Driven, outspoken, inspiring: Salah leaves Liverpool having met Kop legend goal

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He is an ambitious player who wants to win and win at the highest level; he knows he can fulfil those ambitions with Liverpool.”As Salah prepares to take his leave from Liverpool after 257 goals, 441 appearances, eight major honours and numerous rewrites of the record books, he does so secure in the knowledge he could not have given any more to realise Klopp’s mission statement. Salah is adamant he has more to give at the highest level and that he was unfairly scapegoated for Liverpool’s dismal season when dropped for three games by Arne Slot late last year.

Salah’s emotional farewell to Anfield on Sunday should be a moment to salute a fierce competitor who pushed himself into Liverpool’s hall of fame, an essential part of one of the club’s finest teams and forward lines, and the almost unstoppable force who propelled Slot’s side to a record-equalling 20th league title 13 months ago.His impact was instant, remarkably consistent and would help change his and Liverpool’s fortunes. Salah scored on his Premier League debut for Liverpool, as he would on the opening day of eight of his nine seasons with the club.

He is devoted to his family, his religion and his sport, and has little time for anything else. One day a player will sit down at Liverpool’s training ground and ask what he has to do to join the club’s all-time greats, and he will listen to tales about “The Egyptian King”.