Jamie Carragher stands by controversial Mohamed Salah comments - 'Whether we like it or not'

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Jamie Carragher has doubled down on remarks he made last season about Mohamed Salah and the Ballon d'Or.

But the 33-year-old had every right to feel that this was his best chance of taking home the top prize, after firing Liverpool to the Premier League title.

It was a record-breaking campaign for Salah, but a slower end to the season perhaps meant that recency bias counted against him, with the award instead going to Ousmane Dembele.



Liverpool only lost out to PSG on penalties, but that absence from the latter stages of the Champions League ultimately played its part in thwarting the Ballon d'Or bid.

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But he has consistently stuck by his underlying point, and he brought it up again in light of the Ballon d'Or results.

"I go back to something I said about Salah and it obviously caused a big storm at the time about the African Cup of Nations," Carragher said on The Overlap.

"I think if Liverpool beat PSG in that game [Champions League Round of 16 last season], Liverpool maybe get to the semis, maybe win it, who knows?

"[If Liverpool do that], [Salah] probably gets [the Ballon d’Or]."

This, clearly, is far less controversial

Even then, there is every chance that Carragher is correct to say that it happens — but it is clear that it should not.

So while Carragher is right that Salah may well have got his hands on the Ballon d'Or if Liverpool had gone the distance in Europe, it does not prove his point about AFCON