Gary Neville compares Mo Salah to Cristiano Ronaldo amid Liverpool row - 'best in the world'

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Prior to the announcement that Salah would be included in the Reds' squad for Saturday's match against Brighton, Neville shared his thoughts on the matter with Sky Sports."I see it from both sides," began Neville. "I wouldn't see it from an ordinary player's side, but when you have this level of player who's like the best in the world, which I would put Mo Salah up there with - you just sometimes not have to accept what he's done because Cristiano Ronaldo did it here and I didn't take to it too kindly at all.READ MORE: Liverpool star reveals Mo Salah's role in Anfield dressing room after Arne Slot recallREAD MORE: Should Liverpool sell Mo Salah?

It's easy for me when it's at Liverpool because I can sit back and relax a little bit.""I wouldn't like it if it was at my club Manchester United and I didn't do a few years ago when Cristiano did the big interview and I thought it was wrong."I thought the timing was wrong, I thought the way in which it was delivered was wrong and I can see why Liverpool fans would be upset that he's gone in there after the game."But actually, I was doing the game, I thought he should have come on the pitch, that was my personal opinion."I said it in commentary that I thought substitution should be made and that Liverpool needed to go for it and they did score a goal pretty quickly after but I still thought he should have been on the pitch."Neville went on: "I can see why he was upset but I can see also from Liverpool's perspective that they feel let down and they feel like he's obviously put a lot of attention on them that wasn't needed in a moment of challenge and difficulty."So I see it from both sides. If it was a player that didn't have the level of talent or experience or success of Mo Salah, I think that they would probably be kicked out pretty quickly."But when you're that exceptional and you're that talented, and you have the, I'm not going to call it the ego, but the presence of a great player, you don't accept being put on the bench and not being put on, you just don't."I played with a number of players who were exactly the same, who to be fair, left this club the minute that that was the case for them.

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