210 REASONS SALAH NEEDS TO STAY AT LIVERPOOL

Egyptian King still worth his weight in goals for Reds

THERE are 210 reasons why Liverpool are not tempted to sell Mohamed Salah this summer.

That’s the number of goals the Reds forward has scored in just under seven seasons at Anfield.

Liverpool have always taken the big-picture view of Salah, instead of focusing on his recent dip in form and row with

Jurgen Klopp on

Saturday.

They see the 210 goals and 84 assists he has contributed in his 346 appearances for the club.

That’s an average of 30 goals a season, which is priceless for any team.

He is fifth in the club’s all-time scoring list, just 18 behind the legendary Billy Liddell.

Salah is the first Liverpool player to score at least 20 goals in seven successive season, which is all the more remarkable given the calibre of strikers the Reds have had.

Bar this season’s Carabao Cup when he was injured, he has been the bedrock for all their success under Klopp.

The Egyptian will be 32 in June, but he is in supreme physical condition and the five-and-a-half weeks he missed because of his two hamstring injuries at the start of the year is the longest he has been sidelined for Liverpool.

Although he has struggled for form since returning from those injuries in March, he still has 24 goals and 12 assists for the Reds this season (Salah scores against Manchester United, above).

Liverpool know it will not be easy to replace Salah and do not want to hand that problem to incoming manager Arne Slot this summer, when they will need stability.

They want the Dutchman to be able to rely on Salah’s goals as he beds himself in and makes his impression on the club. He is just too important for the Anfield club to lose right now.

Darwin Nunez continues to delight and infuriate in equal quantities and the Uruguayan has gone completely off the boil.

It is seven games without scoring for him and he went nine earlier in the season in a sign of how hot and cold he can be.

Diogo Jota is arguably Liverpool’s best natural finisher, but is sidelined again after only just returning from a knee injury. The Portuguese striker has managed just one start since February 17. Luis Diaz is an exceptional winger, but lacks end product, as he showed at home to Manchester City, and should have more than his 13 goals in all competitions this season.

Cody Gakpo has 14, but he is not an out-and-out goalscorer and is not sufficiently clinical.

Salah is all these things and kept scoring even when his Liverpool team-mates struggled for form.

He bagged 31 goals as the Merseysiders fell apart in

2020-21 and 30 in 2022-23 when the Reds missed out on the Champions League for the only time in a full season under Klopp.

All this is why Liverpool do not want to lose him this summer.