When Liverpool\u2019s recruitment team handed J\u00fcrgen Klopp hours of footage in the summer of 2017, his early assessment of Mohamed Salah was cautious. Klopp\u2019s initial view painted him as an interesting winger but definitely \u201cnot the finishing monster.\u201d That view would be transformed by what followed on the pitch.<\/p>\n
Across all competitions, 56 different opponents have been on the receiving end of Salah\u2019s goals for Liverpool. The scale of that achievement is best understood alongside the figures he produced in the 2024-25 season.<\/p>\n
After securing his second Premier League title with a 5\u20131 win over Tottenham Hotspur in April 2025, Salah offered a succinct response to critics and admirers alike: \u201cYou can see the numbers.\u201d The numbers that season were remarkable. Salah became just the third player in Premier League history to finish as the outright leading scorer and assist provider in the same campaign, racking up 29 goals and 18 assists.<\/p>\n
Those returns meant Salah directly contributed to 47 top-flight goals in 2024-25, which the draft notes is more than Manchester United managed as a team (44). The contrast underlines the individual influence he exerted through that campaign.<\/p>\n
Manchester United also emerge repeatedly in the statistical narrative of Salah\u2019s career. No team had conceded more goals at his feet than the Red Devils, and across the decade of the 2020s thus far Salah ranks as the eighth highest Premier League goalscorer at Old Trafford\u2014including Manchester United players, as pointed out by The Athletic\u2019s Duncan Alexander.<\/p>\n
Numbers do not capture every subtlety of a player\u2019s craft, but in Salah\u2019s case the statistics trace a clear arc: a scouting report in 2017, sustained excellence, and a 2024-25 season that crystallised his value to Liverpool.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Salah has scored against 56 opponents for Liverpool; 2024-25 produced 29 goals and 18 assists. 2025.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":9765,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[230,175],"tags":[1162,1536],"class_list":["post-9766","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-analytics-stats","category-liverpool","tag-analytics","tag-champions-league-goals"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.weplayfpl.com\/news-articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9766","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.weplayfpl.com\/news-articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.weplayfpl.com\/news-articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.weplayfpl.com\/news-articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.weplayfpl.com\/news-articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9766"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.weplayfpl.com\/news-articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9766\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.weplayfpl.com\/news-articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/9765"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.weplayfpl.com\/news-articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9766"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.weplayfpl.com\/news-articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9766"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.weplayfpl.com\/news-articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9766"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}