In Jürgen Klopp’s last season, the relationship with his biggest star and goal guarantor, Mo Salah, seemed a little frayed. The Egyptian superstar stayed, accepted a round with Arne Slot, a round that will probably already make Salah historic in the next league round.
The 32-year-old has broken a bunch of records for Liverpool, with six goals to put Salah as the third highest scorer in Premier League history behind Shearer and Kane. What happens in the current season puts Salah on a par with Lionel Messi – and soon beyond.
In 2015, a still-young Lionel Messi set an absolutely wild record in La Liga, cementing the Argentine’s position as both an architect and a finisher, with Messi scoring and assisting 11 times this season in the same match. This record for the five biggest leagues stands ten years later.
On Sunday, Messi had to make room on the throne of Mo Salah.
With an assist and a goal in the Premier League game against Manchester City, Salah has also recorded both goals and assists in the same season for the 11th time.
In the Premier League, Salah made another history on this rainy Sunday in February, no one else in league history has delivered 40+ goals/assists in two seasons.
For Salah, there are 11 league games left in the season to pass the best player in football history, Messi. Everything indicates that it will already happen against Newcastle on Wednesday
