Mohamed Salah says Liverpool bond ‘means everything’ ahead of Anfield farewell

Mohamed Salah has said his connection with Liverpool supporters "means everything" as he prepares for what is expected to be his final appearance for the club at Anfield on Sunday.

Liverpool host Brentford in their last home game of the season, a match that now carries extra emotional weight with Salah set to bring an extraordinary nine-year chapter on Merseyside to a close.

For Liverpool, this is more than a farewell to a star forward. It is the likely goodbye to one of the defining players of the modern era at the club, a footballer whose goals, consistency and status have placed him among the greatest names in its history.

Salah’s Liverpool legacy in numbers

Salah leaves behind a record that explains why this farewell feels so significant. Across his time at Liverpool, the Egyptian has scored 257 goals and helped deliver nine major trophies.

That return places him third on Liverpool’s all-time scoring list, behind only Ian Rush and Roger Hunt. It also underlines the scale of his impact across multiple cycles of the team, from title challenges to silverware wins and European nights that helped define the club under Jürgen Klopp and beyond.

His honours haul includes two Premier League titles and a Champions League triumph, but the broader picture is just as important. Salah has been the face of Liverpool’s attack for the better part of a decade, combining elite output with remarkable durability.

At 33, he departs as a player who did not just produce standout seasons. He sustained world-class standards over time, which is usually the clearest sign of a genuine great.

‘I’m blessed’ by the Anfield connection

Speaking in the Liverpool film Salah: Farewell to the King, Salah made it clear that while records and trophies matter, his bond with supporters sits above everything else.

“It means to me everything.

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You live in the club, you feel the love and appreciation from the fans. This is the most important thing, people appreciate what you have done and appreciate everything you’ve done for them and for yourself.

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So, this is the most important thing.

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It feels special. I’m blessed. Not too many people had the opportunity to play here nine years and perform how I performed or just enjoy or go through the process that I’ve been through.

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So, it’s a blessing and something I don’t take for granted.”

There is a directness to those comments that fits the moment. Salah is not framing his goodbye around uncertainty or business. He is framing it around attachment.

That matters because the relationship between elite players and supporters can often feel transactional by the end. In Salah’s case, the language points to something deeper. He is leaving as both a club icon and a player who still feels emotionally tied to the place.

Family ties that will outlast the transfer

Salah’s next destination has yet to be confirmed, but he offered another revealing detail when discussing how his family views Liverpool.

He said the club, the city and the people will always matter to him, and joked that his children have no intention of switching allegiances when he moves on.

“The club means everything. The people mean everything, the city means everything. I will always love this club. I will always support it.

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My kids will always support it and even when I talk to them now, I tell them like, we’re leaving Liverpool, they say, ‘Well, we’re going to support the club even when you leave.’

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I say, ‘We’re not going to support my new club?’ They say, ‘No, we love Liverpool. We’re going to support Liverpool. We’re not going to support anything else.’”

Those lines land because they capture how fully Liverpool has shaped this period of his life. For many top-level players, clubs are chapters. For Salah, Liverpool clearly became home.

That distinction helps explain why this exit feels more personal than procedural. Supporters are not simply saying goodbye to a scorer of goals. They are saying goodbye to a player who, by his own account, absorbed the club and city into his family life.

One final objective against Brentford

The farewell will not unfold in a vacuum. Liverpool still have work to do on the pitch.

A point against Brentford would secure qualification for next season’s Champions League, which offers Salah the chance to sign off with one final contribution to a major objective. Even if Liverpool were to slip, their superior goal difference over sixth-placed Bournemouth leaves them in a strong position.

Still, the equation is simple enough:

• Avoid defeat against Brentford and Liverpool are in the Champions League.
• A loss would leave the door open, but goal difference gives Liverpool a clear cushion.
• Salah’s final game is therefore both a farewell and a high-stakes final step in the season.

That blend of sentiment and jeopardy should shape the atmosphere at Anfield. There will be the emotion of the occasion, but also the practical demand for a result.

Why this goodbye carries real weight

Every big club says farewell to great players. Not every goodbye feels quite this loaded.

Salah’s Liverpool story is easy to measure statistically, but numbers only explain part of it. He arrived as an explosive forward with something to prove and leaves as a player woven into the club’s modern identity. His goals delivered titles, his reliability carried attacks through multiple seasons, and his presence helped define an era in English and European football.

There is also a wider significance to his status. Salah became one of the Premier League’s most influential forwards and one of the most recognisable footballers in the world while wearing a Liverpool shirt. That elevated both his own profile and the club’s image globally.

In practical football terms, replacing his production will be difficult enough. Replacing the symbolism is harder. Liverpool can recruit another attacker. They cannot easily recreate nine years of trust, shared memory and big-match delivery.

Anfield’s last word

If Sunday does prove to be his final Liverpool appearance, the occasion is likely to be shaped by appreciation more than regret.

Salah is not limping toward the end as a fading figure. He is leaving with his reputation secure, his place in club history beyond dispute and his connection with supporters openly acknowledged by both sides.

That is why his own description of feeling "blessed" rings true. Very few players get to leave a club of Liverpool’s size with their legacy this clear.

Whether the final image is a goal, a wave to the crowd or simply the sound of Anfield marking the end of an era, Salah’s farewell already feels set apart. Liverpool are losing one of the great forwards of the Premier League era, and Sunday will offer supporters one last chance to say goodbye to a player who turned elite output into lasting affection.

For Salah, the message is straightforward. Records matter. Trophies matter. But the bond with Liverpool supporters is what he says will stay with him most.

That may be the clearest sign of all that this is not just the end of a contract. It is the end of a genuine football relationship that mattered on both sides.