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#1 Mohamed Salah breaks the individual goalscoring record
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Salah with his golden boot that he deservedly won
Mohamed Salah returned to the Premier League with the intention of proving Chelsea wrong for selling him without exploring his potential, but no one including Salah himself would have believed that he would break a record held by world-class players like Cristiano Ronaldo, Luis Suarez and Alan Shearer.
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The former Basel has been on fire since his Liverpool debut, bar a few games. His form saw him score 32 goals in the league beating Harry Kane for the golden boot and also breaking the individual goalscoring record in a 38 game Premier League season.
Salah's season could get even better if the 25-year-old along with his teammates, Roberto Firmino and Sadio Mane, could lead Liverpool to a victory against Real Madrid in less than two weeks.
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Winning the UEFA Champions League trophy would make the winger a strong contender for the prestigious Ballon d'Or award.
One season, which saw Salah take the footballing world by storm, has taken him from just a 'Chelsea reject' to the 'Egyptian King'.
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Dakir Mohammed Thanveer
Dakir is a European and Indian football journalist at Sportskeeda with an overall experience of 10 years. Holding a Master’s degree in Journalism & Mass Communication, and currently pursuing Master’s in Sports Journalism from Sheffield Hallam University, he is a seasoned football journalist who has interviewed the likes of former Liverpool star John Arne Riise, covered the entire 2022-23 Indian Super League season of the Kerala Blasters, and has delivered a seminar at an international conference held by St. Albert's College, Ernakulam.
Thanks to his extensive academic background in journalism, Dakir understands the importance of accuracy and spends a significant amount of time researching the subject. In today’s data-driven world of football, where players are perceived as machines, he prides himself amplify the voices of the people that make football the beautiful game that it is.
He started following football in 2013, and more specifically, Brendan Rodgers’ Liverpool, and admires Jurgen Klopp for his untouched charisma and unmatched legacy. A perpetual underdog supporter, he is a fan of under-fire Reds forward Darwin Nunez and can’t wait for him to show the world what he truly is. Trent Alexander-Arnold’s iconic “corner taken quickly” corner assist for Divock Origi in Liverpool’s 4-0 UCL semifinal win over Barcelona left a lasting impact on him.
When not writing, Dakir enjoys indulging in his guilty pleasure - watching mass commercial movies.