‘You could see’… Cesc Fabregas says one Liverpool player has improved his finishing so much

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Cesc Fabregas has praised the improvements Mohamed Salah has made to his game at Liverpool.

Fabregas played with Salah when the Egyptian was struggling to make an impact at Chelsea. Having joined the Blues as a 21-year-old, Salah just couldn’t get going.

Two goals in 19 games didn’t suggest that anything special was around the corner. But having rebuilt himself in Italy, Mo turned up at Liverpool in 2017 and quickly marked himself out as a brilliant goal scorer.

More than six years on, and Salah has over 200 goals for the Reds. Now, speaking to Planet Premier League on the BBC, Fabregas says that although the blueprints were there, he hadn’t seen Liverpool’s No.11 becoming the prolific finisher he has since grown into.

“He was not so prolific in front of goal,” said the World Cup winner.

“Maybe it was lack of chances. You could see his trends. You could see he was quick. You could see that he was attacking the spaces. But then when he had one against ones, maybe he was not as strong as he is now.”

Fabregas hails Salah improvement

Football really is a funny old game isn’t it. Fabregas isn’t the first who played with Salah at Chelsea to express his surprise at the Liverpool man’s turnaround.

John Obi Mikel also recently claimed that he truly hadn’t seen it coming at all.

Clearly, Salah wasn’t especially valued at Chelsea. Now, he could quite easily have done what plenty of young Blues players have done over the years – gone out on endless loan after loan and seen his value and confidence diminish.

But Mo obviously understood his own worth. He wasn’t going to wait around for Chelsea to see that too. He was determined to make it in spite of his tough time at Stamford Bridge.

So, he got out. After a successful loan spell at Fiorentina – where Micah Richards acted as his driver – Salah moved permanently to Roma.

From there, the signs that he was destined to become a top goal scorer were more obvious. And that’s when Liverpool swooped.

From a Reds point of view, it couldn’t have gone better. Had Salah done better at Chelsea, they perhaps wouldn’t have had the chance to sign him in 2017.

In fairness, Mo still isn’t the cleanest of finishers. But my word is he effective in-front of goal. If that wasn’t obvious to Fabregas in 2014, it certainly is now.