“I think we’re seeing an all-time season” - Jaime Carragher heaps praises on Liverpool star with Lionel Messi and Cristiano Ronaldo comparison

Sky Sports pundits Jamie Carragher and Gary Neville have compared Liverpool superstar Mohamed Salah with Lionel Messi and Cristiano Ronaldo. The Egyptian maestro is arguably having a career-best season under the tutelage of newly-appointed head coach Arne Slot.

Cristiano Ronaldo and Lionel Messi are considered two of the best players to have ever played the game. The two had established an unparalleled duopoly over world football during their primes and are still considered benchmarks in football. In that regard, Carragher compared Mohamed Salah's current season with the career-best seasons of the two veterans.

Mohamed Salah seems en route to having the best-ever season by a player at Anfield. The 32-year-old Egyptian has already racked up 30 goal contributions (17 goals and 13 assists) in 18 Premier League games this season. At present, he has a goal contribution every 52.9 minutes for the Merseysiders in the Premier League.

Neville and Carragher talked about Salah's season during during Sky Sports’ Monday Night Football. Carragher opined (quoted by Liverpool.com):

“I think we’re seeing an all-time season. There were so many stats flying about there yesterday on social media and I thought ‘what’s the best [numbers] a Messi or Ronaldo has had halfway through the season?’ We know their numbers for years were so great.”

Sky Sports' team produced a graphic that showed other greats of the game compared to Mohamed Salah's record-breaking season. It showed that Salah's G+A number at this stage of the season has only been beaten once by Ronaldo and twice by Messi.

The two were the only players to have outclassed Salah's numbers, with superstars like Robert Lewandowski, Erling Haaland, Kylian Mbappe, and Harry Kane ranking far down the list.

“What Ronaldo and Messi did for 10, 12 years, we were all blown away by one of the greatest things we’ve seen watching those two. Salah sits in third in that table behind them - an unbelievable level of performance. One of the best we have seen in the Premier League,” added Neville.

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Jamie Carragher gives Ballon d'Or shouts to Mohamed Salah after comparison with Lionel Messi and Cristiano Ronaldo

Lionel Messi and Cristiano Ronaldo - UEFA Champions League - Source: Getty

During Sky Sports’ Monday Night Football, Jamie Carragher and Gary Neville turned the conversation to the Ballon d'Or after comparing Mohamed Salah with Lionel Messi and Cristiano Ronaldo.

Carragher reckoned that Salah felt hard done by for not bagging the Ballon d'Or despite consistently being among the best in the world.

“I think Mo Salah has always seen himself, maybe not as good as Messi and Ronaldo but in that stratosphere as one of the best players in the world and he feels he has unjustly not been given certain awards,” said Carragher.

The former Liverpool centre-back opined that Salah's alleged Ballon d'Or snub was because of Egypt not faring well in international tournaments. Both Lionel Messi and Cristiano Ronaldo play for nations that are favorites to do well in most competitions.

Carragher concluded that the Egyptian star has a chance of winning the award if he can hold on to his form for the rest of the season.

“I think those factors put together mean that this is the best opportunity he has ever had of winning the Ballon d’Or. He is probably no.1 right. If he replicates what he has done in the first half of the season, I think he wins the Ballon d’Or,” he concluded.

Lionel Messi and Cristiano Ronaldo had established an uncontested dominance over the Ballon d'Or for over a decade during their primes. At present Lionel Messi has eight Ballons d'Or while Cristiano Ronaldo has five.