The Egyptian King has racked up 28 goals and 18 assists this season alone and he's not done yet…
Lifting team trophies is what motivates Mohamed Salah. He wouldn't have signed a new contract with Liverpool otherwise. There was more money to be made in the Middle East but more glory on offer on Merseyside. As he said after Liverpool claimed a record-equalling 20th title last weekend, "All teams win games but, in the end, there's only one champion – that's what history remembers."
However, Salah is very clearly and quite justifiably proud of the pivotal role he played in his side's success. Amid the wild scenes of celebration at Anfield sparked by Sunday's 5-1 rout of Spurs, the Egyptian even revealed that he told Arne Slot before the start of the season that a reduction in his defensive duties would result in an increase in his offensive output. "I am glad that I did that," Salah told . "The manager listened and now you can see the numbers."
Indeed, this season's haul of 28 goals and 18 assists would suggest that, at 32, Salah is arguably playing as well as ever before. He has broken a plethora of records over the past nine months, and, having just extended his stay at Liverpool until 2027, could easily end up smashing several more…
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After dropping four points in their previous two games, against Newcastle and Fulham, Liverpool reasserted their superiority over the rest of the Premier League with a stunning 6-3 demolition of Spurs on December 22.
It was also a hugely significant day for Salah, who not only scored twice in north London, but also set up goals for Dominik Szoboszlai and Luis Diaz.
In doing so, he reached double figures for both goals and assists in the same season for the fourth consecutive year, and the sixth time overall (both records).
Salah also became the first man to achieve the feat before Christmas.
"I didn’t think about it before the game, to be fair, but I’m glad I did it," he told Sky. "[It's] something that makes me happy. I'm proud and I'll just keep working hard."
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Liverpool effectively sealed the title with a statement victory over Manchester City at the Etihad on February 23. Unsurprisingly, Salah was the star of the show.
A clever corner-kick routine helped him break the deadlock, with Salah sweeping home Dominik Szoboszlai's deft, near-post flick after just 14 minutes play.
Their roles were effectively reversed just before the break, when Salah laid the ball off for his Hungarian team-mate, who fired Liverpool into a 2-0 lead that they never had any intention of relinquishing.
For Salah, it meant another little piece of history, as he became the first man since Lionel Messi in 2014-15 to both score and assist in 11 games in the same season across any of Europe's 'Big Five' leagues.
In addition, no Premier League player had ever before scored and assisted in both games against the reigning champions. With his heroics at the Etihad, Salah also took his overall tally of goals (nine) and assists (six) against teams coached by Pep Guardiola to 15 – another historic haul.
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Just two days after finally signing a two-year contract extension with Liverpool, Salah showed precisely why the club were willing to give him a lucrative new deal by leaving Luis Diaz with a tap-in against West Ham with a sublime, outside-of-the-boot cross from the left flank.
It was a record-breaking assist, too, as it took Salah to 45 goal involvements for the 2024-25 campaign – a new Premier League record for a 38-game season.
The crazy thing is that Salah is now perfectly placed to claim the 42-game record, too.
Last week's strike against Spurs has moved him to 45 goal involvements in just 34 appearances; with just two more in Liverpool's final four outings, he'd move past the previous milestone set by Alan Shearer and Andy Cole.
Given he's also committed himself to Liverpool for at least another two years, we can't rule out Salah claiming top spot in the overall rankings too.
He's fifth right now, on 270, but it's only a matter of time before Salah surpasses both Ryan Giggs (271) and Frank Lampard (279), and if he were to maintain his current rate of productivity (and we're seeing little evidence to suggest that he won't!), he could end up reeling in Rooney (311) and Shearer (324) as well.
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Thierry Henry is almost universally regarded as the greatest player in Premier League history. However, Salah has emerged as a very real threat to the Frenchman's throne and is now threatening to equal some of Henry's most impressive feats.
What obviously made Arsenal's all-time leading scorer so great was the fact that he didn't just score goals, he created them too.
Indeed, Henry is the only player in Premier League history to have both scored and assisted 20 or more goals in the same season, while the World Cup winner also shares the record for most assists across a single campaign (20) with Manchester City legend Kevin De Bruyne.
Salah, though, is just two assists away from matching both of those remarkable achievements, so you can be sure that he'll be begging Slot to start all four of Liverpool's remaining matches even though the title has already been wrapped up.