‘Up there with Steven Gerrard’… Ian Rush says £34m man is now one of Liverpool’s best ever players

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Ian Rush has claimed that one of Jurgen Klopp’s current squad has become a true legend at Liverpool.

As the club’s all-time top scorer, Rush is a icon at Anfield. It’s unlikely that his 346 goals for the Reds will indeed ever be beaten.

If there’s one man that is perhaps in with a shout though, then it’s Mohamed Salah. Since arriving at Liverpool in 2017, Salah has already tumbled a whole host of records.

And according to Rush himself, the Egyptian’s career with the Reds has been ‘up there with Steven Gerrard’s‘.

“He’s incredible,” the legendary striker told the Liverpool ECHO of Salah. “He’s a very professional man and he wants to play every game. To score 200 goals is incredible, 150 in the Premier League.

“If you go from the start of the Premier League, I put Steven Gerrard up there and Mo Salah is up there with him and goes down as Liverpool’s best players.”

Salah gets Rush backing

This praise should mean a lot to Salah. It isn’t all that often that Rush speaks out publicly about Liverpool’s current team.

As one of the club’s best ever and most iconic players, his words carry a great deal of weight, though.

For Mo, he’s had all manner of wonderful things said about him by some luminaries of the game. But at Liverpool, the praise of Rush, Kenny Daglish and one or two others should be placed above all else.

Of course, Salah has completely earned all of the superlatives that have come his way.

By now, it’s hard to argue against him being crowned as one of Liverpool’s very best players of the Premier League era.

That metric obviously excludes the likes of Rush and Dalglish from consideration. As a result, you’d have to say that Salah’s only real competition is Gerrard.

For us though, we’d still back Stevie G in this one. Although Mo has done something Gerrard never did in winning the Premier League, Gerrard’s influence over 17 seasons at the top was something incredible.

As the club’s top goalscorer in the history of the division though, Salah is a very close second. If he signs a new contract and stays at Liverpool for years to come, he very well could overtake Gerrard. Either way, as Rush points out, we’ve been privileged to see Salah strut his stuff at Anfield.