Jamie Carragher picks the one overseas player in Premier League history above Mohamed Salah

Jamie Carragher has revealed the only overseas player in Premier League history he would put above Mohamed Salah after the Egyptian superstar announced he will be leaving Liverpool at the end of the season. The 33-year-old is the third-highest scorer in Liverpool’s history and has won two Premier Leagues, the Champions League , the FA Cup, the Carabao Cup and the Club World Cup in his nine years at Anfield. He has shattered records at Liverpool since he was signed from Roma in 2017, scoring 255 goals in 435 appearances in all competitions, and was the unanimous player of the year as the Reds lifted the Premier League title last season.

Mohamed Salah has been a star for Liverpool for almost a decade (Peter Byrne/PA Wire) He signed a two-year contract extension towards the final weeks of last campaign but Liverpool said an agreement has been reached to end that early as he announced he would be exiting Anfield come the end of the current campaign. Liverpool legend Carragher believes “the Premier League will soon be deprived of [a] world-class, generational talent” and, in his column for The Telegraph, declared that only one foreigner in the history of the Premier League has surpassed the efforts of Salah. “In the pantheon of overseas attacking players to have excelled in England, only Thierry Henry eclipses Salah’s output and consistency,” wrote Carragher.

“While many will argue the merits of players like Cristiano Ronaldo, Eden Hazard, Gianfranco Zola, Dennis Bergkamp or Eric Cantona, none of them produced the same devastating numbers as consistently, season-after-season, as the Egyptian. “Ronaldo’s time at Manchester United, both initially and upon his return, was either side of his absolute, Real Madrid-peak years. Salah edges ahead of him when judging strictly on Premier League performance and impact.

In an all-time Premier League XI, Salah is an automatic inclusion in the front three alongside Henry and Ronaldo. ” Jamie Carragher (right) has had disagreements with Salah (left) on occasion (Getty Images) Thierry Henry is the only overseas player that Carragher would rate above Salah (Getty Images) Carragher praised Salah for altering the course of the club’s history in the Jurgen Klopp era and highlighted the signing of him and Virgil van Dijk as the two key bits of recruitment. The former defender also lauded his creativity and his goalscoring record for the Reds but was keen to pinpoint another, underrated aspect Salah.