Mohamed Salah admits he gave his Golden Boot away after emotional request to Liverpool ace

Mohamed Salah has admitted he gave his Premier League Golden Boot award to his youngest daughter (Image: GETTY)

Mohamed Salah has admitted he gave his Premier League Golden Boot award to his youngest daughter Kayan after she broke down in tears. The Egypt international capped off a fine 2024/25 campaign by landing the prize, before being recognised for his endeavours with the PFA Players' Player of the Year award at the PFA awards dinner in Manchester on Tuesday evening.

Salah enjoyed a scintillating campaign last season as he bagged 29 goals and 18 assists in the Premier League. He helped his team win the title by a staggering 10 points, with runners-up Arsenal unable to keep pace with the Reds as the season progressed. And the 33-year-old is now the joint fourth-highest Premier League goalscorer of all-time alongside Andy Cole, with the duo both bagging 187 goals in the competition.

Salah revealed that Kayan started to cry after he gave his oldest daughter Makka his PFA players' player of the year award.

And sharing the story in a video posted to the Liverpool Instagram page, the former Roma player explained: “When I went home, my oldest said, ‘Oh, I love this one, I’ll keep it in my room.’

“She kept it in the room, and the youngest started to cry. I said, ‘I’ll give you the Golden Boot.’ Seriously, I told her, ‘This is my favourite, go on, take it, take it.’

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Liverpool star Mohamed Salah scored against Bournemouth on the opening night of the season (Image: GETTY)

Salah got off the mark for the first time this season in the closing stages of Liverpool’s opening night victory over Bournemouth last Friday as the Reds left it late to seal the three points.

The winger has been one of the greatest players of the Premier League era and has helped his club win a host of trophies since joining the Reds in 2017.

And after being asked during Tuesday’s ceremony whether he had ambitions to win personal awards when he was growing up, Salah stated: “Of course I wanted to be a football player and I wanted to be famous and provide for my family, but you don't think about the big stuff when you are still in Egypt.

“When you grow, you start to see things differently and you start to have ambition and you start to see the bigger picture.”

But the forward played down his hunger for personal honours during an interview with Liverpool club channels at the end of last season as he said: “I’m just a good winger and I try to do my job.

“As long as we’re winning games and are close to winning trophies, that’s the most important thing.

“When you are scoring goals and you feel like you are involved in most of the games and the team is close to winning big trophies, that’s an unbelievable feeling.”