Mo Salah: The Greatest FPL Player of All Time?
He’s leaving. And he’s leaving as arguably the greatest FPL player in history. In 2024/25, Mo Salah finished on 344 Fantasy Premier League points - smashing the previous record by 41 points. The previous record, incidentally, was also his. That tells you everything you need to know about Mohamed Salah and what nine seasons at Liverpool meant for your FPL team.
The Record That Says It All
When he arrived in the summer of 2017, managers didn’t quite know what they had. By Christmas, they did. By the end of that first season - 303 points, a record that stood until he broke it himself - the debate was already starting. Has there ever been a better FPL asset than Mohamed Salah? Nine seasons later, the answer is no. The numbers make it definitive.
The Personality Test
Think about what he meant to your team-building decisions. How many times did you start a season with Salah already pencilled in, non-negotiable, before you’d even looked at the fixtures? How many times did you agonise over captaining him in a blank, backed down, and watched him score a hat-trick? How many times did you finally sell him and immediately regret it? Owning Salah wasn’t just a fantasy football decision - it was a personality test.
He Didn’t Just Score Points. He Reshaped Strategy.
Before Salah, the conventional wisdom was to spread your budget across the pitch. After that first season, an entire generation of FPL managers learned to back the elite forward and build the rest of the team around him. He didn’t just score points. He reshaped strategy.
The Numbers Don’t Lie
He is the only player to have delivered 200 or more points in eight successive seasons - double the longest run of any other player. He contributed to 47 goals in 2024/25, with 28 goals and 19 assists. He won the Golden Boot. He captained your team more times than you can count.
The Greatest FPL Player of All Time?
Is he the greatest FPL player of all time? The counter-arguments exist - Thierry Henry’s 2003/04 season, Harry Kane’s consistency, Erling Haaland’s debut campaign. But none of them sustained it for nine seasons at this level. None of them became as central to the FPL conversation for as long, or as consistently rewarded the managers who trusted them. When the full history of the game is written, Salah’s chapter will be the longest.
We honoured Mo the only way we know how
Following his final season at Liverpool, we created The King of FPL mug. Our personal tribute to our King.
