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You will struggle to find any unaware backside set-ups in the forward’s eye-catching catalogue.

Salah now has 30 goals and 22 assists for the season from just 39 appearances as his astonishing campaign continues.

Meanwhile, he has scored 25 times in the Premier League and set up 17 goals from 28 league appearances, to comfortably lead both the Golden Boot and Playmaker award charts.

The 32-year-old has scored five more times than reigning Golden Boot winner Erling Haaland, who trails in second-place, while he has an eye-catching seven assists more than Bukayo Saka, Mikkel Damsgaard and Antonee Robinson.

Salah has always wowed with his devastatingly consistent goalscoring returns, with his most recent goal against Man City last weekend his 241st for Liverpool to incredibly move him third in the club’s all-time scoring charts alongside Gordon Hodgson.

But he is climbing up the assists charts at an eye-catching rate of knots too.

According to LFC History’s annals, starting from the 1945/46 season, the Egyptian is now sixth in the rankings behind Kenny Dalglish, Steven Gerrard, Billy Liddell, Ian Callaghan and Alan A’Court.

And having broken Steve McManaman’s record for most Premier League assists for the Reds in a season (15) against Man City last weekend, Salah is now quickly closing in on Dalglish’s record in all competitions of 24 from 1980/81 and 1984/85.

It has long been joked that Liverpool’s Egyptian King must have broken the record for records broken during his time at Anfield, and plenty more will certainly fall in the remaining months of the campaign.

He needs to record only four assists from the final 10 Premier League matches of the season to break Thierry Henry and Kevin De Bruyne’s shared record of 20.

While slightly more unrealistic, 11 goals would also see him reclaim his record for most goals in a Premier League season alongside Haaland.

Salah is also likely to win his fourth Golden Boot this season, which would see him move level with Alan Shearer as the players to have won it the most times.

Clean up at the end of season awards, and the 32-year-old could also end up becoming the player to have won both PFA Player’s Player of the Year and FWA Footballer of the Year awards more times than anyone else.

Admittedly, such individual honours are a footnote for the forward, with the Egyptian much more interested in getting his hands on a second Premier League and Champions League title.

But assists do mean something to him, as he explained to TNT Sports ahead of facing Newcastle.

Cody, Lucho, other players, their season is the best - so, I think this is my best season because I make the players around me also better.”

It is partly because of Salah’s record-breaking returns this season that Liverpool are enjoying such a remarkable campaign.

But not reliant on the Egyptian’s goals alone, his assists are evidently also making a crucial difference as the Reds close in on an increasingly-likely Premier League title win.

It goes without saying that Salah could not disagree more with Postecoglou's claim, with Arne Slot and all those of a Liverpool persuasion instead most-impressed by the Egyptian's returns this season.

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But perhaps assists aren't as important when you're 13th in the Premier League table.
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