Mohamed Salah drops to 50th in latest Premier League player rankings
Mohamed Salah has dropped to 50th in the latest Premier League player rankings as the 2025-26 season enters a crucial final month amid thrilling title and relegation battles.
With only weeks remaining, individual brilliance is expected to determine the outcome of a highly competitive campaign.
Arsenal currently lead the table, but Manchester City could close the gap to just three points if Pep Guardiola’s side win their pivotal head-to-head clash this weekend.
Champions League and relegation races
The battle for European qualification remains intensely tight, with only eight points separating third from eighth place.
At the other end of the division, a shocking relegation scrap is unfolding.
Tottenham Hotspur currently sit in the relegation zone in 18th place, trailing West Ham United by two points and Nottingham Forest by three.
Methodology and notable omissions
The newly released top 50 list balances raw individual talent with the actual value provided to teams throughout the current campaign.
Long-term injury absentees have been entirely excluded from the selection process.
This means Hugo Ekitike misses out after the forward suffered a brutal right Achilles rupture.
Before the devastating setback, the lightning-fast attacker was on course to break into the top 10.
Salah slides down the list
Liverpool’s veteran forward barely makes the cut at number 50 after experiencing a significant late-career drop-off.
However, the Egyptian remains a potent attacking threat when analysing underlying metrics.
Only Erling Haaland, Bruno Fernandes, Bukayo Saka and the injured Ekitike have generated more non-penalty expected goals and assists per 90 minutes this term.
Other notable inclusions in the bottom ten of the rankings include Arsenal duo Eberechi Eze and David Raya, alongside Manchester City’s Matheus Nunes.
