NewsMohamed Salah: I am blessed - I will always love Liverpool FC
The forward will bring the curtain down on one of the greatest individual Reds careers in history when the 2025-26 season concludes on Sunday.
The Premier League clash with Brentford will see Salah say goodbye to a club for whom only two men have ever scored more goals.
Salah’s current total is 257 strikes in 441 appearances – numbers that are the headlines of a spell laden with individual and personal honours.
Two league titles, a Champions League, FIFA Club World Cup, UEFA Super Cup and multiple domestic cup medals sit alongside his achievements of four Golden Boots, and three PFA Player of the Year and FWA Footballer of the Year honours.
It is the connection he built up with supporters during almost a decade on Merseyside that Salah will cherish most, though.
“It means to me everything,” the Egyptian says in the new LFC Original film Salah: Farewell to the King, available to watch on YouTube and All Red Video from 5pm BST today.
“You live in the club, you feel the love and appreciation from the fans. This is the most important thing, people appreciate what you have done and appreciate everything you’ve done for them and for yourself.
“So, this is the most important thing.
“It feels special. I’m blessed. Not too many people had the opportunity to play here nine years and perform how I performed or just enjoy or go through the process that I’ve been through.
“So, it’s a blessing and something I don’t take for granted.”
As part of a wide-ranging chat at Anfield for the programme, Salah is joined out on the pitch by his two daughters, Makka and Kayan.
Reflecting further on what LFC has come to represent to him and his family, the No.11 states: “Everything. Like, literally everything.
“The club means everything. The people mean everything, the city means everything. I will always love this club. I will always support it.
“My kids will always support it and even when I talk to them now, I tell them like, we’re leaving Liverpool, they say, ‘Well, we’re going to support the club even when you leave.’
“I say, ‘We’re not going to support my new club?’ They say, ‘No, we love Liverpool. We’re going to support Liverpool. We’re not going to support anything else.’
“I say, ‘OK, fine.’”
At the end of the debut 2017-18 season in which Salah had captured Kopites’ hearts by racking up 44 goals, a young Makka stole the show on the final day at Anfield.
As players and their families took to the pitch for a lap of appreciation inside the stadium, she was roared on by fans as she dribbled to the Kop net and hit the target like her dad.
“When I won the Golden Boot, I was taking a picture and going inside,” Salah recalls. “Then Makka grabbed the ball and scored a goal in front of the Kop.
“It was just such a special moment for me and I’m sure for her.
“She is grown up now and she will look back in the future also to reflect on the love she saw from the people and the appreciation.
“It’s something very special as a father to see it, to be proud of seeing my daughter scoring goals here. I was telling [Hugo] Ekitike before he scored that my daughter scored more goals than you!
“It’s something very special for me as a father to see the love from the fans, and it’s also appreciation for what I have done probably.”
- Watch Salah: Farewell to the King on YouTube and All Red Video from 5pm BST today