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Big Send-Off for Salah: How Liverpool Said Goodbye After 9 Years

By eplreport 4 min read

Mohamed Salah applauds Liverpool fans during his big send-off at Anfield

Arne Slot said at the start of May 2026 that Mohamed Salah deserved a big send-off, and Liverpool made sure he got one. The Egyptian forward ended nine years at Anfield on the final day of the 2025/26 season, setting up a goal, breaking one last club record and leaving the pitch in tears to a standing ovation.

Slot’s call for a big send-off

Salah’s exit had been confirmed in March, months after he said publicly in December that his relationship with Slot had broken down. By the end of April there were fears he would not play again. He was forced off injured during Liverpool’s 3-1 home win over Crystal Palace, and with only a handful of games left, it looked possible that his Anfield career would end on the treatment table.

Slot moved to calm those fears. Speaking before Liverpool’s next game, he said he expected Salah to return before the end of the campaign and that the player deserved a big send-off after everything he had given the club. Whatever had happened between the two men earlier in the season, the head coach made it clear that the club wanted the farewell to be right.

The final day against Brentford

Salah recovered in time to start the last game of the season at home to Brentford on 24 May 2026. Liverpool needed a result to secure fifth place and Champions League football for 2026/27, and a 1-1 draw was enough.

The forward did not score, though he came close when a first-half free-kick struck the upright. Instead, he made the difference as a creator, setting up Curtis Jones for Liverpool’s goal. It was his 93rd Premier League assist, a new club record that took him past Steven Gerrard.

He was substituted in the 74th minute. The whole stadium stood, Salah knelt to kiss the turf, and his teammates and staff formed a guard of honour as he walked off. Andy Robertson, who was also leaving the club, played his final game for Liverpool on the same afternoon. Liverpool’s official club news covered the farewell in full.

“Back where it belongs”

After the game, an emotional Salah said he was proud that he and his teammates had put Liverpool back where it belongs, and admitted he had cried more than at any other time in his life. He also said he would be far away from Merseyside in the years ahead but would always feel the emotion whenever he returned.

It was the big send-off Slot had asked for, and it gave a complicated final season a fitting end. TSN’s report from Anfield captures the scenes after the final whistle.

The numbers behind the farewell

Salah joined Liverpool from Roma in 2017 and leaves as one of the greatest players in the club’s history. His final totals:

  • 442 appearances in all competitions
  • 257 goals, third on Liverpool’s all-time list behind Ian Rush and Roger Hunt
  • 120 assists in all competitions
  • 193 Premier League goals, fourth on the competition’s all-time list
  • 93 Premier League assists, a Liverpool record

He won two Premier League titles, one under Jurgen Klopp and one under Slot, as well as the 2019 Champions League. He also collected four Premier League Golden Boots, the last of them in 2024/25 when his 29 league goals drove Liverpool to the title. We look at where he finished among the league’s best in our piece on the Premier League all-time scorers list.

Nine years that changed Liverpool

It is easy to forget how quickly Salah made an impact. In his first season, 2017/18, he scored 32 Premier League goals, a record for a 38-game season at the time, and helped Liverpool reach the Champions League final, where his night ended early through injury against Real Madrid. A year later he scored a penalty in the final against Tottenham as Liverpool won the trophy for a sixth time.

In 2019/20 he helped deliver the club’s first league title in 30 years, and in 2024/25 he was the driving force behind a second. Few players have been central to so many of a club’s biggest moments in such a short period.

A difficult last season

The big send-off came at the end of the most difficult campaign of Salah’s Liverpool career. After being the league’s top scorer the season before, he managed only seven Premier League goals in 2025/26, and the public fall-out with Slot in December overshadowed much of the winter.

Liverpool’s season mirrored his. The defending champions had to settle for fifth place on the final day as Arsenal took the title. Former manager Jurgen Klopp admitted he was baffled by the decline, and the debate over who can replace Salah’s output has dominated talk around the club, with John Barnes among those weighing in on a replacement.

What comes next

For Liverpool, the challenge now is replacing a player who delivered goals and assists at an elite level for nearly a decade. For Salah, the farewell closed one of the most successful chapters any overseas player has written in English football.

The big send-off ensured the final memory was of a standing ovation rather than an injury or an argument. Follow the rest of the story in our Liverpool news section.