I'm not sure where you're coming from here, saying that Robben was a failure at 24 tbh.
He was already world class, and yes, way better than Salah (although Salah's had a great season in Rome).
Didn't say he was a failure. I said he got the boot from RM and Chelsea. Which he did. Because he was often injured at Chelsea and because RM got destroyed in the CL by Liverpool. Chelsea's such a weird club though that it's hard to judge anything by that, because after all they sold Salah too.
The latter sentence is just not true, but I can see why people think that. Frankly, the road to the top for an Egyptian and Dutch player are so different that I don't blame anyone for thinking it. Let's put it this way. If Robben fires his team to the World Cup everyone will be paying attention. If they fail to make the Euro somebody else will be blamed. If Salah does it (and he is right now), nobody will even slightly pay attention. If Salah advances his team through AFCON by scoring nobody will care either. He did that by the way. Then he scores in the knockout rounds but nobody cares. Assist in the final, nobody cares. But if Salah was Dutch he would have been playing at Ajax from age 19-20 and long been at a top club. I'm just saying it's far more difficult for somebody from such a football backwater to get into the clubs Robben got to.
It's also not like this is Salah's first great season. He was Roma's top scorer last year from the wing in a notoriously difficult league to score in. The bloke also has 15 assists in all competitions and Dzeko will probably win the golden boot because of it. For what it's worth this will be Roma's greatest point total in history if they get just one more point. Most goals scored as well.
I don't have any particular fascination with Salah, he just is better than Robben at this age. The statistics prove it even though he's playing for worse teams and he doesn't have the injury problems Robben had. He is also a world class player. You'll only find a few wingers who contribute as much to their teams attack. Of course this is probably as good as Salah gets. Not arguing otherwise.
But the original comment was about Salah being one footed. Robben isn't one footed? Coutinho isn't? One footed has literally nothing to do with anything in football. Salah isn't even one of my favorite players (I don't really love wingers, my favorite players are always hard tackling CB's and deep midfielders), he's just a very good player.