{"id":27428,"date":"2026-03-25T12:25:49","date_gmt":"2026-03-25T12:25:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/mohamed-salah-who-is-the-premier-leagues-greatest-forward\/"},"modified":"2026-03-25T12:25:49","modified_gmt":"2026-03-25T12:25:49","slug":"mohamed-salah-who-is-the-premier-leagues-greatest-forward","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/mohamed-salah-who-is-the-premier-leagues-greatest-forward\/","title":{"rendered":"Mohamed Salah: Who is the Premier League’s greatest forward?"},"content":{"rendered":"


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Mohamed Salah’s <\/b>Liverpool<\/b><\/a> career is coming to an end.<\/b><\/p>\n

After nine years, 435 appearances and 255 goals for the Reds, Salah has announced this will be his last season at Anfield.<\/p>\n

Liverpool<\/a>‘s third-highest scorer of all time will undoubtedly leave as one of the Reds’ greatest players, but where does he rank in terms of Premier League icon status?<\/p>\n

BBC Sport looks at some of the league’s best-ever forwards and asks you to decide where he ranks. As always, this is not an exhaustive list.<\/p>\n

Do you judge them purely on goals, maybe it is their contribution to their teams, their success or all-round involvement?<\/p>\n

There is plenty for you to get your head around before ranking them below.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n


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Mohamed Salah’s Liverpool career is coming to an end. After nine years, 435 appearances and 255 goals for the Reds, Salah has announced this will be his last season at Anfield. Liverpool‘s third-highest scorer of all time will undoubtedly leave as one of the Reds’ greatest players, but where does he rank in terms of […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":27429,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[21,18],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-27428","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-sport-africa","category-world-sport"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27428","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=27428"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27428\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":27430,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27428\/revisions\/27430"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/27429"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=27428"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=27428"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=27428"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}