Mohamed Salah has spent the season smashing records but he has done very little in the way of talking.
Usually, Liverpool’s No11 breezes through Anfield’s mixed zone without wanting to conduct interviews – he has been asked after every home game, usually turning down requests with the words “next time!” – but he made a promise that if he reached 40 goals for the season, he would stop to talk.
After hitting that target against Bournemouth, Salah was true to his word. In the time he spent with the national media, he outlined his ambition to break a club record, what has helped him achieve such blistering form and why he would swap it all if it meant he could win the Champions League.