Is Mo Salah having the best Premier League season EVER? | OneFootball

Liverpool are once again Premier League champions, and Mohamed Salah has once again been the best player in the division.

The Egyptian King’s phenomenal season was recognised on Friday when the 32-year-old was named the Football Writer’s Association Footballer of the Year for the third time in his career.

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Salah leads the Premier League’s goalscoring list and has also provided more assists than anyone else in the division.

Having already broken the record for goal contributions in a 38 game season, Salah is aiming to break the all-time record in the division – only needing one more goal or assist to match Alan Shearer and Andy Cole’s joint record.

The question stands, is Salah enjoying the best individual season in the history of the division?

Salah’s sensational season

In 35 league matches this season, Salah has scored 28 goals and provided 18 assists.

If he can manage two assists in the final three games of the season he will not only break Shearer and Cole’s record but will also become only the second player to manage 20 goals and 20 assists in the same season, after Thierry Henry.

This season probably won’t see Salah match his highest goal return (he’d need four goals in the final three games), but his creative output makes up for that. This is undoubtedly Salah’s best season.

Liverpool, the Premier League champions, have scored 81 goals in the league this season. Salah has been directly involved in 46 of them. That’s 57% which is frankly ridiculous.

Erling Haaland’s 36-goal season is considered by some to be the Premier League’s greatest individual season, but the Norwegian only managed eight assists, and his contributions only made up 47% of Manchester City’s 94 goals in the 2022/23 season.

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Is Salah’s season the undisputed greatest of all time?

Until this year, many Liverpool fans would have told you Luis Suarez’s 31 goals and 13 assists in 33 matches in 2013/14 was the greatest individual season.

Suarez’s campaign is nothing to be scoffed at, but the fact that Salah has managed more goal contributions and also won the league means he edges it in that battle.

Henry’s 2002/03 season, in which he scored 24 goals and provided 20 assists is also a contender, but Arsenal once again weren’t champions and Salah has already managed more goal involvements with three games still to play.

Salah has broken the record for the most games in which a player has scored an assisted in the same match this season, with 11.

It is hard to argue that Salah’s campaign hasn’t been the greatest individual effort the division has ever seen, and it is also hard to imagine that the league will ever see a better campaign again.