Liverpool fans always enjoy seeing Gary Neville make poor predictions, and one claim regarding Mohamed Salah in 2019 has come back to haunt him.
Salah Liverpool’s hero yet again
The Reds were never wholly convincing in Sunday’s 1-0 win away to Burnley, but ultimately, their dominance of possession and chance creation means they were worthy of all three points.
The game was decided by a penalty from Salah in the dying seconds, with the Liverpool legend nervelessly burying a spot-kick past Martin Dubravka to retain his side’s 100% winning start to the Premier League season.
In truth, the 33-year-old was actually a long way from his best at Turf Moor, in what has been a slow start to the campaign for him, but when the Reds really need him to produce something, he is so often the man to get them out of trouble.
Incredibly, Salah now has 100 more goal contributions than any other player in the Premier League since he joined Liverpool in the summer of 2017, summing up what a remarkable signing he has been.
Neville’s awful Salah claim from 2019
Speaking back in 2019, with his quotes relayed by The Mirror, Neville claimed that Salah would leave Liverpool the following summer, saying that an exit was inevitable.
“Salah will leave, he will, I can absolutely guarantee it. I can see it, you can feel it, you can smell it, you know it.”
That same summer, Neville also predicted that Manchester United would win a league title again before Liverpool, less than a year before the Reds were crowned champions under Jürgen Klopp.
“Liverpool, City, Tottenham – all these clubs have had poor recruitment policies over the last 25-30 years at times, so United are going through one at the moment. Eventually they’ll stumble across the right recruitment system, the right recruitment people. We’ll get a great manager – hopefully that’s Ole – and they’ll start to win again.
“That’s going to happen, I can guarantee you as clear as day Manchester United will win again, they’ll win again no problem. They’ll win a league – probably win the league before Liverpool in my opinion, I’m not being disrespectful.”
These are the kind of bold predictions that Neville has become famed for over the years, with the United legend failing to see just how far away his club are from the teams.
As for his Salah comments, six years have now passed since them and the Egyptian King is still a Liverpool player, cementing his place as not only one of the Reds’ best-ever players, but also one of the greatest in Premier League history.
