Salah chooses himself and excludes Mane from his five-year dream team

The Egyptian Mohamed Salah, the Liverpool star, chose himself along with 4 other stars in his five-star dream team, while he excluded his two Reds colleagues, Sadio Mane and Virgil van Dijk.

Before the match between Liverpool and Real Madrid in the Champions League final, which was held on May 28 at the “Stade de France”, and witnessed the coronation of the royal team, Mohamed Salah had a television interview with Rio Ferdinand, the former Manchester United star, via the “BT Sport” network. The network broadcast part of it today, Thursday.

Ferdinand asked Mohamed Salah to choose 5 current players to form his imaginary dream team, to play a five-way match.

Salah replied, “I will choose Trent (Alexander Arnold), I love Trent, so I will choose him, as well as Bobby (Roberto Firmino), and I will choose myself.”

“Sorry Virgil, I won’t choose you, I don’t defend in my team,” the Premier League top scorer added sarcastically.

“I will also choose Lionel Messi and Cristiano Ronaldo,” Salah added, who celebrated his thirtieth birthday on Wednesday.

And Salah’s exclusion of Van Dijk may have come, after the Dutch star excluded him from his favorite five-line squad as well, in an interview with the same network that was broadcast before the Champions League final.

When Ferdinand Van Dijk asked about his five-year dream team, the defender replied at the time, “The best for me this season are Liverpool goalkeeper Alisson Becker, me, Manchester City’s Kevin De Bruyne, Paris Saint-Germain striker Kylian Mbappe, and Real Madrid striker Karim Benzema.”

By choosing Firmino at the expense of Mane, despite the latter’s preference in individual numbers during the past season, Salah revived the controversy over his relationship with the Senegalese star.

Mane is close to leaving Liverpool to move to Bayern Munich, starting from the new season, while the English club has signed Darwin Nunez, the Benfica striker.