Mohamed Salah’s Liverpool era ends, legacy of goals and trophies endures
Mohamed Salah leaves Liverpool after nine seasons, with 257 goals, two league titles and a reach that stretched far beyond Anfield.
Liverpool has closed the book on Mohamed Salah’s nine-year run, confirming on 24 March 2026 that the forward would leave at the end of the 2025-26 season. The move ends a chapter that began on 22 June 2017, when Liverpool signed Salah from Roma in a club-record deal initially worth £37 million and potentially rising to £43 million.
Salah’s numbers explain why his departure lands as more than a routine transfer exit. He has scored 257 goals in 441 matches for Liverpool, while the Premier League lists him with 327 league appearances, 193 goals and 93 assists. The league says he is Liverpool’s all-time top scorer in Premier League matches and credits him with helping deliver two Premier League titles, the UEFA Champions League and the FIFA Club World Cup.
The scale of that return has put Salah in the same conversation as Liverpool icons such as Ian Rush and Steven Gerrard, but the comparison only tells part of the story. Salah arrived at Anfield after a difficult earlier spell at Chelsea, where he scored two goals in 13 Premier League appearances, and rebuilt his career into one of the defining runs in modern English football. What followed was not just output on the pitch but a player who became central to Liverpool’s identity, one whose profile resonated from Merseyside into Egypt and across wider football audiences.
That wider impact has been part of the farewell narrative. The Athletic said Salah helped “lift so many barriers in Liverpool” because of his Muslim identity and Egyptian background, a measure of how his presence altered the club’s connection to supporters far beyond the usual measures of goals and medals. For Liverpool, replacing Salah will mean finding production, but also influence, recognition and reach.
His last day at Anfield was expected to come against Brentford in the Premier League season finale on Sunday, 25 May 2026, although Arne Slot did not commit to Salah playing. However it ends, Liverpool leaves behind a forward whose era was defined by trophies, records and a place in the club’s modern image that few players have ever matched.
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