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Mohamed Salah is no longer a Liverpool player. That sentence, unthinkable for most of the past decade, is the starting point for any honest hub page about Africa's most prolific modern footballer in November 2026. The Egyptian left Anfield in the summer of 2026, a year before the contract extension he signed in April 2025 was due to expire, and joined Trabzonspor on a free transfer. In Turkey, at 34, he is scoring again — eight goals and three assists in his first 10 Super Lig matches, enough to lead the league's scoring charts as Trabzonspor sit third, three points behind leaders Galatasaray after 10 games.
This hub keeps the Liverpool record in full, because that is where Salah became a historic figure, and it updates the story to where he actually plays now. Figures below are as verified on 3 November 2026. Where a fee or wage was never officially disclosed, it is labelled Reported, not presented as fact.
The current picture: Trabzonspor, 2026-27
Salah signed a two-year deal with Trabzonspor in August 2026, running to June 2028. The wage figure circulating in reporting — around €17 million (about $19 million) per season — is Reported, not Disclosed: neither the club nor the player has published the terms. What is verifiable is the output. In the Super Lig this season he has 8 goals and 3 assists in 10 appearances, with a hat-trick in a 4-0 win over champions Galatasaray in September and a goal and an assist on his UEFA Conference League debut against KuPS.
Trabzonspor, seven-time Turkish champions who finished third in the Super Lig last season, took 22 points from their first 10 league games. Salah has directly contributed to more than 45 per cent of their league goals in that spell, according to reporting of the early-season numbers. He wears the No. 10 shirt. His next match, at the time of writing, is the Conference League tie against Freiburg on 5 November.
The move surprised Europe. Saudi Arabian clubs had pursued him for years — Al Ittihad's unsuccessful £150 million bid in the summer of 2023 is a matter of record — and Saudi interest was again reported in the summer of 2026. Salah chose Turkey instead, and chose a club outside Istanbul's traditional big three. The early returns suggest the choice was footballing as much as commercial: he is the focal point of a title-chasing side, not a marquee name on the periphery of one.
The Liverpool record, in full
Salah joined Liverpool from Roma in the summer of 2017 for a fee reported at €42 million. Nine years later he left as the club's third-highest scorer of all time, behind only Ian Rush (346) and Roger Hunt (285), with 255 goals in 435 appearances in all competitions, according to the retrospective published at his departure.
The Premier League numbers are the cleanest measure of his dominance. In 315 Premier League appearances for Liverpool he scored 191 goals and provided 93 assists — 284 goal involvements for a single club, the most by any player for one club in Premier League history. He is the highest-scoring African player in Premier League history, and Liverpool's all-time leading scorer in European competition, with 53 goals.
His honours at Anfield tell the same story in silverware: two Premier League titles, including the 2024-25 title under Arne Slot, the 2018-19 UEFA Champions League, the FIFA Club World Cup, the UEFA Super Cup, the FA Cup, the Community Shield and two League Cups.
The season that redefined the record books: 2024-25
If one season explains Salah, it is 2024-25. He played all 38 Premier League games, scored 29 goals and provided 18 assists — 47 goal involvements in total. That equalled the all-time Premier League single-season record held by Andrew Cole (1993-94) and Alan Shearer (1994-95), both set in 42-game seasons. In a 38-game season, nobody has ever done more.
He won the Golden Boot, the Playmaker award for most assists, and the Premier League Player of the Season award in the same campaign — the first player ever to claim all three together. It was his fourth Golden Boot, level with Thierry Henry for the most in Premier League history. He scored and assisted in 11 different league games that season, another record. In all competitions in 2024-25 he scored 34 goals and provided 23 assists.
The numbers underneath the headline were just as striking. Sixteen of his 29 league goals came away from home, a joint record, and he added 11 away assists. All 18 of his assists came from open play. This was not a penalty-inflated season or a purple patch; it was a complete attacking campaign from a 32-year-old winger who had already played eight seasons at the club.
The contract story, honestly told
Salah's contract history at Liverpool is a study in how modern superstar deals actually work — and how they end. He signed a three-year deal in July 2022, then, after months of public speculation in 2024-25, a two-year extension in April 2025 that would have kept him at Anfield until the summer of 2027 and taken him to a full decade at the club. The financial terms of that extension were never officially disclosed. Reporting at the time put his basic wage at around £350,000 per week under his previous deal, with bonuses pushing earnings higher; the widely reported figure for the new deal, around £380,000-£400,000 per week, is Reported, not Disclosed, and this hub does not present it as a club figure.
What happened next is why the extension did not run its course. In March 2026 Salah announced he would leave at the end of the 2025-26 season, and Liverpool agreed to terminate the final year of the deal. His final season at Anfield was, by his standards, a difficult one: he scored only seven Premier League goals, was left out of the starting line-up at times by Slot, and was publicly critical of the club after a draw at Leeds in December 2025. He left as a free agent, which is why Trabzonspor paid no transfer fee. Liverpool, in turn, received no fee for a player they had signed for €42 million nine years earlier — a reminder that even the most productive free-transfer departures carry a cost in foregone value.
Egypt: the record still to finish
For Egypt, Salah remains captain and the country's second-highest scorer of all time, behind Hossam Hassan. He holds the African record for goals in World Cup qualifying, with 20, moving clear of Samuel Eto'o and Didier Drogba. He has captained Egypt at World Cups and Africa Cup of Nations finals, and the one conspicuous gap in his international record — a major trophy with the Pharaohs — is the context for everything he does next in an Egypt shirt. With AFCON 2027 in East Africa on the horizon, his form in Turkey is not a footnote to his international career; it is its current chapter.
What his numbers actually mean
Three things stand out when the whole record is laid out together.
First, longevity is the rarest part of the record. Salah scored 20 or more goals in eight consecutive seasons at Liverpool. In a league where wingers are routinely replaced by 30, he was still producing a record-equalling season at 32 and is still leading a league's scoring charts at 34. The Trabzonspor start — 8 goals in 10 league games — is not a retirement tour; it is the same pattern, in a different league, at a lower intensity.
Second, he changed what an African player could be in the Premier League's record books. Before Salah, no African player had topped both the goals and assists charts in the same Premier League season. He did it twice, in 2021-22 and 2024-25. The all-time African scoring record in the competition is now his by a margin that will take a generation to challenge.
Third, the ending matters to the numbers. Salah's Liverpool story does not close with a farewell season of diminishing returns being politely ignored. It closes with a mutual termination, a free transfer, and an immediate revival elsewhere. That is the modern football economy in miniature: contracts, even two-year extensions signed in triumph, are only as durable as form, fit and feeling between player and club.
What to watch next
This hub will be updated, not rewritten. The markers to watch are simple: whether Salah stays atop the Super Lig scoring charts through the winter; whether Trabzonspor's title challenge survives the Conference League schedule; and how his Turkey form feeds into Egypt's AFCON 2027 build-up. The Liverpool numbers will not change now. They are closed, complete, and — for any African player who follows him into the Premier League — the standard to beat.
Sportblot will carry the tracker from here: Salah's season, week by week, in the same format as every other African abroad — minutes, goals, assists, and what they actually mean.
