Gary Neville and Jamie Carragher were in agreement that Liverpool’s Mohamed Salah is one of the Premier League’s greatest-ever attackers, and is even rubbing shoulders with the likes of Cristiano Ronaldo and Lionel Messi.

The Egyptian seems to be breaking records on a weekly basis in what is quickly becoming his best-ever individual campaign at Anfield. Salah has registered 17 goals and 13 assists from 18 Premier League matches this season, and Neville and Carragher were in agreement that he is on course to be the player of the year.

“Unbelievable, what a performer. You are talking about the best of the best,” opined Neville during Sky Sports’ Monday Night Football. “Just the fact he plays every single week and it feels like he never misses a match. He is an 8/10 or 9/10 every match and is one of the best in the world and is one of the best the Premier League has ever had.

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“It looks like he’s getting better and better, and more efficient. He hasn’t maybe got that same sort of electric pace that he had three or four years ago but is in that stage of his career of complete and utter experience and comfort, and knows exactly where he wants to be.”

It was an opinion echoed by his fellow pundit. “I think we’re seeing an all-time season,” claimed Carragher. “There were so many stats flying about there yesterday on social media and I thought ‘what’s the best [numbers] a Messi or Ronaldo has had halfway through the season?’. We know their numbers for years were so great.”

Sky then produced a graphic to illustrate that only once had Ronaldo beaten Salah’s current numbers of 30 goal involvements at this stage of season (2014/15 when he accumulated 37). Lionel Messi had done it twice, his best being the 35 goal involvements at the halfway point of the 2010/11 campaign. They were the only players to better Salah’s number of 30 after 18 games, with the likes of Robert Lewandowski, Erling Haaland, Harry Kane and Kylian Mbappe further down the list.

“That is incredible when we see the consistency of Ronaldo or Messi over a 10-year period at Real Madrid and Barcelona, and the fact that Ronaldo has only once beaten those numbers that Mo Salah is getting now… I couldn’t believe that when he heard the stats. Messi has only beaten it twice,” said Carragher, who added that we could be witnessing one of the best individual performances over a season in Premier League history.

“I can only think of three or four times in the Premier League era, I think of Haaland a few years ago, I think of the season when [Thierry] Henry got 20 goals and 20 assists.

“I think of Luis Suarez when his numbers were just off the scale during that one season under Brendan Rodgers. I think of Shearer at Blackburn when it felt like he scored [every week]. We could be seeing an all-time season that we will never forget.”

“What Ronaldo and Messi did for 10,12 years, we were all blown away by one of the greatest things we’ve seen watching those two. Salah sits in third in that table behind them - an unbelievable level of performance. One of the best we have seen in the Premier League,” added Neville.

The conversation then turned to the ultimate individual accolade in world football: the Ballon d’Or.

“I think Mo Salah has always seen himself, maybe not as good as Messi and Ronaldo but in that stratosphere as one of the best players in the world and he feels he has unjustly not been given certain awards,” said Carragher.

“You talk about the Ballon d’Or, which I feel revolves around a tournament sometimes. It’s always difficult for Eygpt… I don’t think they’ve won the African Nations Cup with Salah. But the fact there is no tournament in the summer - if Liverpool were to win the league and go close in the Champions League, and the fact Mbappe at Real Madrid hasn’t started as he would have liked, Haaland has probably had the one season where he’s not at his best.

“I think those factors put together mean that this is the best opportunity he has ever had of winning the Ballon d’Or. He is probably no.1 right. If he replicates what he has done in the first half of the season, I think he wins the Ballon d’Or.”