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🚨 Thierry Henry on Mohamed Salah’s incredible form at Trabzonspor and whether Liverpool allowed him to leave too early: “I’m watching Salah score these goals in Turkey, and people keep saying, ‘Well, it’s Turkey.’ Okay. I understand that. But look at how he’s scoring. Look at the movement, the decisions, the final touch. Those things haven’t suddenly appeared because he’s changed leagues. He’s got 10 goal contributions in 6 games. Against KuPS, a goal and an assist, and that finish was ridiculous. The funny thing is, when he was at Liverpool, we spent years watching him do extraordinary things and then discussing the one thing he hadn’t done that afternoon. He’d score and somebody would say he should’ve passed. He’d assist and somebody would say he wasn’t involved enough. He made that level of production look normal. And that’s why I think Liverpool may have made a mistake. I’m not saying a player can stay forever. Nobody can. I know that better than most people. But I look at how things developed under Arne Slot, and I ask myself whether Liverpool were too quick to accept that Salah’s time at the club had come to an end. If Liverpool had handled the succession differently, brought in somebody like Andoni Iraola at the right time, a manager who could give the team fresh energy while still recognising what Salah brings, I genuinely believe Mohamed could’ve given them another two seasons. And look at what was sitting there for him. Salah left with 193 Premier League goals. Wayne Rooney had 208. Harry Kane had 213. Sixteen more and he’d have gone past Rooney. Twenty-one and he’d have gone past Kane. For Mohamed Salah, across two seasons? Come on. I played in the Premier League. I know how difficult it is to score there. But I also know that when you have a player who has been doing it consistently for years, you don’t suddenly decide he cannot do it anymore because he’s getting older. People say, ‘Thierry, he’s not the same player he was five years ago.’ Of course he’s not. Neither was I. You change. You learn to arrive in different positions. You understand when to run and when to wait. Sometimes you become a more intelligent player because you cannot do everything you did at 25 You don’t judge Salah by the date on his birth certificate. You judge him by what he can still do on a football pitch. And judging by what I’m watching at Trabzonspor, there’s still a lot he can do. I don’t blame him for going somewhere he feels wanted. He’s smiling, he’s scoring, and those supporters are enjoying every minute. But imagine the conversation at Liverpool in two years if he’s still producing numbers like these. They’ll be talking about the Premier League scoring records he might have chased, while he’s somewhere in Turkey collecting another match ball. And what makes it frustrating for me is that I don’t think Salah was finished with Liverpool. I think Liverpool decided his time was over before his football had given them a reason to believe it.”