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Mohamed Salah has revealed a softer side to the way he cares for Liverpool’s budding stars and has stressed that their mental approach is paramount to progressing.
The 31-year-old is set to continue his recovery from a hamstring injury against Sparta Prague at Anfield on Thursday night with his sights set on starting Sunday’s decisive FA Cup match against Manchester United .
Several talented Liverpool youngsters are expected to get another chance against Sparta and Salah has watched their emergence with great interest, becoming one of their biggest cheerleaders and a mentor for advice.
“The main thing is to try to talk to them and show them that you really care about them before giving them advice,” said the Liverpool striker.
“If you just give advice, without showing that player that you really care about him, he won’t really listen to you.” But, if you show that you really care about him a lot and tell him that he can achieve great things, that he can be great in there, that he just needs to do one little thing to change it, then that can work.
Mohamed Salah spoke about his role in guiding the youngest players in the Liverpool team
Amid an injury crisis, the Reds have turned to their group of talented youngsters, who helped the team lift the Carabao Cup last month.
Salah continued his recovery from injury, coming off the bench in the draw against Manchester City
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‘He is a human being, so everything is not going to change in one day. So the most important thing for me is to show the player that I really care about him, which I do, and then it’s easy to communicate, it’s easy to have him under your arm and keep talking to him.’
Salah, a self-confessed chess addict who admits to using his pastime seven to eight times a day to strategize against defenses, noted that the only advice he wishes he had received when he was 18 was to “work harder.” mentally’ and insists that that side of the game is more difficult than the physical one.
‘I work in the gym almost every day for an hour and a half. Sometimes I come home and work again, but it’s very difficult to keep working on your mental side. I do 15 minutes every day,” Salah revealed.
‘It’s complicated, really complicated, believe me. I’ve been doing it for a few years. You sit alone with yourself for 15 minutes before going to sleep or when you wake up. It’s a lot harder than an hour and a half in the gym because your mind is going everywhere.
‘It’s about things you want to achieve or situations you want to experience. You need to trick your brain, lie to yourself, so that your brain cannot distinguish between what is real and what is fake. You continue in the process until you believe in the idea.
‘You visualize your goals before they happen. Ninety percent of my goals or even more are due to that.’
Mohamed Salah has scored 19 goals in 30 games in all competitions for Liverpool this season.
talking with him Men in Jackets PodcastSalah pointed to hunger in the current squad as the driving force behind Liverpool’s bid to win a quadruple trophy this season.
“The players are very hungry, we have a good chance of winning everything, we just have to try properly because we have nothing to lose, just try.”
‘I love the whole team. The players are very interested in their football, they want to achieve great things and ask a lot of questions. I love when they ask a question because that means they really want to learn something and that’s key for me.’
