Milos Kerkez opens up on Mohamed Salah relationship: “He connects well with the Balkan guys”

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Image Credits: Imago ImagesWhen Liverpool splashed out £40 million to bring Milos Kerkez to Anfield from Bournemouth in the summer of 2025, few could have predicted just how quickly the Hungarian left-back would settle into life on Merseyside – and fewer still would have guessed that one of his closest allies in the dressing room would turn out to be club legend Mohamed Salah.Kerkez quickly fell into the social orbit of Salah and fellow countryman Dominik Szoboszlai, the trio becoming a tight-knit group at Liverpool’s AXA Training Centre in Kirkby.And now speaking to ESPN’s Beth Lindop, Kerkez explained that his relationship with Salah came naturally as he “connects well with Balkan guys”:“When Mo came to Liverpool, I was living in Austria [while in the academy at Rapid Vienna],” Kerkez said. He accepted me really well – like everyone did, but he took me more under his wing.

It’s going to be one month more and for sure I’m going to miss him a lot.”“He has so much experience, but what really puts Salah away from everyone else is how professional he is. I don’t think I’ve seen that in any other player, doing all the gym stuff, eating healthy, how focused he is to make sure he is doing everything to perform well on the pitch.

“He told me no so I said: ‘I’m going to take a picture of this and post it later’. It’s pretty nice, huh?“It’s more tough [for me] to have the individual trophies that he has because I’m a full back.