{"id":9336,"date":"2025-04-10T23:58:10","date_gmt":"2025-04-10T23:58:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/9336\/"},"modified":"2025-04-10T23:58:10","modified_gmt":"2025-04-10T23:58:10","slug":"how-close-mohamed-salah-can-get-to-breaking-ian-rushs-goal-scoring-record-with-two-more-years-at-liverpool","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/9336\/","title":{"rendered":"How close Mohamed Salah can get to breaking Ian Rush’s goal-scoring record with two more years at Liverpool"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Liverpool fans were delivered some fantastic news on Wednesday with Mohamed Salah and Virgil van Dijk standing on the verge of new contracts.<\/strong><\/p>\n

After a long season of will they, won\u2019t they, the pair are reportedly all set to sign on to extend their respective stays at Anfield.<\/p>\n

Reports suggest Salah and Van Dijk have agreed to two more years at Liverpool<\/a>, which will take them both up to 2027.<\/p>\n

In the case of Van Dijk, that will hopefully see the Dutchman lift another major trophy or two as Liverpool<\/a> captain. For Salah, he will have his eye on breaking all sorts of goal scoring records.<\/p>\n

Having already achieved his status as third top-scorer in Liverpool history<\/a>, the Egyptian will now be gunning extra hard to topple Ian Rush<\/a> in top spot.<\/p>\n

And with two more years at Anfield<\/a> virtually secured, here\u2019s how close we think Mo will come to the moustachioed maestro.<\/p>\n

\"PhotoPhoto by MI News\/NurPhoto via Getty ImagesMohamed Salah eyeing Ian Rush record<\/p>\n

Having hit 346 goals for Liverpool, Rush\u2019s goal-scoring record has long seemed completely unassailable. Even Salah, with his feats of finding the net, looked all set to fall well short.<\/p>\n

Thankfully, though, Mo is going to get another go. With the 32-year-old sitting on 243, it still seems like a big ask, mind you.<\/p>\n

Assuming Salah<\/a> sees out two more years at Anfield, he would have to score an average of 51.5 goals per season for the Reds. Given his current best stands at 44, that is unlikely to happen.<\/p>\n

Over his almost eight years at Liverpool so far, Salah has hit an average of 30.4 goals per campaign.<\/p>\n\nRank<\/td>\nPlayer<\/td>\nAppearances<\/td>\nGoals<\/td>\nGoals per Game<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n\n1.<\/td>\nIan Rush<\/td>\n660<\/td>\n346<\/td>\n1.91<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n\n2.<\/td>\nRoger Hunt<\/td>\n492<\/td>\n285<\/td>\n1.73<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n\n3.<\/td>\nMohamed Salah<\/td>\n394<\/td>\n243<\/td>\n1.62<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n\n4.<\/td>\nGordon Hodgson<\/td>\n377<\/td>\n241<\/td>\n1.56<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n\n5.<\/td>\nBilly Liddell<\/td>\n534<\/td>\n228<\/td>\n2.34<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n

LFC top five goal-scorers of all-time<\/p>\n

READ MORE: What Mohamed Salah has been saying \u2018behind the scenes\u2019 about his new Liverpool contract<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n

Going at the same rate, the Egyptian King would scored 61 more goals for the Reds, leaving him on 304 \u2013 39 short of Rush \u2013 by summer of 2027.<\/p>\n

Of course, there is still a possibility that Salah earns another contract at Liverpool. If he\u2019s bagged 60 goals in two seasons then you\u2019d suggest that may well be the case. At the rate he\u2019s going it would take the No.11 three-and-a-half years to match Rush.<\/p>\n

What about Alan Shearer\u2019s Premier League record?<\/p>\n

Although he may not reach it, Rush\u2019s is not the only record Salah will be aiming for over the next couple of years.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n

Having been consistently prolific, Mo sits join fifth with Sergio Aguero in terms of all-time Premier League top scorers. On 184, he is 76 behind leader Alan Shearer.<\/p>\n

During his eight seasons in the league so far, Salah has been running an average of 22.75 Premier League goals per season.<\/p>\n

Continuing at his current rate, Salah would end his time in England having scored 229.5 league goals. Enough to take him ahead of Harry Kane into second, but still some way off Shearer.<\/p>\n

Another season would then take Salah closer, but like with Rush, he\u2019ll statistically need more than three seasons to reach the top of the leaderboard. <\/p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Liverpool fans were delivered some fantastic news on Wednesday with Mohamed Salah and Virgil van Dijk standing on…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":9337,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4100],"tags":[94,6362,1128,79,16,15],"class_list":{"0":"post-9336","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-football","8":"tag-football","9":"tag-ian-rush","10":"tag-mohamed-salah","11":"tag-sports","12":"tag-uk","13":"tag-united-kingdom"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/114316385029928435","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9336","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9336"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9336\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/9337"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9336"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9336"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9336"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}