On the evening of May 5, Liverpool striker Salah received the Player of the Year award from the Football Writers' Association (FWA) in London, England. Salah also said that Liverpool are the best team in Europe and have to beat Real Madrid in the Champions League final.
The Football Journalists Association of England has around 400 journalists who vote for the Player of the Year. Salah beat rivals De Bruyne and Rice with 48 percent of the vote to be named male player of the year. Chelsea Women's Sam Cole was named Women's Player of the Year. This is the second time Salah has won the award, having also won the award in the 2017-18 season.
Liverpool legend Ian Rush presented the award to Salah at the ceremony. Salah said: "It feels great and winning this award means a lot. First of all I want to thank everyone who voted for me, the reporter is of course the football family. An important part. Hopefully we can win more trophies this season." Salah has scored 30 goals and provided 15 assists in all competitions this season.
Liverpool won the English League Cup this season, reached the Champions League final and the FA Cup final, and there is still hope of winning the Premier League. Salah thought: "Is a quadruple realistic? I think it is. But not everything is in our own hands, we have to win games in the Premier League first and see if City drop points. They have a strong team. Great team and great coach, and I'm sure they want to keep winning too. But it's possible to fight for the title."
Salah continued: "First we have to finish our games in the Premier League and then we'll see. We have four games left, which means City have four games to drop. We have to focus on the next game against Heat. The Spurs game, from there. We've been together for 5 years and we know what it takes to win. In the last game we were 2-0 down at the road, but we managed to come back and that's a big factor for our mentality and the next game Very important. We have the mentality that we can win any trophy."
Liverpool's opponent in this season's Champions League final is Real Madrid. The two teams met in the Champions League final in 2018, when Real Madrid won 3-1 and Salah left the field with an injury. Salah said: "Real Madrid have more experience than us in the history of the Champions League, but we have very good players and coaches. I know it will be a difficult game, Real Madrid have beat a lot of good teams, but we only Need to focus on the game. We are the best team in Europe, maybe the best team in the world, in my opinion, and all we want is to win."
Salah admitted that it will be his own revenge battle against Real Madrid, "Yes. We lost the Champions League final in 2018. It was a sad day for all of us. Now is the time for revenge. Revenge is ours. Thought, we want to win this time, we want to win more than our opponents. Last time we lost, I was injured, I believe we can do it this time. Having a final loss and injury is the worst of my career for me Moments, but we had a chance to correct our mistakes and we won the Champions League in the second year of that final (2019)."
After Liverpool advanced to the Champions League final, Salah has expressed his desire to meet Real Madrid and get revenge. After Real Madrid defeated Manchester City to advance to the final, Salah posted on social media: "We have an account to calculate." Now that Salah once again mentioned revenge for Real Madrid, it can be seen that this has become his obsession.
And Liverpool star Hamann told cabportal: "I saw Salah's remarks and I have to say I don't like it. What happened in the Champions League final was unfortunate, I'm not sure if Ramos deliberately hurt Salah. , but obviously Salah was unfortunately dragged to the ground and left with an injury. But as we know, it was a goalkeeper error that gave Real Madrid the advantage. I prefer the players to be quiet and they can talk about it after the game But I also understand what he thinks, he said before the game that he wanted to play against Real Madrid, and now he has, so I hope he can keep a cool head."