Salah signs new Liverpool deal The data

Salah signs new Liverpool deal The data

Mohamed Salah committed his long-term future to Liverpool on Friday by signing a new three-year deal.The Egypt international was due to Marcus Semien Jersey be out of contract at the end of the upcoming season, leading to strong links with a move away from Anfield.However, out of the blue, Salah has penned an extension to temporarily, at least bring an end to speculation over his future.After losing Sadio Mane to Bayern Munich, albeit with Darwin Nunez signed as a replacement of sorts, tying down Salah is a major boost for Liverpool ahead of the new season.Here, Stats Perform looks at just how important Salah has been for Liverpool over the past five years, and how his record compares to Europes other elite attackers. ALREADY AMONG LIVERPOOL GREATSIt is Glenn Hubbard Jersey difficult to remember now, but Salahs arrival from Roma in a deal rising to 43million raised more than a few eyebrows due to his disappointing earlier spell with Chelsea.Six major honours later, including one as a key part in the clubs first Premier League title triumph, and Salah will go down as one of Liverpools all-time greats.The 30-year-old has made 254 appearances for the Reds in total, 235 of those being starts, and has scored 156 goals while a sisting 58 more.Those 156 goals rank him ninth on the list of Liverpools record scorers, with considerablegroundto make up on Ian Rush at the top of that list with 346 goals.CLOSING IN ON GERRARD RECORDSalah might struggle to overhaul Rush, but he will also have another record in his sights when the 2022-23 campaign gets up and running next month.With 164 direct goal involvements in the Premier League, Salah trailsonly Steven Gerrard (212) among Reds players in the competition in that regard.Indeed, only two players from Europes top five leagues have scored and a sisted more goals acro s the same period Robert Lewandowski (184) and Lionel Me si (200).Kylian Mbappe, seen by many as the most desirable player in world football, is fourth on that list on 163 goal involvements, while Ciro Immobile is fifth with 159.PREMIER LEAGUE PEDIGREESalah Kendall Graveman Jersey has scored 118 goals for Liverpool in the Premier League alone, which is 13 more than next-best Harry Kaneamong all clubs since the start of the 2017-18 season.Those strikes have helped Salah to three Golden Boot awards only Arsenal legend Thierry Henry (4) has finished top of the competitions scoring charts more often.The former Basel forward also ranks top for minutesper goalamong those to have played at Reggie Jackson Jersey least 100 times (126 minutes per goal), shots (678) and touches in the opposition box (1,575).However, one metric he does not lead is a sists, with Manchester Citys Kevin De Bruyne boasting 58 to Salahs 46.MORE TO COME FROM MOSalahs output has been consistent acro s his five years at Anfield, starting between 45 and 49 games a season and registering double figures for a sists in all but one of those campaigns.He has remained a prolific scorer throughout, with a high of 44 goals in the 2017-18 season and a low but still respectable 23 in the 2019-20 campaign. The latterwas the Oakland Athletics Custom Jersey season when Liverpool won the Premier League.The Al Mokawloon youth product has managed 31 goals in each of the past two seasons, while the 15 a sists registered last season was a career-high.All that suggests Salah is far from finished on Merseyside, and with a new three-year deal signed, Liverpool fans have plenty more to look forward to from their Egyptian king.

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