Liverpool legend asked LFC to sign Mo Salah but was told “not a priority!”

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Former Liverpool player Howard Gayle has revealed how he ‘put Mo Salah in’ for Liverpool but was told the Egyptian ‘wasn’t a priority’ a year before the Reds signed him. “His agent contacted me through another agent and said, ‘Here’s somebody that knows the ins and outs of Liverpool,'” the 1981 European Cup winner told This Is Anfield. • READ: How Liverpool’s first Black footballer overcame racism to aid European Cup triumph “He knew that I was linked in to Liverpool.

“I said, ‘There’s a lad there, a player there and he’s a good player, and I think he could enhance us, be what we need.’ “I forget who it was said, ‘Oh, well he’s not a priority.’ “I said, ‘Well I think he is a priority because I think that last season we were struggling.'” Gayle can’t remember exactly who he spoke to, but he thinks it was most likely sporting director Michael Edwards. I was lucky enough not to be in the meeting where the transfer committee, Michael (Edwards) and Dave (Fallows) and Barry (Hunter), had to argue their case for Mo Salah against Jurgen’s case for Julian Brandt.

“I think it’s to Jurgen’s credit that he engaged in that debate in a sort of honest way with his eyes open to say, ‘OK, I’m open to be convinced. Show me that Mo is better’.” Thankfully, Liverpool went on to sign Salah and Gayle’s instincts were proved correct.