Why Alexander Isak Will Love Playing With Mohamed Salah

And it's more specific than Salah being one of the greatest players in the history of the Premier League.

Liverpool have signed Alexander Isak. Exciting, isn’t it?

The legendary front three of Roberto Firmino, Sadio Mané and Mohamed Salah was constructed over a period of three summers. With Hugo Ekitike and Florian Wirtz accompanying Isak, the Reds have compacted a similar process into three months.

Other situations have changed too. When Liverpool made Virgil van Dijk and Alisson Becker the most expensive players in their respective positions, they were able to do so thanks to selling a key man for a windfall amount. In 2025, the Reds signed the three most expensive players that moved anywhere in the world this summer simply because they could.

FSG spent roughly £300m to acquire Liverpool. They have since built the club to the point they could drop more than that on three men in rapid succession. It’s a remarkable state of affairs, even allowing for inflation across 15 years.

Isak is the biggest signing of the trio for reasons other than finance. He has Premier League experience, is peak age and has been extracted from the kingdom of Geordie Arabia. The Swede also possesses a showreel that should be BAFTA-nominated.

Not that you need to watch this video. You follow Liverpool, you follow the Premier League. You’ve already seen all this compilation can show, if not so neatly packaged before.

There is no need to pore over Isak’s statistics either. He’s a superstar. He put up similar underlying numbers to Kylian Mbappé over the last year when playing for the side that finished fifth. That’s hot.

A better avenue of analysis is to look at how Isak was able to be so productive. A similar line of thinking led to this article on Wirtz:

Florian Wirtz's Leverkusen link-up which outdid Firmino and Salah

Along with Patrik Schick he formed one of the two leading assist-scorer pairs in Europe’s big five leagues in 2024/25, producing seven goals. The other line with such potency flowed through Jacob Murphy to Isak.

Seven goals tops the most any Liverpool combination has put on record in a league campaign since at least 2009/10. Never mind what Bobby, Sadio and Mo could do, Isak delivered more in tandem with Murphy. Did I mention Newcastle finished fifth?

Murphy played on the right of the attack. Which is where Salah, winner of the Premier League Playmaker of the Season award in two of the last four seasons, is found. Can the Egyptian set up his new colleague in similar style to help him settle? Let’s have a look.