But Salah is more than just a goalscorer.
He is well clear in assists too with 16 – six more than anyone else in the Premier League and five more than Barcelona’s Lamine Yamal, who is next across Europe’s big five leagues.
Salah has 11 games to break the single-season Premier League assists record of 20 shared by Henry in 2002-03 and Manchester City’s Kevin de Bruyne in 2019-20.
When you combine goals with assists, Salah has 41 goal contributions. The Premier League record is 47 – shared by Blackburn’s Alan Shearer and Andrew Cole at Newcastle, although they did that in 42-match campaigns.
In a 38-game season, the best is 44 by Haaland two years ago (36 goals, eight assists) and Henry in 2002-03 (24 goals, 20 assists).
Since 2006-07 only four players in England, Spain, Italy, Germany or France have reached 50 goal contributions in a single season: Barcelona’s Lionel Messi and Real Madrid’s Cristiano Ronaldo (three), Barcelona’s Luis Suarez (one) and Paris St-Germain’s Zlatan Ibrahimovic (one).
Messi’s best league total came in an incredible 2011-12 season with 66 goal contributions (50 goals and 16 assists).
Salah has scored and assisted a goal in 49 league matches in his career in Europe’s big five leagues.
Since Opta has recorded data (from 2006-07), only Messi (102) and Ronaldo (65) have scored and assisted more often.
