After Mohamed Salah signed a new two-year contract to extend his stay at Liverpool, Opta Analyst's David Segar looks at the records the Egyptian holds and the ones he could break.
For the next two years at least, the Egyptian King will remain on his throne.
The man who said he was “more out than in” in November is now 100 per cent in after it was announced Mohamed Salah will be staying at Liverpool beyond this season.
The club confirmed on Friday morning that Salah has signed a new contract, which is great news for Reds fans - and terrible news for Premier League defenders.
Salah has won almost everything at Liverpool, with a Premier League title to his name, and another surely to follow over the next few weeks, as well as a UEFA Champions League, FA Cup, two EFL Cups, a UEFA Super Cup and FIFA Club World Cup.
And he is hungry for more. Upon signing his new deal, Salah told the club’s official website: “Of course, I’m very excited. We have a great team now. Before, also we had a great team. But I signed because I think we have a chance to win other trophies and enjoy my football.
“It’s great, I had my best years here. I played eight years, hopefully it’s going to be 10. [I’m] enjoying my life here, enjoying my football. I had the best years in my career.
“I would like to say to [the fans], I am very, very happy to be here. I signed here because I believe we can win a lot of big trophies together. Keep supporting us and we’ll give it our best, and hopefully in the future we’re going to win more trophies.”
Liverpool head coach Arne Slot was understandably beaming at his press conference on Friday ahead of Sunday’s Premier League match at home to West Ham United.
Slot said: “I’m happy, of course. He’s shown at this club for so many years in a row now how much value he has for the team and for the club.
"So, as like I assume all our fans and his team-mates, we are very happy that he extended for two more years and hopefully he can show on Sunday again how important he has been for the whole season to us.”
There had been fears that Salah, Virgil van Dijk and Trent Alexander-Arnold would all head out of the exit door, with their contracts expiring at the end of the campaign, but the Reds now know that at least the Egyptian will be around next season.
The impact he’s already had has been phenomenal, but with another two-and-a-bit years to torment Premier League defences, his legacy will surely only become even greater.
His achievements, the player he’s become; these shouldn’t be downplayed, as few would have predicted him ultimately reaching the levels he has – and so consistently – for the Reds.
After all, when Liverpool brought Salah back to the Premier League following his unremarkable time at Chelsea, some eyebrows were raised. He had struggled to establish himself at Stamford Bridge after his move from Basel in 2014, scoring just four times in 27 appearances, and 15 starts, for the Blues in all competitions.
However, he impressed in a short loan spell at Fiorentina in Serie A, before a permanent move to Roma saw Salah become one of the most exciting wingers in European football. Liverpool, who had reportedly tried to sign the player before he went to Chelsea, finally got their man three years later, and the timing was arguably perfect.
He hit the ground running and scored 44 goals in 52 games in his first season back in England, and he’s not looked back since.
Salah has made 394 appearances for Liverpool in all competitions since arriving in 2017, 360 of which have been starts. He’s scored 243 goals, with a further 109 assists, averaging a goal involvement every 91 minutes, a mightily impressive record over such a number of games.
His 243 goals for the Reds are made up of 182 in the Premier League, 45 in the Champions League, five in the Europa League, six in the FA Cup, four in the EFL Cup and one in the Community Shield.
Salah also has three Premier League Golden Boots to his name, which is likely to become four this season. After all, he has 27 league goals in 2024/25, at least six more than anyone else, with closest rival Erling Haaland currently absent with an ankle injury.
His last two goals – a pair of penalties in the 3-1 home win over Southampton – saw Salah overtake Gordon Hodgson to go outright third in the all-time scoring charts for Liverpool, only behind Ian Rush (346) and Roger Hunt (285).
By signing this new deal, Salah has given himself a great chance of overtaking Hunt, needing 43 more goals. It would still be a big ask to get past Rush at the summit, albeit there could always be another extension down the line.
He can, though, already boast having the best minutes-per-goal rate of any Liverpool player to have played a minimum of 10,000 minutes. Salah’s average of a goal every 132 minutes is better than Reds icons such as Fernando Torres (135 mins), Luis Suarez (138 mins), Michael Owen (148 mins) and Robbie Fowler (154 mins).
His key asset has not just been his ability to score goals, but his reliability, both in terms of availability and finishing. Salah has never played fewer than 44 games in a season for Liverpool, while his lowest goal tally was a still respectable 23, and that came in the 2019/20 season, when the Reds won the Premier League.
He made over 50 appearances in five of his first seven seasons at Anfield and will make it six from eight if he features in at least six of their remaining seven games this season (currently 45). Similarly, this is already his fifth campaign of scoring at least 30 goals (currently 32).
Salah's stats since signing for Liverpool
| Apps. | Goals | Assists | Goals + assists | Min per goal/assist | |
| 2017/18 | 52 | 44 | 14 | 58 | 71 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2018/19 | 52 | 27 | 10 | 37 | 117 |
| 2019/20 | 48 | 23 | 13 | 36 | 113 |
| 2020/21 | 51 | 31 | 6 | 37 | 113 |
| 2021/22 | 51 | 31 | 15 | 46 | 87 |
| 2022/23 | 51 | 30 | 16 | 46 | 93 |
| 2023/24 | 44 | 25 | 13 | 38 | 82 |
| 2024/25 | 45 | 32 | 22 | 54 | 72 |
And then there’s the fact Salah is a dual threat in attack, a sublime finisher but also a genius creator. This season is already his best creatively for Liverpool, having recorded at least six more assists (22 in all competitions) than any previous campaign and the most of any player in Europe’s top five leagues, ahead of Barcelona’s Raphinha (20), though it’s also worth noting that he’s recorded double figures for league assists in six of his eight campaigns on Merseyside.
The 32-year-old is on a mission to collect all the achievements he can this season. He’s just three goal involvements shy of the Premier League record for a single season, needs four assists to beat Thierry Henry and Kevin De Bruyne’s joint-Premier League record for a single campaign and 10 goals to break Haaland’s record for the most in a season in the competition.
Salah’s numbers in the Premier League in particular have largely been unparalleled. Since he came back in 2017, no other player in England’s top flight has more goals (182), goal involvements (267), open-play assists (76), open-play chances created (481), shots (1,025) or touches in the opposition’s box (2,489).
This season alone, he has already matched the most goal involvements ever in a 38-game Premier League campaign (44). In fact, he is averaging 1.44 goal involvements per 90 minutes in the competition in 2024/25, the most of any player in a single Premier League season (minimum 1,000 minutes played). The former Chelsea man sits joint-fifth in the Premier League’s all-time scoring charts, level with Sergio Aguero on 184 goals. He’s just three behind Andrew Cole (187) in fourth, and zeroing in on becoming just the fourth player to reach 200 Premier League goals, which he now has plenty of time to do.
Even Salah’s lows arguably highlight what a remarkable player he’s been in the Premier League. For example, the fewest goals he’s scored in the league for Liverpool is 18 (2023/24), which is a total only 15 players (other than himself) have bettered since 2017.
He is in fifth place for Premier League goal involvements (270), but it should be noted that he’s played at least 147 games fewer than any of the four players above him. Two more goals or assists will see him go above Ryan Giggs (271), while 10 will see him leapfrog Frank Lampard (279).
Most Premier League goals and assists
| Apps | Goals + assists | |
| Alan Shearer | 441 | 324 |
|---|---|---|
| Wayne Rooney | 491 | 311 |
| Frank Lampard | 609 | 279 |
| Ryan Giggs | 632 | 271 |
| Mohamed Salah | 294 | 270 |
| Andrew Cole | 414 | 260 |
| Harry Kane | 320 | 259 |
| Thierry Henry | 258 | 249 |
| Sergio Aguero | 275 | 231 |
| Teddy Sheringham | 418 | 221 |
Barring injury or suspension, Salah should reach 400 appearances for Liverpool before the end of the season, while he also has plenty of other numbers to add to in the next seven games – and the two seasons beyond that.
His 243 goals are made up of 199 with his trusty left foot, 35 with his right, and nine with his head; 229 have come from inside the penalty area and 14 from outside; 44 have been from the penalty spot; 64 have been opening goals; 68 have been winning goals; 132 have come at Anfield, 108 in away games, two on neutral soil and one in a game that was classified as "home" but took place in Budapest (v RB Leipzig in the Champions League) in the 2019/20 season due to the COVID-19 pandemic.
Fittingly, the team Salah has found the net against most in a Liverpool shirt is Manchester United. His 16 goals against the Merseyside club’s old enemy is three more than he has against anyone else, with 13 put past each of Manchester City, Tottenham Hotspur and West Ham.
But of course, Salah would be the first person to highlight that his exceptional Liverpool career isn’t simply a reflection of his own quality. He’s had plenty of help along the way; for instance, Roberto Firmino laid on the final pass for 21 of the Egyptian’s goals, more than any other team-mate.
Meanwhile, the other member of Liverpool’s famous front three during the Jurgen Klopp era, Sadio Mane, has been the beneficiary of more Salah assists than anyone else, with 17 of the Senegalese forward’s Liverpool goals being set up by him.
While Liverpool will still be smarting from their Champions League exit at the hands of Paris Saint-Germain and their EFL Cup final defeat to Newcastle United, they still have an 11-point lead at the top of the Premier League with seven games remaining, so Slot’s first season will still likely end with a big celebration.
Liverpool fans will be forgiven for popping the champagne corks early upon hearing the news of Salah’s extension, though, and the Kop can look forward to more opportunities to chant their appreciation for the Egyptian King.
For the rest of the Premier League, though, to somewhat paraphrase the great philosopher, the Notorious B.I.G, it looks like it’ll be Mo' Salah, mo’ problems.
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