Mohamed Salah: Arne Slot says Liverpool expect forward ‘to continue for long time’ with club

Robbie Fowler scored 128 times in the Premier League for Liverpool and was in no doubt about how the club should handle Salah’s future.

Speaking on Amazon Prime, Fowler said: “Salah’s stats and data are incredible. We talked about him getting that new contract and his agent should be there first thing in the morning to get him to sign that contract.

“He is that player who can change a game. He has moments and he is exceptional in those moments. He is a match winner.”

Salah’s stunning second half means he has now scored and assisted in 37 Premier League matches, overtaking Wayne Rooney (36) as the player to have done so on the most occasions in the competition.

Salah has scored in each of his past seven Premier League matches, with the Egyptian becoming just the third player to have two separate runs of seven or more consecutive games scored in a row in the competition along with Jamie Vardy and his new Leicester manager Ruud van Nistelrooy.

Salah has 325 goals and assists in 370 games for Liverpool since joining from Roma in 2017, and only legendary captain Steven Gerrard (92) has more than his 76 assists for the club in the Premier League.

Salah’s total of 168 Premier League goals for Liverpool puts him comfortably top of the club’s list – add in the two he got for Chelsea and Salah is eighth in the all-time charts, just five behind Arsenal great Thierry Henry.