Mohamed Salah could give one last gift to Liverpool after recommendation plea

Reds legend Mohamed Salah has the opportunity to give Liverpool one last gift: recommending Trabzonspor talent Ernest Muci, who has reportedly pleaded for him to do so.

Salah and Muci have enjoyed tremendous seasons in the Super Lig and Conference League, registering 26 goal involvements between them.

Of those 25, Muci has recorded 10 – three goals, seven assists – and has now humorously pleaded for Salah to recommend him to Liverpool, expressing his intention to play in Europe’s top-5 leagues.

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Mohamed Salah could offer one last gift to Liverpool - and that is Ernest Muci

To the Reds supporters that have followed along with Salah’s exploits in Turkey this season, they’ll know that he has rediscovered his recognisable form, after losing it under Arne Slot.

In 11 Super Lig matches, 10 of which being starts, the Egyptian King has recorded nine goals and three assists, including a hat-trick versus league leaders Galatasaray.

Salah is second in the Turkish top-flight goalscoring charts, tied with Victor Osimhen, and leads the league in expected assists with 3.77xA.

For Opta-defined ‘Big Chances Created,’ the Reds legend, who received two rare honours after an unprecedented surge in Turkey, sits in third, behind assist table leader Muci.

Together, the pair have lit up the Super Lig this season, dropping just seven of 33 available points to sit second in the standings, behind Galatasaray.

Speaking after Albania’s 2-0 victory against Finland, in which Muci opened the scoring, the Trabzonspor no. 7 humorously told reporters that he hopes Salah will recommend him to Liverpool.

Salah and Muci have been phenomenal this season. (Image - Getty)

“I hope Salah recommends me to Liverpool,” claimed Muci, as plainly as has been reported across Turkey and Albania. “I hope that one day I can move to Europe’s top-5 leagues.”

Should Salah fulfil his request - only after he’s been aided by Muci to a Turkish trophy, surely - then Liverpool would consider the possibility of signing a tremendously talented player, aged just 25.

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What makes Ernest Muci so special?

Muci is one of those rare player types, an attacking midfielder, that can pick out a pass from seemingly nowhere, while also possessing an absolute cannon of a shot.

In Trabzonspor’s latest game, a 2-0 win away at Alanyaspor, the Egyptian King found the net inside of 35 minutes to score Trabzonspor’s second and final goal of the afternoon.

Minutes prior, an absolutely stunning team move, in which the Turkish side combined brilliantly under pressure, culminated, or almost did, in a remarkable Muci through ball.

With the outside of his boot, the Trabzonspor playmaker curled a delicious pass round two defenders to Salah, who was unable to convert the one-on-one.

That moment – combined with Muci’s rocket of a finish in Trabzonspor’s previous league game versus Gaziantep, in which he also provided an assist – summed up the no. 7 this season.

Muci scored a screamer versus Gaziantep. (Image - Getty)

To go further back, in the game before his Man of the Match display against Gaziantep, he provided three assists in a single match.

Trabzonspor prevailed 4-3 after trailing by two at Rizespor, applying pressure to a Galatasaray side gunning for a historic Super Lig five-peat. Muci, again, was at the centre of all things.

The Albanian has enjoyed a quietly tremendous season only because Salah’s form has been so extraordinary, and that of new signing Franculino Dju, who has already struck seven goals.

Trabzonspor are looking to be a serious contender in this Super Lig title race, and if silverware is achieved come the season’s end, then Muci would be in line for a European step up.

If Salah was willing to part with his favourite playmaker - Muci also roams out regularly onto the wing - then Liverpool would surely receive his recommendation.

The Reds’ attacking line-up under Andoni Iraola is relatively stacked, and Florian Wirtz could prevent the ten from making his desired move to Anfield; however, Muci would be a cheap purchase and arrive as a student of Salah.

Should he do so, he would arrive on Merseyside at more or less the same age as Salah did when he joined the Reds. Liverpool fans should ask themselves: is his recommendation the only thing left stopping history from repeating itself?

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