When Mohamed Salah runs out at Anfield one last time on Sunday against Brentford, he will close a chapter that redefined what a footballer can achieve at a single club. The full weight of his legacy may only settle in the years ahead, but the evidence of his greatness is already overwhelming.

Numbers that defy belief

Salah departs Liverpool with 257 goals — more than club legends Sir Kenny Dalglish, Robbie Fowler, Michael Owen, and Steven Gerrard. Only Ian Rush (346) and Roger Hunt (285) have scored more for the Merseyside club in its entire history.

Add 119 assists to those goals and Salah's record becomes almost surreal: a goal involvement every 94 minutes, totalling 376 across 35,326 minutes of football. No overseas player in the history of the Premier League has scored more than his 193 goals in the competition. No player has more goal involvements — 283 — for a single club in the league's history.

"Mohamed knew what he had to do to become a Liverpool legend and he took it to a different level," said Rush, Liverpool's all-time leading scorer. "It's not just goals; you look at the number of assists and he's a complete footballer."

A journey from Nagrig to global icon

Salah's story begins in Nagrig, a village in rural Egypt, and ends — at least at Liverpool — as one of the greatest players ever to represent one of the world's greatest clubs. Liverpool signed him from Roma in 2017 for £34 million, a deal met with scepticism given his earlier struggles at Chelsea. Those doubts evaporated almost immediately.

Manager Jurgen Klopp, speaking to BBC Sport in March, reflected on what set Salah apart from the moment he arrived. "He set completely new standards for a professional football player — how hard you can work, how much you can invest in recovery and everything," Klopp said.

On his debut, a 3-3 draw at Watford on 12 August 2017, Klopp's half-time message to a trailing Liverpool side was blunt: "Welcome to the Premier League." Salah scored in the second half alongside Sadio Mané and Roberto Firmino — a glimpse of the devastating trio that would follow.

The fearsome front three

Salah, Mané, and Firmino spent five years operating on a wavelength of their own, sweeping up trophies and earning admirers worldwide. Even rival manager Pep Guardiola admitted: "They scare me, they're dangerous."

The relationship between Salah and Mané was never warm off the pitch, though both players pushed each other to personal peaks. Firmino described himself as the "firefighter" when tensions threatened to spill over. Those inside the club believe that competitive edge was precisely what drove both men to greatness.

The end of an era

Salah had been expected to remain at Liverpool until next summer, but the relationship with head coach Arne Slot broke down following a high-profile outburst at Leeds in December — sparked by three successive appearances from the bench after a run of 53 consecutive Premier League starts. The club and Salah ultimately agreed to terminate his contract a year early, allowing him to leave on a free transfer this summer.

His next destination remains unconfirmed.

Liverpool captain Virgil van Dijk paid tribute to Salah's leadership by example. "Mo is not a big talker, but obviously he's a leader by example. So it's those types of things I'm 100% going to miss," he said.

Human moments behind the legend

This season brought profound grief to the Liverpool squad with the death of Diogo Jota in July. Salah was visibly moved at Anfield during the club's first match after the tragedy, a reminder that the icon is, above all, human. "Until yesterday, I never thought there would be something that would frighten me of going back to Liverpool after the break," Salah wrote at the time.

At his peak, Salah drew comparisons with Lionel Messi and Cristiano Ronaldo. In his debut Liverpool season he recorded 58 goal involvements at a rate of one every 71 minutes. Last season, he produced 57 — one every 79 minutes. That level of consistency across nearly eight years stands as one of the most remarkable sustained performances the modern game has seen.

For Klopp, the defining shared memory is the 2019 UEFA Champions League final victory over Tottenham in Madrid — the first major trophy either man won at the club, secured 12 months after the painful defeat to Real Madrid in Kyiv. Sunday's farewell against Brentford will be a far quieter occasion, but no less significant. The Egyptian king's reign at Anfield is over.