Curtis Jones has insisted he’d always pick Mohamed Salah in his team, after previously admitting he thought Eden Hazard was a better player than his Liverpool team-mate. The Reds midfielder revealed that the former Chelsea stars was one of his idols when speaking to Rio Ferdinand on TNT Sport’s ‘Between the Lines’.

The 23-year-old revealed he had the same debate with Salah regarding which of the pair was better - with the Egyptian a previous team-mate of Hazard at Stamford Bridge.

And as a boyhood Reds supporter, Jones was aware that such an admission might not be the most popular with Liverpool fans as he explained his reasoning.

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"I know this might go a little bit left with our fans because the comparison is always there, but Hazard. Hazard is the one,” he said. "I know he's compared with Mo all the time and I've been into it with Mo.

"From a player who I saw when I was a kid when I loved the game and I was studying the game and wanted to be a player, I feel like Hazard was the one. Every game I'd watch him and I would just (say), ‘wow, that's football’."

"I think it's goals and assists, that's the way the game's gone, that's the way it's shaped out. That's why Hazard now is - I wouldn't say disrespected - but he doesn't come into certain talks that he should.

"It’s a talk I've had with Mo and all the lads. As a footballer, is he better than Mo? In my opinion, yes.

"But who would you rather have in the team? You're going to say Mo, because he gets you the goals and the assists."

Inevitably, onlookers perhaps focussed on Jones’ choice of who he considers the better player, rather than his admission that Salah is still the one he would pick in his team if forced to choose between the two.

But following the release of his appearance on ‘Between the Lines’, he has issued the perfect response on social media.

Posting a selfie with Salah, taken by the Egyptian, Jones wrote: “The one I’d rather have in my team,” with a smiling emoji as he reiterated his previous claim after seeing it go under the radar.