Comment: Mo Salah could go down as Liverpool’s greatest player of all time
KING OF LIVERPOOL?: Liverpool's Mohamed Salah celebrates scoring at the Etihad Stadium, Manchester. 2025.
Mo Salah’s next-level statistics are behind Liverpool’s outstanding season and, following yet another starring role in a crucial victory at Manchester City, there isn’t an accolade that appears out of reach for the mercurial Egyptian.
With Liverpool 11 points clear at the top of the table, Salah is surely on target for his second Premier League trophy and his fourth Golden Boot, having hit 25 goals and provided 16 assists already this campaign.
He was imperious at the Etihad in a highly efficient and confident Liverpool performance at the home of the reigning champions, once again setting a high bar for quality - including a goal and an assist.
Maybe, given the success of Erling Haaland over the last two years, we temporarily forgot just how good the Liverpool man is. But everyone is certainly remembering now as Liverpool march towards a title triumph, with Arsenal waning and City long gone.
Haaland, who has lifted the Golden Boot for the last two years, was left out of Pep Guardiola's squad at the Etihad, and is now six goals and 13 assists behind his rival, who continues to astonish at the age of 32.
Salah, perhaps in the form of his life, opened the scoring with a first time shot at the Etihad and then delivered an assist for Dominik Szoboszlai, with a wonderful piece of control and a simple lay-off for his teammate.
But it was his all-round display which really put Liverpool in control, providing a constant stream of quality that City couldn't match - and even a defensive edge when it was required.
With Liverpool closing in on another title, this is a good time to take a closer look at the winger’s numbers across his entire Anfield career, especially at a time when, astonishingly, Liverpool still haven’t yet tied him to a new contract - and risk losing him on a free transfer in June.
The idea of Salah departing Anfield after such a stunning campaign is almost unfathomable, given his form and influence at the club, at a time when Arne Slot looks on course to build a new era of success.
The Egyptian now has 241 goals in all competitions, placing him joint third on the club’s all-time list, alongside Gordon Hodgson, with only Roger Hunt and Ian Rush ahead of him.
That total includes 182 goals in the Premier League, leaving him fifth in the competition’s all-time list (just two shy of Sergio Aguero above him), with an opportunity this season to create more history.
He needs only five more assists to break the Premier League's single-season assist record - and eight goals or assists to surpass Andy Cole and Alan Shearer for the most goal involvements in a top-flight campaign.
Even if he does say goodbye this summer, Salah must surely rank highly in the list of Liverpool’s greatest players of all time - and finishing top of that pile one day is not an impossible dream.
There are so many Anfield legends, not least from the glory years of the 1970s-1990s, players ranging from Ian Rush to Kenny Dalglish, Kevin Keegan to Graeme Souness, Alan Hansen to Tommy Smith, Roger Hunt to Emlyn Hughes, Phil Thompson to Ray Clemence.
That’s before you even get to modern heroes such as Steven Gerrard, Jamie Carragher, Robbie Fowler, Michael Owen and Luis Suarez.
But Salah, if he can be persuaded to stay, must surely know there is no limit to where he could end up in the Liverpool story.
He is currently 125 goals short of all-time top scorer Rush, who scored his 346 goals across two spells (encompassing 660 games) in the 1980s and 90s.
It sounds a lot but, given that Salah has topped 30 goals five times in the last eight campaigns, including this season with three months still to go, is adding another 107 completely unachievable at the age of 32?
After all, Rush was close to his 35th birthday by the time he moved to Leeds in 1996.
With so much history at stake, so many trophies and accolades on the table waiting for him, there is a big decision ahead for Salah at the end of this impressive season.
The Greatest Of All Time? Well, why not?
It’s in Mo’s hands – if only Liverpool could find a pen for him to hold.
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