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Source: Football Weekly (The Guardian) — World Cup playoff drama and Salah’s legacy at Liverpool: Football Weekly Extra
Duration: 59 min
Mo Salah Liverpool departure
Mo Salah announced on Tuesday he's going to leave Liverpool at the end of the season. He'll go down as an absolute legend. Everyone will forget the last bits of negativity; the montages won't include him stood in a mix zone at Leeds, there'll be goals and him stood on podiums lifting trophies.
World Cup 2026 expansion
What we've got now is 48 teams, some of which are not very good. It's going to be very hard for a half-decent team not to get through. It introduces the randomness and the jeopardy at the wrong stage.
Mo Salah social impact
Since Mo Salah joined Liverpool, hate crimes in the area and anti-Muslim comments went down. Anti-Muslim comments dropped by 50 percent. It's an incredible impact on and off the pitch.
Mo Salah legacy
Jose Mourinho gets rid of him [Salah] from Chelsea in the same season he gets rid of Kevin De Bruyne. In the season when he says, 'I only have to look at a player for 10 minutes to know if he's any good or not.' That probably shows just how significant circumstances and environment is.
Liverpool post-Salah era
If Federico Chiesa goes on and scores 40 goals next season and Liverpool win the league, then he'll get the statue and that's the nature of the game. You have to wait a few years for it to happen.
England squad selection
I think fullbacks are the areas where those days when England had the 15 best right-backs in the world were all English seem a long time ago. I don't think there's any clarity on who's going to get those positions.
If Rhys James does start for England in the summer at right-back, I think he's one of the best right-backs that will be at that entire tournament and can be a difference-maker in so many subtle ways.
Uruguay national team
Uruguay is three and a half million population, they're never going to have a consistent level of good players. I think one generation is just getting to the end, so Suarez has retired, Vecino's fallen out of the side, Bentancur has had injury issues.
