NewsLiverpool's Greatest - No.4: Mohamed Salah
Years: 2017-2026
Appearances: 442
Goals: 257
Trophies: Champions League (2019), UEFA Super Cup (2019), FIFA Club World Cup (2019), Premier League (2019-20, 2024-25), League Cup (2022, 2024), FA Cup (2022)
Mohamed Salah rewrote the record books across nine years at Liverpool to put himself into the highest echelons of greatness at the club.
Such was the Egyptian’s consistency and class on the Reds’ right wing, no eyelids are batted when his name is now mentioned in the same breath as the likes of Kenny Dalglish and Steven Gerrard.
And why not, given his elite mentality, prodigious physical fitness, catalogue of jaw-dropping moments and, above all, huge goal tally?
His impact was immediate and sustained after arriving at Anfield from AS Roma in the summer of 2017 for a little under £40 million.
Perhaps with an added incentive to silence any doubters judging his non-starter previous spell at Chelsea, Salah was relentless from day one.
Deployed by Jürgen Klopp into what would become an iconic front three in unison with Roberto Firmino and Sadio Mane, the No.11 scored an incredible 44 goals in his debut season – the second-highest total in LFC history.
Rapid with and without the ball, but strong too, he could find the net in many different ways, though his trademark strike was a dribble infield from the flank and an accurate curler into the far corner.
“He created a position,” said Klopp. “For me, I call it winger-striker. You defend the wing and then when you have the ball, when you are in possession, find a position where you can make a difference.
“And these boys, oh boy, they found…”
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Watch on YouTubeAfter heartbreak in the 2018 Champions League final against Real Madrid – in which a shoulder injury ended Salah’s involvement during the first half – he and Liverpool returned a year later.
Personal and collective closure was achieved when Salah lashed home a second-minute spot-kick versus Tottenham Hotspur in Madrid and Klopp’s men went on to win the showpiece 2-0 and lift Old Big Ears.
Such bouncing back was mirrored in the Premier League a season later; 97 points had not been enough to win the title in 2018-19, but 99 certainly were in 2019-20. Salah supplied 29 goal contributions to the ending of a 30-year wait for a championship.
A standard-setter on and off the pitch to help the Reds compete at the top level again, his goal hauls in the next four campaigns came to 31, 31, 30 and 25.
That spell included a remarkable 2021-22 that featured an historic hat-trick in a 5-0 win at Old Trafford, medals in the League Cup and FA Cup, and a thrilling tilt at a quadruple that narrowly fell short.
He enhanced his all-round game, too, becoming a creator as well as finisher – evidenced by 67 assists between 2021 and 2025.
The Egyptian King, who was serenaded by adoring Kopites at every game, set his stall out publicly at the end of a 2023-24 term in which Liverpool’s title challenge faltered and Champions League football was absent.
“We know that trophies are what count and we will do everything possible to make that happen next season,” he said. “Our fans deserve it and we will fight like hell.”
The actions that followed in 2024-25 spoke even louder than those words.
It was arguably Salah’s magnum opus in the red shirt, with a record-equalling 47 goal involvements in the Premier League (29 goals, 18 assists) spearheading a run to the title being clinched with four matches to spare, under new head coach Arne Slot.
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Watch on YouTubeAs well as a second championship medal, his output earned Salah a fourth Golden Boot, third PFA Player of the Year prize and third FWA Footballer of the Year honour.
A difficult ninth season preceded the news that the forward would say an emotional farewell to Anfield in May and embark on a fresh chapter elsewhere.
Salah left as Liverpool’s third-highest scorer of all time, the Reds’ top scorer in Europe and the Premier League, and as a true legend of the game.
All those fortunate enough to see it will never forget, as the song goes, him running down the wing.