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Perhaps the fullest realisation of what Mohamed Salah has achieved at <\/b>Liverpool<\/b><\/a> will only come with time.<\/b><\/p>\n But as he prepares to say his goodbyes on Sunday, there is plenty to appreciate and admire in the here and now.<\/p>\n There are the standards Salah helped to set that emanated through the club in his and Liverpool<\/a>‘s quest for greatness.<\/p>\n Then there are the records he broke and the trophies his goals brought to Anfield.<\/p>\n Above all, there is the sheer joy he brought and the memories he provided.<\/p>\n “He [Salah] set completely new standards for a professional football player – how hard you can work, how much you can invest in recovery and everything,” Jurgen Klopp told BBC Sport<\/a> in March.<\/p>\n Klopp was the manager when Liverpool<\/a> signed the Egyptian from Roma in 2017 for \u00a334m.<\/p>\n The deal was questioned because of Salah’s previous struggles with Chelsea<\/a> in the Premier League, but those who scouted him for Liverpool<\/a> were convinced.<\/p>\n Yet even they – the scouts, Klopp, everyone involved – could not have anticipated how Salah would become an all-time great.<\/p>\n His haul of 257 goals for Liverpool<\/a> has pushed him past the likes of Sir Kenny Dalglish, Robbie Fowler, Michael Owen and Steven Gerrard. Only Ian Rush (346) and Roger Hunt (285) have scored more.<\/p>\n “Mohamed knew what he had to do to become a Liverpool<\/a> legend and he took it to a different level,” Rush told BBC Sport.<\/p>\n “He couldn’t believe how many goals I scored. so he actually said to me: ‘Did you count your goals in training?’<\/p>\n “So he’s got that Scouse sense of humour as well. But it’s not just goals; you look at the number of assists and he’s a complete footballer.”<\/p>\n For the record, there have been 119 assists.<\/p>\n Salah’s average of a goal or an assist every 94 minutes for Liverpool<\/a> is astonishing. That’s 376 goal involvements in 35,326 minutes of football.<\/p>\n These are remarkable feats by the man who began his journey in Nagrig, a village in rural Egypt, and became one of the greatest players for one of the world’s greatest football clubs.<\/p>\n Salah sat on a throne inside Anfield last year – the club’s ‘Egyptian king’ had committed to extending his reign and marked the occasion in regal style. But now his abdication moment has arrived, a year earlier than planned.<\/a><\/p>\n It is not clear for which club or in which country Salah will play next season.<\/p>\n