2023 Player Reviews: #3 Christian Salem

[Demonland 66,980]

Date of Birth: 15 July, 1995
Height: 184cm
Weight: 81kg

Games MFC 2023: 16
Career Total: 159
 
Goals MFC 2023: 0
Career Total: 25

Brownlow Medal Votes: 1

Salem’s overactive thyroid, which had troubled him earlier in his career, returned earlier this year to interrupt his preseason and delay his start to 2023. Then, just as he was set to return to play, scans revealed a small meniscus tear which kept him out until the Port Adelaide game in Round 10. Although he played out the rest of the season and was a steady performer for the most part, he never reached the heights he reached in Melbourne’s premiership season.

[Diamond_Jim 12,108]

28 years of age.

For list balance we need this guy to keep going until 32 at good/top form.

Key year for this player

[poita 3,759]

If he can't get his body right this year, then we have some tough decisions to make. He has missed far too much football or otherwise played well below his ability far too often over the last few years. Undoubtedly he is a very good player at his best, but he is not good enough to carry indefinitely at reduced capacity.