'He was my driver!' - Mo Salah reveals bromance with 'crazy' Micah Richards at Fiorentina

Salah and Richards ended up in the Fiorentina dressing room after Chelsea and Manchester City deemed them surplus to their requirements and loaned them to the Serie A side. While Richards arrived on Italian shores in January 2015, the Egyptian forward joined him in the following winter. While Richards could manage just 19 appearances for La Viola, Salah ensured that he never had to walk alone and made the defender drive him to training and back home.

During an interview with Sky Sports, Salah said: "Oh my god, [Richards is] one of the craziest guys I've ever met. He's really such a nice guy.

"My family were in London and he was alone and we would always go for coffee. I didn't have a car, he picked me up always before training and after training to drop me home. He was my driver at the time!

"And we had such a nice time. He pretended his Italian was better but everybody knows it was not! But he's such a great guy and we were very close and we just stayed in touch."

Salah was sent off to Fiorentina by a disgruntled Jose Mourinho after the forward could score just two goals in 19 games for Chelsea. But the duo enjoyed their time in Florence and Richards admitted that he was shocked when Chelsea sold him off.

"We were in Florence, a beautiful city. He was like 'Can you pick me up in the morning?' and I said 'Yeah no problem at all' thinking his car was going to arrive two weeks later. I picked him up every day for six months!" the Sky Sports pundit said.

"But honestly, I know people talk about him as a player, wonderful player, exceptional, world class. But as a guy he is amazing. He's so humble, he's so driven, he's so passionate. He even said to me when we were at Fiorentina 'One day I'm going to be one of the best forwards in the world'. And he's stayed true to his word. That's the belief that he has in his own ability. I couldn't believe we at Fiorentina had him, I couldn't believe Chelsea let him go."

Salah has not looked back since he joined Liverpool as he has won the Champions League, the Premier League, two English League cups and the FA Cup. He will be back in action on Thursday evening against LASK in the Europa League at Anfield.