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Mohamed Salah vowed to try and defend the Premier League title with Liverpool after collecting the PFA Players' Player of the Year award on Tuesday.
Salah was the nailed-on winner for the award and become the first player to claim it on three occasions, having also won it in 2017-18 and 2021-22.
Taking to social media afterward, Salah wrote: "This very special award hits different when we have an important trophy to go along with it. Being champions is what matters and we will fight to do it again this season. I am incredible grateful to the players who voted for me."
It's easy to forget that Salah posted brilliant numbers against the backdrop of contract uncertainty last season, and when he finally put pen to paper on a renewal toward the end of the campaign, it was clear that he felt that staying at Liverpool would give him the best chance of continuing to enjoy team success in his career.
Meanwhile, Salah was asked after winning the award whether he thought his career successes would have been possible when he was a young boy in Egypt.
"No! I don't want to lie," Salah responded. "Of course I wanted to be a football player, I just wanted to be famous and to provide for my family.
"But you don't think about that big stuff when you are in Egypt or you are still so small. But then when you grow and start to see things different and you start to have ambition then you start to see the bigger picture.
"All the things I started seeing but not really when I was in Egypt."
Salah explained why he and Liverpool have been such a good match for each other, with the 33-year-old now into his ninth season with the club.
Salah began his ninth Premier League season as a Liverpool player in the same fashion to how he started the first: by scoring a goal.
He now has 246 goals and 113 appearances for the Reds, making him the third-highest scorer in the club's history.
"I think we've been very, very good to each other," Salah said. "And I told the manager that because I believe what I can give him and what I can give the club. He said, 'OK, well I'll put you in situations [where] you can provide numbers.' I did that very well."
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