'Something I'll never forget'

On last season...

I think we had a great season and I also had my best season in the club, maybe in my career as well. To win the league, I'm glad we managed to do that, and hopefully it will continue this year.

On what motivated him in 2024-25...

Honestly, I found always a way to feel hungry and just need more. This season we have new players, so you also need to give them your experience and try to help them also to grow – that's part of being a footballer. It's always the hunger that really makes me want more.

On whether he thought all this would have been possible when growing up in Egypt...

No! I don't want to lie. Of course I want to be a football player, I just want to be famous and can provide for my family. But you don't think about that big stuff when you are in Egypt or you are still so small. But then when you grow and start to see things different and you start to have ambition then you start to see the bigger picture. All the things I started seeing but not really when I was in Egypt.

On what makes him and Liverpool such a good match, and telling Arne Slot that he'd return a Premier League title...

I think we've been very, very good to each other. And I told the manager that because I believe what I can give him and what I can give the club. He said, 'OK, well I'll put you in situations [where] you can provide numbers.' I did that very well.

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