Mohamed Salah is on track to achieve the best individual Premier League season in history after committing his future to Liverpool.
The Reds talisman has signed a new two-year deal as a reward for a campaign where he has consistently rewritten the record books.
The Egyptian has put up numbers comparable with Lionel Messi and Cristiano Ronaldo en route to breaking his own record for the most Fantasy Premier League points scored in a season.
Overall, Salah already has 44 goal contributions in the top-flight alone this term and has another seven games to break all records.
The 32-year-old is just three short of the Premier League record, but he’s already level for the best individual tally in a 38-game season.
Who has the record for most goals and assists in a Premier League season?
Alan Shearer and Andy Cole share the mantle for the most goal contributions in a single Premier League season with 47.
Shearer achieved the feat in Blackburn’s title-winning campaign in 1994/95, with Cole doing the same for Newcastle the year before.
However, an important distinction is that both of those achievements came in a 42-game season when the Premier League had 22 teams.
Since the introduction of a 38-game season in 1995/96, Thierry Henry and Erling Haaland share the record with 44 goal contributions each.
Arsenal‘s iconic Frenchman Henry scored 24 goals and provided 20 assists during his historic 2002/03 campaign.
Haaland, meanwhile, matched that contribution in his opening season in England, scoring 36 goals and providing eight assists.
That latter achievement is the most goals scored in a single Premier League campaign, with the Norwegian two ahead of Cole.
Kevin De Bruyne and Henry are tied for the most assists in a single season, having laid on 20 in 2019-20 and that 02/03 campaign, respectively.
The joint record is somewhat controversial, with Man City superstar De Bruyne believing he should hold the feat outright and that some of his assists that year were wrongfully taken from him.
As reported by goal, De Bruyne said: “I have got two more – you guys took two away from me that I am still claiming so for me I was already above [Henry].
“It is what it is. I need my teammates, obviously I am creating for them to score, and I am grateful when they do. It is nice to have [the record] and it is nice to have it with Thierry.”
Ironically, both of his alleged assists came against Arsenal, with De Bruyne’s cross for Raheem Sterling‘s goal in a 3-0 win in December 2019 taking a slight deflection so didn’t get counted.
In the reverse fixture, KDB teed up Sterling again that June but missed out on the assist as the ball hit David Luiz on the thigh.
Most Assists in a Premier League Season
Thierry Henry – Arsenal (2002/03 – 20)
Kevin De Bruyne – Man City (2019/20 – 20)
Mesut Ozil – Arsenal (2015/16 – 19)
Cesc Fabregas – Chelsea (2014/15 – 18)
Frank Lampard – Chelsea (2004/05 – 18)
Kevin De Bruyne – Man City (2016/17 – 18)
Players who have scored 30 goals in a Premier League season
- 1 Erling Haaland (Manchester City) 36 2022-23
- 2 Andy Cole (Newcastle United) 34 1993-94
- 2 Alan Shearer (Blackburn Rovers) 34 1994-95
- 4 Mohamed Salah (Liverpool) 32 2017-18
- 5 Alan Shearer (Blackburn Rovers) 31 1993-94
- 5 Alan Shearer (Blackburn Rovers) 31 1995-96
- 5 Cristiano Ronaldo (Manchester United) 31 2007-08
- 5 Luis Suarez (Liverpool) 31 2013-14
- 9 Kevin Phillips (Sunderland) 30 1999-00
- 9 Thierry Henry (Arsenal) 30 2003-04
- 9 Robin van Persie (Arsenal) 30 2011-12
- 9 Harry Kane (Tottenham Hotspur) 30 2017-18 and 2022-23
