Alisson: Salah has grown up enormously at Liverpool

Mohamed Salah has matured “enormously” at Liverpool, according to goalkeeper Alisson.

“The ‘Mo’ that I found at Liverpool was completely different to the one that I met for the first time at Roma,” he told France Football. “I did not speak very good English, and he spoke Italian badly. We had a good relationship, but it was limited because of language. When I arrived here, he was the first person that I got close to.

“In Italy, he already had the quality and potential that we all know of, but he did not have the self-belief that he has discovered here. It has all changed. He has grown up enormously, taken on another dimension and this club has a lot to do with it.”

Alisson expanded upon that point by hailing the city as one in which there is a unique culture of everyone willing the club to do better. And he says that it rubs off on the players.

“You don’t realise it from the outside but, when you arrive in a club, when you live in this city, you discover that everyone aspires for you to do better,” he said.

“Not only the staff, your coaches, but the entire environment, the media, the fans, everyone who loves this club make it so that it doesn’t resemble any other club in the world. It gives you enormous confidence and strength.”