“‘That will never happen to me again’: A fellow Liverpool legend shares Mo Salah’s toughest moment”
Liverpool’s top goalscorer, Ian Rush, recently shared what Liverpool legend Mohamed Salah told him after going through one of his hardest times.
This weekend, Salah will say goodbye to an amazing nine years at Anfield, during which he helped Liverpool win two Premier League titles and bring home Champions League glory again.
The Egyptian star grabbed four Golden Boots, two Playmaker Awards, and a record three PFA Players’ Player of the Year trophies while playing for Liverpool.
When Salah joined Liverpool in the summer of 2017, many called him a ‘Chelsea reject,’ but he had reinvented himself during his time in Italy with Roma.
His time at Chelsea didn’t go well, as he fell out of favour with manager Jose Mourinho and decided to move to Italy to escape the criticism in England.
Salah came back to the Premier League determined to prove himself, reaching new heights at Liverpool in the 2017/18 season.
He smashed the English top-flight goalscoring record, scoring 32 goals in the Premier League and 10 more in Europe, leading Liverpool to a Champions League final against Real Madrid.
Salah scored 44 goals and made 16 assists that season, creating one of the best individual performances in football – but the season ended in heartbreak.
In the final, he was forced off the pitch early after a clash with Real Madrid defender Sergio Ramos.
Salah suffered a serious shoulder injury, which forced him to leave the game, and Liverpool eventually lost 3-1 to Real Madrid.
In a new Liverpool documentary, Salah reveals he didn’t watch the rest of the match and went straight to the hospital instead.
Ian Rush, Liverpool’s highest goalscorer ever, shared what Salah told him after the injury and how it helped the team achieve huge success under manager Jurgen Klopp.
Rush said: “When Mo got injured by Sergio Ramos in the Champions League final in Kyiv, he told me, ‘That’s never going to happen to me again.’”
“He changed his training to get stronger, adding more yoga and core workouts. A year later, in the next final in Madrid against Tottenham, I had barely sat down when Mo scored the opening goal,” Rush explained.
Salah will be remembered not only for his incredible goal numbers but also for his amazing fitness, hardly ever getting injured during his time at Liverpool before his latest season.
Between 2017 and 2025, he missed just eight games because of injuries, leading Liverpool to many victories.
Salah admits he finds it hard to watch the injury again and usually stops the video whenever it comes up online, as revealed in Liverpool’s farewell documentary.
Even though it was a tough moment, that injury helped shape Salah’s future success at Liverpool and became a turning point for the superstar and the club.