{"id":600927,"date":"2026-05-24T04:59:17","date_gmt":"2026-05-24T04:59:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/600927\/"},"modified":"2026-05-24T04:59:17","modified_gmt":"2026-05-24T04:59:17","slug":"farewell-to-mohamed-salah-liverpools-egyptian-king-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/600927\/","title":{"rendered":"Farewell to Mohamed Salah, Liverpool’s ‘Egyptian king’"},"content":{"rendered":"

Perhaps the fullest realisation of what Mohamed Salah has achieved at Liverpool<\/a> will only come with time.<\/p>\n

But as he prepares to say his goodbyes on Sunday, there is plenty to appreciate and admire in the here and now.<\/p>\n

There are the standards Salah helped to set that emanated through the club in his and Liverpool<\/a>‘s quest for greatness.<\/p>\n

Then there are the records he broke and the trophies his goals brought to Anfield.<\/p>\n

Above all, there is the sheer joy he brought and the memories he provided.<\/p>\n

“He [Salah] set completely new standards for a professional football player – how hard you can work, how much you can invest in recovery and everything,” Jurgen Klopp told BBC Sport<\/a> in March.<\/p>\n

Klopp was the manager when Liverpool<\/a> signed the Egyptian from Roma in 2017 for \u00a334m.<\/p>\n

The deal was questioned because of Salah’s previous struggles with Chelsea<\/a> in the Premier League, but those who scouted him for Liverpool<\/a> were convinced.<\/p>\n

Yet even they – the scouts, Klopp, everyone involved – could not have anticipated how Salah would become an all-time great.<\/p>\n

His haul of 257 goals for Liverpool<\/a> has pushed him past the likes of Sir Kenny Dalglish, Robbie Fowler, Michael Owen and Steven Gerrard. Only Ian Rush (346) and Roger Hunt (285) have scored more.<\/p>\n

“Mohamed knew what he had to do to become a Liverpool<\/a> legend and he took it to a different level,” Rush told BBC Sport.<\/p>\n

“He couldn’t believe how many goals I scored. so he actually said to me: ‘Did you count your goals in training?’<\/p>\n

“So he’s got that Scouse sense of humour as well. But it’s not just goals; you look at the number of assists and he’s a complete footballer.”<\/p>\n

For the record, there have been 119 assists.<\/p>\n

Salah’s average of a goal or an assist every 94 minutes for Liverpool<\/a> is astonishing. That’s 376 goal involvements in 35,326 minutes of football.<\/p>\n

These are remarkable feats by the man who began his journey in Nagrig, a village in rural Egypt, and became one of the greatest players for one of the world’s greatest football clubs.<\/p>\n

Salah sat on a throne inside Anfield last year – the club’s ‘Egyptian king’ had committed to extending his reign and marked the occasion in regal style. But now his abdication moment has arrived, a year earlier than planned.<\/a><\/p>\n

It is not clear for which club or in which country Salah will play next season.<\/p>\n

Brentford<\/a> at home marks the final page in the defining chapter of his footballing life. What a life.<\/p>\n

The self-aware Salah appreciates his superstar status, and revels in what he stands for in both the footballing world and the Arabic world.<\/p>\n

But he also knows how hard he has worked to reach that status.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Perhaps the fullest realisation of what Mohamed Salah has achieved at Liverpool will only come with time. But…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":600492,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[33],"tags":[218,101,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-600927","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-football","tag-football","tag-sports","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/600927","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=600927"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/600927\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/600492"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=600927"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=600927"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=600927"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}