Nine seasons, 435 games, and 255 goals. An FA Cup, Community Shield, Super Cup, and Club World Cup. A Champions League title and two more finals. A pair of Premier League titles. And the chance just maybe for a little bit more before everything is said and done.
Though now, sadly, we know everything will be said and done soon.
We suspected it before, perhaps. But now we know. That the 2025-26 season will be Mohamed Salah’s final season at Liverpool Football Club, the 33-year-old Egyptian announcing he will move on in the summer.
He will end his career as a Red by any measure as one of the tiny handful of players in contention to be called the best attacker of the Premier League era at any club, the league’s top scorer on four occasions and its top assist-getting twice. Player of the season on three occasions.
Holder of more than 20 club league records including being the league’s highest scoring foreign-born player of all time, having the most goal involvements in a 38-game season, and scoring more opening day goals—at nine, one for every season—in league history.
Having signed from Roma in 2017 for just £36.5m, he leaves with the only question being where he sits near the top of Liverpool’s pantheon of greats, with most content to argue whether it is Salah, Steven Gerrard, or Kenny Dalglish at the very pinnacle of that list.
There has been no more important Liverpool forward going back more than three decades now. The only other Premier League forwards who can even make a case for having done more—or even just a similar amount—with their time are Arsenal legend Thierry Henry and Newcastle legend Alan Shearer. He is the greatest African player in the history of the Premier League—the greatest African player of all time, full stop.
Others may have had stellar peaks, a season or two of excellence, but Salah for a time felt timeless. For eight long years he was simply and inarguably the best. At times, it felt as though his reign might never end.
In the end, of course, all things do.
These next two months will be the end of it, then. Mohamed Salah’s final games and weeks as a Liverpool player. We were fortunate to get to watch him every week for as long as we did. We will be fortunate as Liverpool fans to ever see his like again.
Goodbye, Mo. Thank you for everything.
