InterviewWhy Mohamed Salah's thirst for improvement will never be quenched

The No.11 last week reached the 20-goal mark for Liverpool for an eighth consecutive season and recently overtook Billy Liddell to go into fourth place on the club’s all-time top scorers list.

Salah’s remarkable levels of consistency have seen him score 231 goals and register 104 assists in just 375 appearances for the Reds since his arrival from AS Roma in the summer of 2017.

In a stellar 2024-25 to date, he has recorded 20 goals and 17 assists in 26 games for Liverpool but he sees no reason to stop trying to get even better.

Asked if he feels like he is still improving as a player, Salah said: “Yeah, I think so. I think if the players think, ‘OK, he reached his high potential,’ he will just go down. I think I am very humble, I ask the players what they think I can improve.

“Even if they are younger than me and maybe didn’t achieve the things I have achieved, but this is part of me: you tell me because sometimes other people see more than you. So, I am asking them, ‘What do you think I can improve? What do you think I can do better?’

“I can [then] just think about it and think, ‘OK, maybe I need to improve.’ But I always think I can improve in many, many things.”

Read more from Salah below.

On whether he can top the 44 goals and 14 assists he posted in his first season with Liverpool…

Hopefully! The plan is to beat those numbers because so far the numbers [this season] are very good, so hopefully I can beat those numbers. But again, I don’t want to beat it and not have trophies. I want to have trophies and even if I have a little bit less [in] numbers, I am fine with it. But [I] just want a big trophy.

On winning three Premier League Golden Boots and whether he can get a fourth this season…

The fourth would be quite tricky because there are too many strikers who are scoring too many goals and they are also doing a great job. Winning it three times is, I think, something incredible because usually wingers in the Premier League win it once maximum. So, I have won it three times [and that is] something I don’t take for granted. I am very, very humble and very privileged.

On how he would sum up his feelings for the club…

Incredible. I would say I enjoy every moment in this club, even when we struggle I just try to think, ‘OK, just enjoy the moment,’ because this experience maybe will never come again. People, they sometimes run away from bad experiences, but I don’t. Every experience I have I am like, ‘I am glad I am here in this situation now and experiencing it,’ because after football you will never experience things like that. Players always want a good memory but when I look at it, it doesn’t always have to be a positive memory: it’s bad or good based on how you see it, it’s your definition of ‘bad’ or ‘good’. So, I always try to say: ‘OK, it’s a new experience, I have to accept it and express the feeling around it.’

On whether his own and the team’s form this season is a product of a positive and determined mindset...

Yeah, for sure. Before the season I was like, ‘OK, this is a different coach, I don’t know if the team is going to be different or not but I just want to work in the same way and also enjoy my football and see where the season will end up.’ And yeah, half of the season [is over] now and we are in a very, very good situation and hopefully we are going to carry on like that and win a big trophy.

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