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Mightily impressive, wouldn’t you say, given he managed to do so without even kicking a ball.

Okay, the latest accolade is rather more trivial than the majority of his previous feats during a goal and trophy-laden eight years at Anfield.

Ahead of the new season, the Premier League revealed that the Liverpool star had been priced up at £14.5m on its popular Fantasy Football game.



The most expensive player going in this year’s edition, such a total is the highest-ever opening cost for a midfielder in the game - overtaking Cristiano Ronaldo’s starter price of £14m in 2008/09.

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For context, the then 23-year-old had just returned 42 goals and eight assists from 49 appearances in all competitions as he fired Manchester United to Premier League and Champions League glory in 2007/08.

Such efforts would also earn him his Ballon d’Or.

Of all the Ronaldo records Salah thrives to beat, admittedly a record Fantasy Premier League price will not place highly.

But it does reiterate just how incredible his form was for the Reds last season, with only a premature Champions League exit removing him from the conversation when it comes to discussing this year’s Ballon d’Or favourites.

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Making 52 appearances, the forward returned 34 goals and 23 assists.

With 48 of those goal contributions coming in the English top-flight, equalling the record in a single Premier League campaign, he inevitably smashed the record for the most points in a FPL season last term too.

Now a two-time Premier League champion after Arne Slot’s men stormed to the title, the individual honours piled up once again.

Winning a hat-trick of Premier League Player of the Season, a joint-record fourth Golden Boot and his second playmaker award, he was also named both FWA Footballer of the Year for a joint-record third time.

As was proven to be the case last season, for as long as he delivers like this, there has to be a place for him at Anfield.

In truth the forthcoming campaign has the potential to be the 33-year-old’s most memorable yet.

With Liverpool spending close to £300m on the arrivals of Florian Wirtz, Hugo Ekitike, Milos Kerkez, Jeremie Frimpong, Giorgi Mamardashvili, Armin Pecsi and Freddie Woodman before the end of July - with more new arrivals expected - the Reds certainly mean business.

They will head into the season as both defending Premier League champions and title favourites, hungry to become the first Liverpool side to win back-to-back titles since 1984.

But such ambition will go beyond just the English top-flight.

And Slot is cautiously edging towards having such additional attacking options, with Wirtz, Ekitike and Frimpong all helping to bolster the Reds’ ranks in the final third.

Of course, Salah will not be an ever-present for Liverpool this season, with his chances of smashing Reds scoring records hindered as a result.

He could miss as many as 10 matches due to his participation in the Africa Cup of Nations, including the entire Premier League festive period.

Should Egypt reach the final, he will sit out six matches in the English top-flight - including trips to both Tottenham Hotspur and Arsenal.
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