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In the past 24 hours, a disproportionate amount of fully grown men have been spotted crying in the Merseyside area. It’s what happens when Mo Salah announces that after 435 games, 255 goals and eight major trophies, he will be packing up his ridiculous trophy cabinet and leaving Liverpool Football Club at the end of the season.
We’re probably setting a few more people off here, aren’t we? And when we mention that mazy run inside the Man City penalty area or the time the Egyptian King became the only visiting player to score a hat-trick at Old Trafford, we’re bound to get a few more welling up.
Whether Mo Salah’s sit down video on Instagram in front of said ridiculous trophy cabinet (which people have duly noticed needs more shelves installed) took you by surprise or not, it was a timely reminder that a) he is an absolute Premier League legend and every single football fan will miss him in some capacity, b) his smile is just as unbeatable as his knack for scoring bangers and c) he may have missed some sitters in his time, but he’s never missed an opportunity to rock a sick watch.
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The thought process that goes through Salah’s mind when picking what horological grail to wear is something we are yet to predict. For example, when he scooped up another PFA award last summer, he colour matched his fit with a Richard Mille RM 74-02, a more dressy RM if there is such a thing.
But sporty, fast and expensive was the order of the day for yesterday’s announcement. The Richard Mille RM30-01 is linked to the world of motorsports, specifically Le Mans and while it’s not quite in one of a kind territory, nonetheless it’s a rare and bold thing like Salah himself. This one is white ceramic with a matching rubber strap and though we doubt Salah has ever been able to fully articulate what the benefits are of his watch being an automatic winding piece with a declutchable rotor to his Liverpool teammates, take it from us that it makes up for a lot of the watch’s energy, the 55 hours of power reserve and its technical specificity accounts for why it costs about as much as Salah's weekly salary (circa £300,000).
The aesthetics are easier to wax lyrical about IRL as the skeletonised automatic-winding movement is on full display on a dial that charts hours, minutes and seconds with a rather oversized date window at 4 o’clock.
Between now and the end of the season, there are a maximum of 15 Liverpool games left that Mo Salah could feature in. Two things are for sure: one, they’ll scouse, sorry, scarce be a dry eye in The Kop End at Anfield every match until the final day of the season against Brentford, and two, this absolutely won’t be the last killer watch we see him flex. Here's hoping we cop some more bangers in the next few months.