Liverpool boss Klopp labels Salah 'best in the world'
Liverpool star Mohamed Salah should demand to be the highest-paid player in the Premier League or ask for a move away from Anfield, according to former Aston Villa captain Gabriel Agbonlahor. Salah has been in scintillating form for Liverpool so far this season. The Egyptian has scored in his last nine appearances for the Reds in all competitions.
Liverpool boss Jurgen Klopp and former defender Jamie Carragher are among those to have labelled Salah as the best player in the world on current form.
And Agbonlahor believes the 29-year-old deserves to see that praise reciprocated in his pay packet.
Liverpool news: Mohamed Salah has been told to demand a mega new contract (Image: GETTY)
Agbonlahor has warned Liverpool sporting director Michael Edwards that Salah will ask to leave if he does not get the wage increase he deserves.
"If I'm Mo Salah now, I want £1 more than the highest-paid player in the Premier League," Agbonlahor said on talkSPORT.
"If you don't give it to me I'll go somewhere that will give me it because I'm that important to Liverpool at the moment that without me in the team, I don't think Liverpool have got a chance of winning the league, a chance of winning the Champions League.
"I think Mo Salah's that good, that important to Liverpool, 'pay me what I deserve to be paid'. I just see Mo Salah as that important.
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Klopp said: "I have no idea how exactly you win the Ballon d'Or: if it's about being in the Champions League final, scoring the most goals, then it could be slightly difficult but if it's about performances over the last two years then he has a chance from my point of view.
"Does he get the recognition finally? Internally he always got it, externally I don't know.
"After two goals he scored now people think all of a sudden because of that he could be the best player in the world is a bit strange.
"He scored goals like this and performed for years at an incredibly high level."