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But not nearly as scary as seeing the whites of Mo Salah’s eyes as he breezes past you on the wing before pulling further clear in the Golden Boot race.

With 27 goals and 18 assists in just 33 Premier League starts this season, the evergreen Egyptian is producing all-timer numbers as Liverpool close in on a second-ever top-flight title.

But there remains one full-back who, for whatever reason, Salah just can’t seem to shake.

And, while Milos Kerkez is the left-back most frequently linked with Liverpool, there are some at Anfield who would prefer to pair Salah and Antonee Robinson up at Anfield with the £40 million-rated Fulham speedster viewed by some as the preferred option.

Football correspondent Graeme Bailey informed RTK that Robinson is a summer target for Liverpool.

The consensus around Robinson, meanwhile, is that he is currently the finest left-back the Premier League has to offer.

The runaway Premier League leaders have had plenty of chances to watch Robinson up close during his ten meetings with the Reds since the beginning of the 2020/21 campaign.

And when you consider that Mo Salah has not even registered a shot on target up against Antonee Robinson this season – let alone a goal – you can see why the one-time Wigan Athletic flyer has picked up plenty of admirers on Merseyside.

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In fact, you have to go back to March 2023 to find Salah’s last goal against Fulham.

In the four games since, the usually-irrepressible winger has found himself pretty well controlled by a man who, if he decided to sell self-help books to Premier League footballers on dealing with Mo Salah, would make a mint.

“We played Liverpool in the first game of the [2022/23] season,” Robinson recalls, in conversation with The Athletic.

And three years on, with Robinson now firmly established as if not the best in his position then one of the best, Salah may just be the happiest man in town if Liverpool strike a deal with Fulham and release their talisman from under the American’s lock and key.

When asked to pick the wingers he has had the most difficulty with, meanwhile, it felt telling that Robinson chose not Salah but Aston Villa’s Leon Bailey.

“I would say Leon Bailey’s up there,” Robinson said.

But, while I’ve been in the Prem, most of the time I’ve played well against them.”

While Robinson is renowned most for his searing pace and his much-improved delivery from out wide – only Newcastle’s Jacob Murphy and Salah himself have more than his 10 league assists – a man who left Everton in 2019 without a single senior appearance is also a very solid, one-v-one defender.

He sits fourth in the table for interceptions.
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