the year prior.When asked if he saw the 26-year-old becoming the player he is today, Cole said: “To be honest, no.“I saw in training the ability that he had but he seems to have become more ruthless.

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“I dont mean selfish in a bad way but he wants to score goals. Thats his job. He needs to score goals.“Him, [Roberto] Firmino and [Sadio] Mane all play well together but I think hes become a little bit more ‘its about me now, its my time’. Hes had enough of the other players being in the shadow and he wants to be the main man.”

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