22 June 2017. The day when Mohamed Salah agreed to put pen on paper for Liverpool Football Club. Time has since flown by, and the buzzing football fraternity is now used to him scoring goals for fun. After winning the Championship with Basel, the left-footed magician was snapped up by Chelsea. He did score a few goals for the Blues but never broke through a winger's spot reserved by the likes of Eden Hazard, Oscar, Andre Schurrle and Willian. As per the club's
Real Madrid forward Gareth Bale believes that he would have been a more deserving winner of this year's FIFA's Puskas goal of the year award than actual claimant Mo Salah. Bale believes his overhead kick in the 2018 Champions League final should have secured the award, rather than the Egyptian’s strike against Everton in the December 2017 Merseyside derby. On winning the FourFourTwo magazine's goal of the year award, Bale said that Salah's victory had "diminished" the status of the Puskas award. "Yeah,