Robbie Fowler has expressed his delight at Mohamed Salah’s contract extension but has admitted that he may now lose his status as Liverpool’s record Premier League goalscorer.
Salah put pen to paper on a new lucrative deal worth £350,000 a week on Friday, tying him down at Anfield until the summer of 2025.
The Egypt international’s deal was set to expire in the next 12 months, but the Merseyside club opted to keep him and break their previously stringent wage structure.
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Former Red Fowler weighed in on how happy he is about this news and how the number 11 compares to previous Anfield favourites Luis Suarez and Fernando Torres.
“Liverpool may be joyfully saying hello to another three years of Mo Salah,” he wrote in his Mirror column.
“But, it means I say goodbye to my status as the club’s all-time top scorer in the Premier League!
“I’m delighted he’s staying. I don’t consider players as legends of any club, unless they show some real passion and commitment to the club.
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“I know I’m probably in the minority, but I’ve always rejected the idea that Luis Suarez and Fernando Torres are Liverpool legends.
“Neither of them stuck around long enough to ever be regarded like that.
“Both of them tainted their legacy in the manner they left the club, with both of them seeming desperate to go and prepared to screw the club over.
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“I always thought Salah was in danger of doing that too, with the way things were dragging on over his contract negotiations and the way his agent seemed to be stirring up trouble.
“But fair play to him. The bottom line is, he wanted to stay- probably to smash all my records!
"That tells me wants to become a proper Liverpool legend.”
Fowler netted 128 Premier League goals for Liverpool, and with Salah currently on 118, you’d expect him to break this in the upcoming campaign.
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Topics: Liverpool, Mohamed Salah
Alfie Culshaw