Salah joined Liverpool in the summer of 2017 from Roma for a fee of £37million. The Egypt international’s debut season at Anfield was a prolific one, in which he scored 44 goals in all competitions.
Salah hasn’t been as prolific this campaign, though he has found the back of the net 19 times.
His return this season has coincided with him playing more of a central role for the Reds.
Fowler has been impressed by what he’s seen of Salah in his new position and believes he’s starting to develop a striker’s mindset.
“It might be a case of other players or other staff like the manager saying ‘You take the pens and we’ll help you score more goals, we’ll help you become a more rounded player’,” the former England forward told Liverpool’s official website.
“He’s not unbelievably greedy or unbelievably selfish so I wouldn’t read much into it in that way, but I think his game has changed and he does look a little bit focused or a little bit more direct in terms of wanting to score goals and to be a great goalscorer.
“I think at times you do need to have a little bit of selfishness about you and he has got that.
“I’m not saying that’s a good or a bad thing, but if you look at all the great strikers of yesteryear – whether they played for Liverpool or not – they’ve always had that little bit of greed in them, so it’s good for him and it’s certainly good for us.”
In his first season-and-a-half on Merseyside, Salah has scored a staggering 48 league goals in 61 appearances.
The Egyptian’s total league tally in England currently stands at 50 goals, a record which has blown away Fowler.
“His record’s brilliant, it really is,” Fowler said. “When you watch him play you just know that you’re more or less guaranteed to get chances and obviously if he keeps getting chances he’s going to continue to score goals.
“So him getting to 50 Premier League goals, I think he was quicker than anyone in Liverpool’s history – and that in itself, when you think of the quality of the strikers and players we’ve had at the club, is incredible.
“The way he’s played up there hasn’t surprised me because I think you just knew that he was a good player regardless of where he played and you knew he was going to get chances.
“At times he does look a little bit unorthodox with the way he strikes the ball.
“I mean, he’s not as fluent as some strikers have been in the past in the way he strikes it, but that doesn’t really matter – he’s effective.
“I’m not surprised because you look at some of the goals last year and this year, he scores goals out of nothing.
“I think he’s a good player and, regardless, whatever era you look at, the good players can play anywhere. Clever players can play anywhere and he epitomises a clever player.”
Salah and his Liverpool team-mates will be back in action on Saturday afternoon when they welcome Bournemouth to Anfield.
Jurgen Klopp’s troops go into the match having relinquished top spot to Manchester City, who they trail on goal difference.