Former Liverpool midfielder Gini Wijnaldum knew exactly who to call when Jose Mourinho and Roma came knocking at the door.
“I wanted to come because of the effort the club made to sign me and because I spoke to Mo Salah about the club and the city and I only heard good stories about it,” said the Dutchman earlier this week when explaining the move.
It was, of course, at Roma that Salah produced the consistent standard of performance that prompted Jurgen Klopp to rubber-stamp his Liverpool arrival in the summer of 2017. Wijnaldum, having bent the ear of his former team-mate and a few other old colleagues, has agreed to spend the season in the Italian capital on loan from Paris Saint-Germain.
