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.Salah was not given many opportunities at Chelsea1
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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