Jürgen Klopp saluted the relentless output of Mohamed Salah after another record-breaking goal for the Liverpool No.11 on Thursday night.
Salah came off the bench in the second half of the Europa League tie with Toulouse and found the net at the Kop end in stoppage time to wrap up a 5-1 win.
The strike moved the Egyptian up to 43 goals in major European competitions for the Reds – the most of any player for an English club.
It was a ninth goal of 2023-24 in all competitions for Salah, who is now just five away from 200 in total since his Liverpool arrival in 2017.
Speaking at his pre-Nottingham Forest press conference, Klopp was quizzed about the forward’s current confidence, adapting game and longevity…
On whether there is an extra level of confidence to Salah’s play at the moment…
Yes, it’s obvious that he just enjoys the group. I think that’s an obvious thing. If you saw him on the bench, he wants to play, always! But he enjoyed as well watching the other boys, and then coming on and scoring the goal. I’m really happy for him. Of course he’s [been] an adult man already for a long time now, but he is growing with the role he has for us, and in football maybe in general. To show that to stay on [the] top level, it’s nice to enjoy the moment and then you go again – and that’s what he obviously is doing.
It was a wonderful goal, a really good goal. I didn’t know about the records, maybe he would have broken a few more records if I would be more into that, because I think I left him out once when he could have broken a record! It was not intentional, I’m just not too much in this. He broke the record tonight. If not tonight, he would have broken it next week or in two weeks, three weeks, that’s clear. He’s just such a good player. We appreciate him, and everybody will appreciate him for sure even more after his career because then you will realise, ‘Wow, we saw something really special’.
