Mohamed Salah's chase for records: Liverpool icon out to complete greatest-ever Premier League campaign after wrapping up the title

After dropping four points in their previous two games, against Newcastle and Fulham, Liverpool reasserted their superiority over the rest of the Premier League with a stunning 6-3 demolition of Spurs on December 22.

It was also a hugely significant day for Salah, who not only scored twice in north London, but also set up goals for Dominik Szoboszlai and Luis Diaz.

In doing so, he reached double figures for both goals and assists in the same season for the fourth consecutive year, and the sixth time overall (both records).

Salah also became the first man to achieve the feat before Christmas.

"I didn’t think about it before the game, to be fair, but I’m glad I did it," he told Sky. "[It's] something that makes me happy. I'm proud and I'll just keep working hard."

Liverpool effectively sealed the title with a statement victory over Manchester City at the Etihad on February 23. Unsurprisingly, Salah was the star of the show.

A clever corner-kick routine helped him break the deadlock, with Salah sweeping home Dominik Szoboszlai's deft, near-post flick after just 14 minutes play.

Their roles were effectively reversed just before the break, when Salah laid the ball off for his Hungarian team-mate, who fired Liverpool into a 2-0 lead that they never had any intention of relinquishing.

For Salah, it meant another little piece of history, as he became the first man since Lionel Messi in 2014-15 to both score and assist in 11 games in the same season across any of Europe's 'Big Five' leagues.

In addition, no Premier League player had ever before scored and assisted in both games against the reigning champions. With his heroics at the Etihad, Salah also took his overall tally of goals (nine) and assists (six) against teams coached by Pep Guardiola to 15 - another historic haul.

Just two days after finally signing a two-year contract extension with Liverpool, Salah showed precisely why the club were willing to give him a lucrative new deal by leaving Luis Diaz with a tap-in against West Ham with a sublime, outside-of-the-boot cross from the left flank.

It was a record-breaking assist, too, as it took Salah to 45 goal involvements for the 2024-25 campaign - a new Premier League record for a 38-game season.

The crazy thing is that Salah is now perfectly placed to claim the 42-game record, too.

Last week's strike against Spurs has moved him to 45 goal involvements in just 34 appearances; with just two more in Liverpool's final four outings, he'd move past the previous milestone set by Alan Shearer and Andy Cole.

Given he's also committed himself to Liverpool for at least another two years, we can't rule out Salah claiming top spot in the overall rankings too.

He's fifth right now, on 270, but it's only a matter of time before Salah surpasses both Ryan Giggs (271) and Frank Lampard (279), and if he were to maintain his current rate of productivity (and we're seeing little evidence to suggest that he won't!), he could end up reeling in Rooney (311) and Shearer (324) as well.

Thierry Henry is almost universally regarded as the greatest player in Premier League history. However, Salah has emerged as a very real threat to the Frenchman's throne and is now threatening to equal some of Henry's most impressive feats.

What obviously made Arsenal's all-time leading scorer so great was the fact that he didn't just score goals, he created them too.

Indeed, Henry is the only player in Premier League history to have both scored and assisted 20 or more goals in the same season, while the World Cup winner also shares the record for most assists across a single campaign (20) with Manchester City legend Kevin De Bruyne.

Salah, though, is just two assists away from matching both of those remarkable achievements, so you can be sure that he'll be begging Slot to start all four of Liverpool's remaining matches even though the title has already been wrapped up.

Salah won't be just hoping to add to his assists tally between and the end of the season; he'll also be eyeing a few more goals. For starters, the Premier League's Golden Boot is not yet in the bag.

Salah (28) has a healthy six-goal lead over Alexander Isak (22) at the top of the standings but the Swede is undoubtedly capable of finishing the season with a flourish for a Newcastle United side that is in fine form and chasing Champions League football. Salah will also have noted that Erling Haaland (21) is back in full training at Manchester City, who have a very soft run-in...

Still, there's no getting away from the fact that Liverpool's Egyptian King is perfectly placed to equal another Henry record by winning a fourth Golden Boot.

The European Golden Shoe is also up for grabs, of course, and it's a trophy that Salah has never won before. When the winger broke the Premier League's 38-game goals record in his first year at Anfield, in 2017-18, by netting 32 times, he was pipped to top spot by Messi (34).

This time around, it's Sporting's free-scoring forward Viktor Gyokeres who leads the way but Salah is just one point behind, and goals in the Premier League count more than they do in the Primeira Liga, meaning a first Golden Shoe is still very much there for the taking.

Of course, once the current campaign concludes, attention will naturally turn to where Salah might end up on some of the most prestigious lists in English football.

With his pair of penalties against Southampton on March 8, he took outright possession of third place on Liverpool's all-time leading scorers chart, with 243 goals.

Ian Rush (346) looks pretty secure in top spot (unless Salah signs another extension in a couple of years!) but Roger Hunt (285) could be caught. Remember, Salah has never finished a campaign with fewer than 23 goals in all competitions...

In terms of the Premier League, Salah has just broken into the top 10 for assists, with 87, but he's got little chance of displacing Ryan Giggs in top spot (162).

Shearer's goals record (260) is probably safe, too, but fifth-placed Salah will feel himself entirely capable of taking second spot away from Harry Kane (213).

Whether he does or not depends on him maintaining his frankly absurd level of consistency and that’s by no means guaranteed.

The one thing we do know for sure, though, is that with this campaign for the ages, Salah’s status as one of the finest Premier League players of all time is already beyond dispute.