Mohamed Salah makes 'elite' Liverpool exit claim as plans for summer transfer are explained

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Mohamed Salah believes he leaves Liverpool having returned the club to the elite over the past nine seasonsMohamed Salah believes he has left Anfield having returned Liverpool "to the elite," as he revealed his next move will be decided after the World Cup.Salah played his last game for the Reds on Sunday, claiming his 93rd and final Premier League assist for Curtis Jones in a 1-1 draw with Brentford and the Egypt international walks away as the third-highest goalscorer of all time at Anfield, with 257.During his nine seasons at Anfield, Salah was the top scorer in eight and was integral to a side that won two Premier League titles, the 2019 Champions League and a first-ever FIFA Club World Cup alongside the FA Cup in 2022 and a couple of League Cups.As a result, the 33-year-old is one of the most decorated players of the 21st century at Liverpool and he ends his storybook career with the Reds feeling he has done plenty to make sure the club is considered one of the powerhouses of the world game once more.“Thank God I ended my career with Liverpool like this," Salah told beIN Sports. "I realised everything, I leave and people are proud of what I did."I feel like I've put the team again, by a large percentage, in the place it deserves among the elite, that's the most important thing for me.“I expected [good] things, but I didn't expect to achieve everything with the team and for myself, I won almost all the championships."Today (Sunday's game) was very difficult for me psychologically, because it was my last match in a place where I lived for nine years, where I lived the best days of my youth.FOLLOW OUR LIVERPOOL FC FACEBOOK PAGE!

All the latest news and analysis from Anfield on the Liverpool Echo's dedicated LFC Facebook page“But thank God, if I look back I feel like I have lived my youth, I did everything in football and I have achieved everything in football, and I lived the way I lived with the club, there is nothing I can dream of more than that."Salah confirmed his decision to leave as a free agent in the March international break, with the club happy to allow the wantaway No.11 out of his contract 12 months early, less than a year after signing a two-year extension.And the departing Reds winger says he will decide his next move with agent Ramy Abbas once Egypt's World Cup campaign is over later this summer.He added: “I will still see [about where to go next], I have time now, I am going to the World Cup and then everything will be clear, either if there is a good opportunity before it I will decide, and if it is not there, I will make my decision after the World Cup.“I hope that many Egyptians will come out and achieve what I did, because this is one of the things I dreamed of when I first went out to Europe, to open the doors for many people to be a profession.“Thank God we have good talents, but we need an opportunity, not only an opportunity, but also diligence and fatigue, and to be aware that they must sacrifice, perhaps their youth, in order to reach something good."I hope, God willing, that many people will get out of Egypt who can do what I did and more.”