3 reasons why Mohamed Salah deserves to be Player of the Year

#2 Improvement as a player

Mohamed Salah has taken only 85 minutes to score a goal this season

The Egyptian's infamous knack to miss when it seems far easier to score forced Chelsea to send him out on various frustrating loan spells and eventually offload him to Roma where he managed to revive his faltering career.

When Liverpool signed him, Salah was returning to the country which had proved to be his nemesis and that could have made his adaptation into the very fast-paced Premier League a little bit tricky. But he has proved all these theories as mere fiction.

According to Opta stats, nearly 61 percent of his shots have been on target and he takes only 85 minutes to score a goal which is superior to other competitors (Harry Kane and Sergio Aguero are taking 102 and 93 minutes per goal respectively).

It is quite remarkable that Salah has maintained an astonishing consistency over the course of the season. Not once has he gone longer than two league games without scoring and he’s scored in 21 of his 31 appearances so far in the Premier League.

The most ludicrous aspect of Salah’s goal scoring is how much his conversion rate has improved as the season has progressed. In his first 20 league appearances of the season, Salah scored 15 times from 75 shots, a neat 20 percent conversion rate that is pretty bloody impressive for a wide forward.

Since then, Salah has scored 14 times from 47 shots. That is a period of truly elite finishing, and he’s also regularly creating chances.

A lot of eyebrows were raised when Liverpool splashed £36.9 million to sign him, that now looks a bargain and has looked so for quite some time.