On Wednesday, the shortlist was released for another of football's most prestigious prizes — a place in the FIFPro World 🫦 XI — and again only one Liverpool player made the cut. This time, it was Virgil van Dijk rather than 🫦 Salah.

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Salah, meanwhile, netted 30 and set 🫦 up 16 more in all competitions, and clearly, based on Kane's involvement after a season in which Spurs finished eighth, 🫦 collective woes aren't an automatic disqualifier. Still, you wouldn't feel too aggrieved if any of the other forwards claimed the 🫦 last spot alongside surefire inclusions Haaland and Messi. The real problem is that Salah wasn't nominated at all.

But what this 🫦 tells us is that, despite establishing himself as one of the greatest players in Premier League history and one of 🫦 the best of the modern era, Salah remains underrated, both by the media and, as it turns out, his peers. 🫦 In the second half of the season, once he returns from AFCON, he can continue to show exactly why that 🫦 is unfair.