Mohamed Salah: Liverpool forward ‘the best player’ in the world, says Jurgen Klopp

Liverpool boss Jurgen Klopp called Mohamed Salah "the best" player on the planet after the Egyptian's glorious showcase in the 5-0 success at Watford.

Salah's superb miss put out Sadio Mane's initial objective and he covered a shocking exhibition with a splendid individual objective.

Beaten Watford supervisor Claudio Ranieri added: "Mo Salah is probably the best player on the planet, if not awesome. All that he contacts is an objective."

"He is top. We as a whole see it. Who is superior to him?" Klopp told BT Sport.

"His exhibition was monstrous today. The pass for the main objective was extraordinary and the subsequent objective was exceptional."

Salah has now scored in every one of his beyond eight games for the Reds, the longest run of successive scoring appearances for the club since Daniel Sturridge, who additionally scored in eight, in February 2014.

His work against the Hornets – meshing away from a few safeguards prior to twisting into the furthest corner – was of comparative quality to his objective in the Reds' last first class match, against Manchester City, which Klopp said would be recollected by allies "in 50 or 60 years' time".

"He's the sort of player who can do these things for us," Klopp added.

"They are various objectives. The other one was somewhat more powerful with more space. Neither one of the objectives is feasible for individuals with typical feet however it's workable for himself and that makes it truly extraordinary. You could see the manner in which the group commended the objective that everybody realized it was an exceptional thing."

Salah's objective takes him level with previous Chelsea striker Didier Drogba as the most elevated scoring African player in Premier League history with 104 objectives.

Individual Reds forward Mane, whose objective took his own Premier League count to 100, added: "Mo is probably the best player on the planet. That objective astonishments you all yet we see it all the time in preparing."

Aside from Luka Modric in 2018, just Lionel Messi or Cristiano Ronaldo have won the Ballon d'Or for the world's best player beginning around 2008.

Nonetheless, Klopp accepts that the 29-year-old is presently obscuring that vaunted couple.

"We don't need to discuss how Messi and Ronaldo have helped world football and their strength. Yet, the present moment, he [Salah] is awesome.

"I see him consistently. There are individuals like [Robert] Lewandowski and Ronaldo and Messi and [Kylian] Mbappe, however as of now without a doubt he's on first spot on that list."

Talking on BBC One, previous England safeguard Martin Keown embraced Klopp's view, saying: "The pass from Mo Salah to Sadio Mane was amazing. We are seeing Salah at Lionel Messi's level."

Furthermore, Micah Richards, another ex-England safeguard, told BBC Radio 5 Live: At this second in time Liverpool resemble the group to beat. At the point when I watched Salah against Manchester City a little while back he was as his life and he can't be halted right now.

"As a group all that appears as though it's meeting up and they truly look solid. Salah is awesome forward in European football right now as I would see it."