Salah's Liverpool Decade: The Numbers Behind Egypt's Biggest Football Export
Mohamed Salah's move to Liverpool in 2017 turned into the defining transfer of his career, and by extension one of the defining football stories to come out of Egypt in the past decade. According to SportsGrid, Salah has since won two Premier League titles, a UEFA Champions League trophy, and the FIFA Club World Cup with the club, and has been named the club's Player of the Year three times, most recently in 2025 after Liverpool's Premier League title win.
His path to Anfield started far from England. Salah left El Mokawloon for Basel in 2012, a move that came as the Egyptian Premier League was suspended following the Port Said Stadium disaster. From there his career took a winding route through Europe: limited game time at Chelsea under José Mourinho, a loan to Fiorentina, a move to Roma, and eventually the transfer that made him a Liverpool mainstay. That spell in Serie A with Roma is what convinced Liverpool to sign him.
At club level, the numbers now speak for themselves. SportsGrid reports that Salah sits third on Liverpool's all-time goalscoring list, closing in on the club records held by Roger Hunt and Ian Rush.
The picture changes at international level. Salah's Egypt career has not matched his club form, marked by a difficult 2018 World Cup campaign and a run of frustrating Africa Cup of Nations tournaments. It's the one gap in an otherwise decorated résumé, and it's part of why his story resonates the way it does across the continent: a player who became one of the biggest individual stars in world football while carrying the weight of a national team that hasn't yet delivered the trophy Egyptians want most.
That gap hasn't dented how he's viewed at home. Salah remains one of the most recognisable faces in African football, and his rise from a suspended domestic league in 2012 to a top-three spot in Liverpool's scoring charts is still the reference point for what's possible for a player coming out of Egypt.
