Mohamed Salah‘s future at Liverpool stays unsure, however he’s leaving little doubt over what he gives the group having been concerned in 66.7 p.c of all league targets this season.
In what’s his eighth marketing campaign at Liverpool, Salah has already reached double figures for targets and assists throughout all competitions for the seventh time at Anfield.
He has became fairly the one-season surprise, eh?
Eleven video games into the Premier League season, Salah has contributed eight targets and 6 assists for a mixed whole of 14 objective contributions.
It’s the most throughout the division, and it accounts for 66.7 p.c of Liverpool’s tally within the competitors, with 21 targets scored by Arne Slot‘s facet.
Luis Diaz is subsequent finest with seven objective contributions, with Diogo Jota (4) and Darwin Nunez (three) following shut behind.
- Liverpool’s Premier League targets: 21
- Salah league targets and assists: 14
If we broaden the scope throughout all competitions, Salah has performed a job in 20 of Liverpool’s 39 targets throughout the league, Champions League and League Cup up to now.
That quantities to a contribution of 51.2 p.c from the No. 11, a determine which additionally underlines his continued significance to the Reds’ assault.
Diaz, once more, is closest to Salah within the rankings, however he has 11 objective contributions in whole.
With contract discussions nonetheless ongoing, Salah is leaving no doubts over his type and trajectory, even when he’s 32. These numbers usually are not simply changed.
- Liverpool’s whole targets: 39
- Salah’s whole targets and assists: 20
Contract newest
We’re all determined for optimistic progress on contract talks, and the newest replace from the Athletic’s James Pearce is that “Liverpool need to preserve Salah and the participant is eager on staying put.”
If solely it have been that easy, although!
A compromise will nonetheless should be struck on the wage, bonus construction and the size of the contract, however there may be, a minimum of, widespread floor to work on.
Frustration will proceed to linger the longer this drags on, as it can for Trent Alexander-Arnold and Virgil van Dijk‘s offers, however Salah’s hand is simply rising stronger by the day.
