After nine seasons of glory, Mohamed Salah has played his final game for Liverpool Football Club. He departs as the club’s top scorer of the Premier League era as well as now holding the record for assists, with his pass to set up Curtis Jones in his final Liverpool game taking him past Steven Gerrard with it writing his name one more time into the record books.
Because there’s only one Mo Salah. One player who in his time at Liverpool seemed to set a new record in every match and with every passing
week. One player who won every major trophy on offer. One player who, with 47 goals and assists in 2024-25, set the record for most goal involvements in a single season as he carried the Reds to a second Premier League title in his time at the club.
The first player in Premier League history to lead the league in both goals and assists in multiple seasons. The only player in Liverpool history to score 20 or more goals in eight consecutive seasons. The club’s top foreign scorer and third top scorer overall behind only Ian Rush and Roger Hunt.
One of the first signings who helped define the Jürgen Klopp era. Nearly the last now to leave the club as he departs alongside Andy Robertson after nine years of wonder. Still, as was the case in his final game for the club on Sunday, the player who makes Liverpool’s attack click more than any other, even when the passing of the years means he’s not quite at his all-time best.
He is, by any measure or metric, one of Liverpool’s greatest players of all time. For a club like Liverpool, though, he isn’t the only all-time great. There’s Gerrard, of course. Top scorers Rush and Hunt. There’s Kenny Dalglish. In defence there’s Alan Hansen and long-time Salah teammate Virgil van Dijk.
There will be other more personal favourites. Most, one imagines, will have Salah top three along with Gerrard and Dalglish. There’s a case, given what he’s won and his record, that he deserves to at least ahead of one of them. Or there’s a case he should be a bit further back, perhaps slotted behind all-time scoring leader Rush as well. And there’s always the question of how to compare forwards to defenders.
In a club with the history of Liverpool, simply being in that conversation makes you not just an all-time great of the club. It makes you an all-time great of football. Wherever he goes next in his career, Salah leaves as one of the greats. We were lucky to get the chance to watch him; privileged to see him set the records he did and lift so many trophies.
Still, we can’t help but be little curious where exactly Liverpool fans would put the club’s latest departing legend in that all-time list, whether it’s first, second, or third. Or top five. Or just outside in the top ten. All of us have our thoughts, and we’d like to know yours.
