Gary Neville was shocked when Jamie Carragher snubbed Mohamed Salah in favor of the “next Lionel Messi” in his 2024 squad.
The two experts were picking their combined squads for the EA FC 25 Team of the Year and Neville immediately noticed that his colleague had not included Salah, His antics drew criticism from Carragher as he neared the end of his Liverpool contract.
Neville asked Carragher: “You are not pursuing [Mohamed] Salah? ! “
Jamie Carragher stunned Gary Neville by replying “no”.
Neville responded in shock: “Oh my god! Is it because he basically said he was leaving again this week?”
Carragher replied: “No, I do it for [Lamine] Yamal. He was 16, he won the European Cup, he was the best player there. “
Gary Neville said: “He’s doing well, Yamal.”
Carragher went on to explain further why he chose Yamal over Salah.
He added: “For me he will be the next [Lionel] Messi, [Cristiano] Ronaldo-esque, I just think that when we choose these things, I know it’s not usually a calendar year, but more often than not, if you choose the Ballon d’Or, it’s almost about the championship. “
“Normally, that plays a big role, I just wanted to see him in that game, watching Spain, when you mentioned Rodri’s absence earlier, he’s been out a little bit for Barcelona in the last few weeks and months, They have fully recovered. “Barcelona fell off a cliff. “
“He was so good that I went to Yamal.”
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Neville believes that although Yamal is “shocking”, his statistics cannot be compared with Salah.
Neville said: “He was fantastic, I remember the games in the summer and he was fantastic, but I think he only scored three or four goals for Barcelona and he didn’t score a great goal for Barcelona all last season. ball.
“I just miss Salah, you can’t deny Salah! I love that kid, but Salah is like a machine.”
Jamie Carragher believes that Salah’s form declined significantly in the second half of last season at Liverpool, while also mentioning that Egypt was eliminated by the Democratic Republic of Congo in the last 16 of the African Cup of Nations.
He said: “If you think about the calendar year you’re thinking about the Africa Cup of Nations, aren’t you? It didn’t go particularly well for Mo and the second half of last season wasn’t great either. “It’s particularly special for Mo. smoothly.
“The first half of the season, he was probably the best player in the world for that half of the season and I just thought, what did that kid do in the Championship and Mo Salah didn’t perform in the first half of the calendar year so that’s The reason why I went to Yamal.”
