Mohammed Salah enters fully into the history of Liverpool
Liverpool is one of the most important football clubs in the world. The English team has a great history and is one of the most revered teams in the UK and beyond, with millions of fans all over the world.
It is not easy to enter the history of this legendary club with so many triumphs achieved since its foundation in 1892 and so many legendary players and coaches.
There are several names of footballers and coaches who have gone down in history in golden letters for Liverpool, which has won 19 league titles, 8 cup titles and 6 European Cups, in this last category tied with Bayern Munich and only surpassed by Milan with 7 and Real Madrid with 15.
The stands of Anfield Road, Liverpool's legendary stadium, have seen the triumph of names such as Bill Shankly, the great coach of the sixties and seventies of the last century, Bob Paisley, the iconic coach who took Liverpool to the top of Europe in the seventies and eighties, Rafa Benítez, the coach who restored the club's European lustre in 2005, Jurgen Klopp, who made the club European champions again in 2019, and players of great international stature and quality such as Gordon Hodgson, Roger Hunt, Kevin Keegan, Kenny Dalglish, Ian Rush, Steven Gerrard, Graeme Souness, John Barnes, Xabi Alonso, Sadio Mane, etc.….
One of those big names who has been on the list of the best players in Liverpool's history for some time is the Egyptian Mohammed Salah. Considered by many to be the best African player today, Salah has been giving a great performance to the ‘red’ team for years and helping the club to continue winning titles, and now he has entered fully into the Olympus of Anfield by becoming the club's third highest all-time goalscorer.
After his goal against Manchester City in the last round of the English Premier League, the Egyptian international has scored 241 goals for Liverpool, equalling the figure of Englishman Gordon Hodgson, who achieved this figure between 1926 and 1935, and placing himself just behind the Welshman Ian Rush, who scored 346 goals in his career with Liverpool between 1980 and 1987 and 1988 and 1996, and the Englishman Roger Hunt, with 285, scored between 1958 and 1969.
Mohammed Salah has scored these 241 goals in 387 matches for Liverpool since joining the English team in 2017 from Roma.
Liverpool's number 11 has scored 180 times in the Premier League for the Reds, 45 goals in the Champions League, six in the English Cup, five in the Europa League, four in the English League Cup and one in the Community Shield.
The goal against Manchester City that placed him on the podium of Liverpool's goalscorers was the second of the match that confirmed the victory of the Merseyside team against the current English champions, which places the Anfield team as the most outstanding leader of the English Premier League, confirming a privileged position that will surely help the team led by Dutchman Arne Slot win the league competition, something Liverpool have not achieved since 2020.
Mohammed Salah has scored 25 goals and provided 16 assists this season. He is 11 goals away from the Premier League record of the Norwegian Erling Haaland, a Manchester City player, and five assists away from the record of 21 in a season held by the Belgian Kevin de Bruyne, also a Manchester City player.
The season could be perfect for the Egyptian striker as top scorer and assist provider in the English league competition, something only the biggest stars in world football can achieve. In addition to having a more than feasible chance of winning the English league again and winning the Champions League again, as Liverpool were the best team in the group stage in Europe's top competition.
This is in a season that may be the Egyptian international's last, as his contract expires in 2025 and he has not yet renewed with the English team. Salah confirmed his goals for this season after the match against Manchester City: ‘The more experienced players in the team, myself included, need another title. We will do everything we can to achieve it’.
This season could be the best of all of Mohammed Salah's at Liverpool, something to which the African attacker has referred: ‘Some prefer my first season and others the current season. But I think this season is the best because it's about winning the title and doing the best I can and also helping the young players, it's incredible, probably, this season is the best’.
As well as on the pitch, Mohammed Salah is a social role model for the English community and in particular for Anfield fans because he is revered as a symbol of the club and an example of sportsmanship and social values. This is very noteworthy because of the social alliance promoted by this world-class player who is also a role model for the Muslim community, which favours the integration and visibility of Muslims in English society, in which they are very much established.
