Mohamed Salah sets incredible Premier League record during Liverpool vs West Ham | Football

Mohamed Salah has written his name into the Premier League history books by registering the most goal involvements in a season since the division slimmed down to 38 games in a campaign.

The Liverpool superstar provided a lovely assist for Luis Diaz to open the scoring against West Ham at Anfield on Sunday afternoon.

That was the Egyptian’s 18th assist of the Premier League season, to go with his 27 goal, taking his goal involvements to 45.

The previous record was shared by Thierry Henry who managed 44 goal involvements for Arsenal in 2002/03 and Erling Haaland who reached the same number for Manchester City in 2022/23.

Salah has plenty of time to surge a long way past that previous record, with six games still to play after this weekend.

There is every chance that the 32-year-old could break the record for a Premier League season, even including the 42-game campaigns.

Andy Cole in 1993/94 and Alan Shearer in 1994/95 both reached 47 goal involvements, but their tally could easily be shattered by the Reds legend.

Cole was with Newcastle United when he managed the record-setting season, with Shearer firing Blackburn to the title as he matched that total.

Salah also has the record for most assists in a Premier League season in his sights, with a very good chance of securing himself another slice of history.

Thierry Henry and Kevin De Bruyne currently share that record with the Arsenal legend registering 20 assists in 2002/03 and the Manchester City icon managing the same in 2019/20.

With Salah up to 18 already, the forward is well placed to get himself ahead of the Frenchman and the Belgian in the assists stakes.

While it is not out of his reach, scoring the most goals in a Premier League season seems far less likely as Salah has a lot of work to do to manage that this campaign.

Haaland has that record, having scored 36 goals in 2022/23, so the Liverpool man would have to have an extremely strong end to the season to beat or match that.

Salah will have two more seasons to come to make more Premier League history after signing a new contract with the Reds.

‘Of course, I’m very excited,’ he said. ‘We have a great team now. Before, also we had a great team. But I signed because I think we have a chance to win other trophies and enjoy my football.

‘It’s great, I had my best years here. I played eight years, hopefully it’s going to be 10. [I’m] enjoying my life here, enjoying my football. I had the best years in my career.

‘I would like to say to [the fans], I am very, very happy to be here. I signed here because I believe we can win a lot of big trophies together. Keep supporting us and we’ll give it our best, and hopefully in the future we’re going to win more trophies.’

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