Mohamed Salah has signed a new Liverpool contract.
Eight words that the Kop have been dying to hear for months on end, but any lingering fears of the Egyptian king swapping Merseyside for the Middle East have now been laid to rest following Friday's announcement.
Indeed, the Premier League leaders confirmed at 8am that Salah had put pen to paper on a new deal, and the 32-year-old suggested that his renewal will run for another two seasons until the end of the 2026-27 campaign.
Salah will be approaching his 35th birthday by the time his current contract runs out, and leaving after 10 years of service may be the natural end to a golden era, but the former Chelsea and Roma man is far from finished at Anfield.
Here, Sports Mole takes a look at the feats that Salah could still achieve in a Liverpool jersey, and just how high he could progress up various statistical charts.
What Salah could still achieve at Liverpool after new deal confirmed
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First and foremost, Salah could celebrate his new deal with a new Premier League record in just 48 hours' time against West Ham United, as the Egypt international is one goal or assist away from setting a new all-time best for direct involvements in a 38-game season.
The Egypt international has 27 goals and 17 assists in the 2024-25 Premier League for a total of 44 contributions, and no player has ever produced as many as 45 in a single Premier League campaign.
Furthermore, Salah only needs four more combined goals and assists to break the record for the most direct involvements in any Premier League season, as Alan Shearer and Andy Cole previously managed a monumental 47 in 42-game campaigns.
Salah may have failed to score or assist in his last two Premier League games, but with seven matches remaining, it is extremely difficult to envisage the Egyptian not hitting the unrivalled 48 mark, barring an unfortunate injury.
Salah's last Premier League goal also moved him onto a staggering 184 from 294 appearances in the competition, putting him joint-fifth in the all-time charts alongside Sergio Aguero, whom he needs just one more strike to overtake.
Can Salah overtake Harry Kane in Premier League charts?
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The 32-year-old has a goals-to-games ratio of 0.63 in the Premier League, putting him on track to score a whopping 235 if he plays in every top-flight match between now and the end of the 2026-27 season.
In that scenario, Salah would end his Liverpool career as the second-highest Premier League scorer ever, also overtaking Cole (187), Wayne Rooney (208) and Harry Kane (213), but Shearer's unprecedented 260 remains safe.
Also sitting in the top 10 for Premier League assists with 86 all time, Salah would register 110 helpers if he does not miss another Premier League game in the next couple of years, having averaged 0.29 assists every game so far.
That tally would see him surpass James Milner (89), Steven Gerrard (92), David Silva (93), Dennis Bergkamp (94), Frank Lampard (102) and Rooney (103), but Salah would not make the top three, falling just short of Cesc Fabregas's 111 and also trailing Kevin De Bruyne's 118 and Ryan Giggs's 162.
Purely from a Liverpool perspective, Salah is already third on the Reds' all-time scoring list with 243 goals from 394 appearances - a rate of 0.62 per game - and over the last seven full seasons, he has averaged 49.9 matches per campaign.
Whether Salah's body can continue to cope with the demands of a 50-game season remains to be seen, but based on the average, he would end his Liverpool career with 309 goals from 501 appearances.
The winger would therefore overtake Roger Hunt (285) in Liverpool's all-time scoring list, but he will have to accept the silver medal behind Ian Rush's 346, not that it will diminish his status as an all-time Anfield legend.
Ben Knapton
