Liverpool know £450m transfer truth after Burnley frustration and Mohamed Salah heroics

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Mohamed Salah of Liverpool, looks on after the team's victory in the Premier League match between Burnley and Liverpool at Turf Moor on September 14, 2025(Image: Liverpool FC/Liverpool FC via Getty Images)

Liverpool have had to turn to somewhat unlikely heroes in each of their three opening games of the Premier League season, but this was a case of the familiar as Mohamed Salah scored a stoppage-time penalty to snatch victory for the Reds at Burnley.

Deserved, yes.

None fell to any of their front four from open play, with Salah’s winner coming with the caveat of being a penalty.



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Instead, Andy Robertson first tested Martin Dubravka moments after coming on in the first half, before Dominik Szoboszlai stung the Slovakian’s gloves from distances after moving into midfield.

Substitute Jeremie Frimpong would also be denied by the shot-stopper late on, with all three lining up at full-back at one point or another.

With Alexander Isak on strike at Newcastle United during the opening weeks of the season, Eddie Howe regularly bemoaned how the absence of his star striker was costing his side points as they went winless - fighting out two 0-0 draws and losing 3-2 to Liverpool - in their opening three games.

It would have been easy for the Reds to make a similar excuse as they toiled against Burnley, having belatedly brought in Isak in a club-record move on transfer deadline day.

It is easy to wonder what if and how things might have been different had the Reds been able to call upon their £125m man in attack rather than left him at home.

As frustrating as it might be, it was always going to take time.

It has taken late drama for Liverpool to emerge victorious in each of their four games.

An 18-minute substitute appearance for Sweden during the break is the limit of his game-time since the final day of last season, while he spent the majority of pre-season training in isolation.

But such logic would have perhaps gone out the window, in the fanbase at least, had Liverpool been left unable to break down newly-promoted Burnley.

Instead, Salah sent them into raptures late on.

Not for the first time and it won’t be the last time.

“The Reds have got no money but we’ll still win the league!” they chanted ironically after the final whistle.

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Liverpool lead the way once again.