The folklore seasons, this is what we will call them. The years that are easily remembered, the points at which the superstars rose to the kingdoms that did not seem plausible.
They are easily remembered. Cristiano Ronaldo (2007-08) and Eric Cantona (1993-94) for Manchester United; Eden Hazard's Force Tour for Chelsea in 2016-17. Neville Southall, with his gravity challenging salvations, was extraordinary for Everton in 1984-85 and what about Thierry Henry for Arsenal in 2001-02?
There are four of those campaigns in Liverpool. Kenny Dalglysh, in 1977-78. After arriving for a British transfer record in Celtic, he played in each of the 62 games of his team, scored 31 times and finished it with the goal against the FC Bruges that assured that the Bob Paisley team retained the Cup of Europe.
Then Ian Rush came, in 1983-84. The only thing he could not win in those 12 months was the Grand National, since 47 goals in 65 openings assured that Liverpool took the League Cup, the League and the European Cup; He collected the FWA and PFA Player of the Year awards, as well as the Golden Boot.
Surely that could never be beaten? Mistaken. John Barnes arrived in 1987-88, playing football as a Brazilian, his glitters and fainting, his change of team of formula one and the ability to see the things that others could never see. He took Liverpool to the title and won the Gongs PFA and FWA.
Finally, but in no way less, Luis Suarez. A divisive character throughout the country, that was safe, what he did during the 2013-14 season challenged logic. There were 31 goals in 37 games, but the Uruguayan brought with him the feeling that if he was at the launch of Liverpool it would be unstoppable.
Mohamed Salah is on the cusp to record the best campaign that any Liverpool fan has seen
The Egyptian king is in a crusade to win the Premier League and is demolishing records
It can either eclipse the incredible 2013-14 season of Luis Suárez, which many experienced observers qualify as the best they have seen
“It was as if it were in a crusade,” said Jordan Henderson once. 'The best way to explain it is that you knew that if you put the ball in a given area for him, he would keep it. Stevie (Gerrard) told me that Luis was the best striker he had played. That kind of fulfillment told you everything.
Players cannot be deceived. If they tell you something away from the cameras and microphones, in a simple conversation, you know that it is the truth and every mention of Suarez at that time came with a gasp or a shake of the head. No one could believe that he belonged to Liverpool.
This observer saw that everything was developed and even now, the moments and performances seem from another world: the four obuses against Norwich when he felt that he had begun his own goal competition of the month; Almost breaking the post in a 5-1 lis of Arsenal with a 30-yard volley.
He played teams like Cardiff, West Brom, Tottenham, Everton, West Ham and Manchester United on his own, wrapped the defenders in knots and the greatest certainty of all was that he would do what Barnes and Rush did when collecting the FWA and the double PFA .
Liverpool won nothing, but that never diluted the Majesty of Suárez. Many experienced observers will tell you that it is the best individual season of a player in the history of Anfield, who says something when we see what are the reference points. He shouldn't have eclipsed, but then Mo Salah appeared.
When it comes to a Liverpool stature club, he knows the huge names and achievements that remain high and proud and there was another wink in Manchester on Sunday when Salah was leveled with Gordon Hodgson, a goal machine before the second World War, in 241.
Hodgson was born in South Africa and became a fast testher for Lancashire. Like Billy Liddell, Hodgson registered numbers that seemed almost surely try beyond modern generation. If Michael Owen, Robbie Fowler and Steven Gerrard couldn't approach him, how could anyone else?
However, here we are. Salah is there and is on the way to assemble the best work of a Liverpool player in a single campaign. There was a potential for this to happen in 2021-22, but it was never the same in the match after Egypt lost two great games against Senegal in a matter of weeks.
Kenny Dalglysh had the first 'folklore season' in Liverpool in 1977-78, raising the European Cup
Ian Rush had next iconic season in 1983-84, scoring 47 goals and winning three trophies
John Barnes took Liverpool to the 1987-88 title and won individual praise for a supreme year
There are no drugs of penalty sho in the AFCon final and the World Cup qualifier marked Salah when Liverpool tried to win a quadruple, but ended with 'Only' the League Cup and the FA Cup; Yes, there were important objectives, but did not play with the same Pizzazz after returning from Cameroon.
Now? Like Suárez, he is in a crusade to win the Premier League. Sometimes you look at Salah in a game and you wonder what effect it is having but, while walking with your hands inside the sleeves, you know it is like a great cat, tiptoe through the long grass, hoping to jump.
Sunday in Manchester marked the eleventh time he got and helped in a game and the numbers that are available are difficult to process. In this way, if you write and help Newcastle on Wednesday, it will coincide with the Total Gate implementations of Suárez 43 of 11 years ago.
They are also available to Alan Shearer, who was the strength of the Blackburn nature in 1994-95 when he had 47 objectives of objectives; He shares that record with Andy Cole (1993-94), although both accumulated their counts in 42 seasons of the Premier League of play.
He played things after the Pep Guardiola team had been fired, insisting that he was not looking for later, but does not believe a word. Salah knows all the numbers and exactly what is at stake and that is why he was on an exercise bicycle in a pool on Sunday night, recovering.
His influence on the Liverpool team has been enormous, in terms of how he takes care of himself, what he eats and what he does to stay in the best possible way. But then there is the other side of this and what Liverpool has done for him.
When Salah was a teammate of Micah Richards in Fiorentina 10 years ago, the couple used Hero in Anfield.
Not only Salah has done that: it is on the cusp to record the best campaign that any Liverpool fan has seen.