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'Stop comparing' - Mohamed Salah delivers Omar Marmoush message after Liverpool transfer links
Mohamed Salah has revealed his unease at comparisons with Liverpool-linked Omar Marmoush, with the Reds star feeling it doesn't help his Egypt team-mate during an important phase of his career.
Eintracht Frankfurt striker Marmoush has been speculatively linked with Liverpool in recent weeks after a blistering start to his Bundesliga campaign that has seen him score 11 goals and create seven assists in just 10 league games so far. Despite Arne Slot being able to pick from six international forwards for his frontline, reports in Germany have credited the Premier League leaders with an interest in Marmoush and he has inevitably been compared to Salah as a result.
Salah, however, thinks such talk won't help Marmoush as he attempts to navigate his own path, with the 10-goal top scorer feeling it only adds additional and unnecessary pressure to his international colleague at a time when he is attempting to become a star of the European game at the age of 25.
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"There are not many players from Egypt and the Arab countries who went to Europe and fought for success, and Marmoush is one of them," Salah said. "I see that he has great potential, he is an important player for his team and the national team, I want to stay away from him the idea of comparisons to make his life easier.
"I want people to stop comparing him to me, by saying that he will be the new Salah and will do what he did and overcome, that will put him under pressure all the time and does not help the player.
"It will put him in comparison with a player who has been very successful over the past years, but he is still starting his career. Let him live his experience and be happy with it, comparisons will not help him, let him do something of his own and in his direction away from my career."
Salah, who was speaking at the Sharjah International Book Fair in the UAE, also detailed how important reading has been for helping shape his own mentality as a top-level forward in the Premier League, explaining how vital it was during a difficult spell at Chelsea 10 years ago.
Salah added: "Since I left Egypt to [go to] Basel, when I started reading, the first thing that came to my head is the European player, why does he go to training before its time and go to the gym and devote their lives to football, I asked myself why they do that.
"There is a difference between Egyptian, Arab and European players, so I wanted to succeed like them, and then I wanted to achieve greater success than them so that people would say that there is a player from the Arab world who was able to outperform the rest of the players."
"I started to take a deeper interest in reading and culture during my time playing for Chelsea. It wasn't the best experience of my career, but it pushed me to defy circumstances and change my reality. Reading, in turn, has greatly influenced my way of thinking.
"I think reading is essential for any athlete. At the very least, he should be informed about his field. Reading in psychology, for example, plays a big role in athletes' success. In my opinion, behind every sporting or professional success is a broad culture, and for me I live my life in the way that suits me, not what others impose, because it is my own life."
