Mo Salah

[danperkins]

Fair play to Mo, trophy cabinet packed

[peterbread]

Mo Salah is the first player in the competition’s history to win the PL Player of the Season, the PL Golden Boot and the PL Playmaker award in the same season. He's also equalled the record the most goal involvements ever recorded in a Premier League campaign.

[Assassin]

Mo Salah is the first player in the competition’s history to win the PL Player of the Season, the PL Golden Boot and the PL Playmaker award in the same season. He's also equalled the record the most goal involvements ever recorded in a Premier League campaign.

In a 38 game season verses 42 game season

[Buzzo]

What a haul.

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[peterbread]

Selfish Mo as usual, hogging it all for himself.

[DerKrampus]

Truly one of ours and the PLs best ever players.

[Yozza]

Duplicate

[rudedog]

Duplicate

If only we could !

[Buzzo]

A staggering season. This from the OPTA team of the season. Absolute will power and drive to get us to #20. Will not forget those weeks from Sept to Jan where he was guaranteeing a G and an A, helping to build us a lead that never came under any threat.

Possibly the easiest choice of all time for a player's inclusion in a statistical team of the season, Salah enjoyed one of the finest individual seasons in Premier League history. Many of his astonishing records from 24-25 may not be beaten for many years.

The Egyptian was involved in 47 Premier League goals (29 goals, 18 assists), a record in a 38-game campaign to overtake the 44 goal and assist seasons of Thierry Henry in 2002-03 and Erling Haaland in 2022-23.

Including 42-game seasons, Andrew Cole and Alan Shearer had 34 goals and 13 assists in 93-94 and 94-95 respectively, which Salah matched with his equaliser against Crystal Palace on the final day.

With these goals and assists totals, it's little surprise that Salah topped the charts outright for both metrics in 24-25, only the third time a player has achieved that, along with Cole in 93-94 and Harry Kane in 20-21.

Salah scored and assisted in 11 different Premier League games this season, four more than any other player has done so in a season. Across Europe's big five leagues, it was the most since Lionel Messi did so 11 times in 14-15 for Barcelona.

Sixteen of Salah's 29 Premier League goals were scored away from home, a joint record, while he also added 11 away assists, again a joint record.
Salah's 27 is the most goals and assists combined away from home in one season.

Although Salah did not beat topple the all-time assist record in a season of 20, all 18 of his assists came from open play - that's the second most behind Thierry Henry in 02-03 (20).
Salah was also the Premier League's most creative player in open play, making 86 chances and most big chances (27) for his team-mates. Salah had the most shots (130), registered the best xG (25.4) and had the most touches in the opposition box (394).

[Irishnev]

A staggering season. This from the OPTA team of the season. Absolute will power and drive to get us to #20. Will not forget those weeks where he was guaranteeing a G and an A.

I read somewhere that the last 17 big chances he created were missed. For me, Salah is the best all round attacker of the Premier League era….. even better than Henry. Salah is pure output and lacks the “aesthetic beauty” or elegance that Henry had so he gets overlooked by so many….including our own fans.

It would have been brilliant for him to get a 30/20 season but the 4 game streak after it was won shows the how much the need to win becomes a real factor in performance.

Knowing Salah, he will think he can beat it next season!

[peterbread]

With the potential signing of Wirtz and a striker I wonder what type of output he could get. Wirtz could set him up and a proper clinical finisher will finish off the ones he creates.

[Norbs]

With the potential signing of Wirtz and a striker I wonder what type of output he could get. Wirtz could set him up and a proper clinical finisher will finish off the ones he creates.

Yeah, so where does Salah fit in with all this?

[peterbread]

Haha yeah maybe misspoke there I was thinking more about a forward rather than Mo. Not a knock on Mo as his is a great finisher it was more about that forward to be on the end of his work and the post above about the last 17 big chances he created and no one finished.

[Buzzo]

I read somewhere that the last 17 big chances he created were missed. For me, Salah is the best all round attacker of the Premier League era….. even better than Henry. Salah is pure output and lacks the “aesthetic beauty” or elegance that Henry had so he gets overlooked by so many….including our own fans.

It would have been brilliant for him to get a 30/20 season but the 4 game streak after it was won shows the how much the need to win becomes a real factor in performance.

Knowing Salah, he will think he can beat it next season!

Agree with this totally. And on his desire which was something to behold. His drive for record numbers has underpinned our success over his time at the club and he will be looking to catch a few more in both club and prem over the next 2 seasons (at least!).

[DerKrampus]

I think his numbers will diminish but not through lack of desire, but more a consequence of having more creative options.