27.3.2026
Former Liverpool coach Jurgen Klopp has backed Mohammed Salah to keep playing football for another seven years after the Egyptian announced his exit from the club this week.
Klopp signed Salah from Roma in 2017, and he turned out to be a good recruitment for Liverpool. Salah, 33, scored 255 goals for Liverpool, with only Ian Rush and Roger Hunt ahead of him on the club’s all-time list.
“Salah is an incredible professional,” Klopp told BBC Sport.
“He set completely new standards for a professional football player – how hard you can work; how much you can invest in recovery and everything.”
The German added: “Now he leaves here but I would not be surprised if he plays another six or seven years.
“I’m sad but he’s an all-time great without a shadow of a doubt and I’m really proud to be a part of that career.”
Klopp and Salah together won the Premier League, Champions League, the FA Cup, two League Cups, UEFA Super Cup and Fifa Club World Cup.
“He knows this was the perfect club for him and he was the perfect player for us,” said Klopp.
“Mo and I had big dreams, but we didn’t dare to dream that big. I’m not sure we can appreciate it to the right extent – that will happen soon now. I wish him the best of luck because he deserves it.
“The numbers he produced and the standards he set, some of them, if not all, will stay unmatched in this modern Premier League era, definitely, because it’s ridiculous to do that, and to do it for one club more or less.”
Klopp, 58, added Salah is “one of the best” professionals and people he has met.
He said: “We texted the other day and we had our arguments, but it was always for the right reasons. It’s always fine, especially now looking back, it’s more than fine. And we are both really happy about being part of that incredible journey.”
Jurgen Klopp and Salah...memories together.