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Mohamed Salah has set his sights on overhauling Ian Rush as Liverpool's record goalscorer in a single season – but would happily exchange the Premier League's Golden Boot for a Champions League winners' medal.

Salah became only the third player to score 40 goals for the Reds in one campaign – following Rush and Roger Hunt – when netting in the 3-0 win over Bournemouth on Saturday.

Rush holds the overall record when scoring 47 times in the 1983-84 campaign, while Hunt's best tally was the 42 he managed in 1961-62.

Salah reached the 40-goal landmark in only 45 games, quicker than either of the former strikers.

And with Liverpool having at least six more games remaining – four in the Premier League and two in the Champions League semi-final against former club Roma – the Egyptian wants to chase down Rush's record tally.

“It’s also very close, it’s just seven goals,” said Salah. “But let’s see! It’s still, I don’t know how many games there is to go, but we have the Premier League and semi-finals of the Champions League to play.

“I will try my best to score again and help the team.

“Scoring 40 goals means a lot. But even in the end I said it... I try to score every game to help the team. To get the points.

“That is the most important thing for us, that we play as a team, we play as 11 players. So each goal for me, or for anyone else is to try to help the team.”

On being told he scored 40 goals quicker than any other player in Liverpool's history, Salah responded: “It’s a great feeling. Of course it’s a great feeling. But you know I said in the end I am happy to score, happy to help the team, that’s it.”

Salah needs only one goal to equal the Premier League record of 31 goals scored in a 38-game season held by Alan Shearer, Cristiano Ronaldo and former Liverpool forward Luis Suarez.

He has moved five ahead of Tottenham Hotspur forward Harry Kane in the race for this season's Golden Boot as top scorer, and the Egyptian admitted: “Of course it is in my mind. Of course I cannot lie – it is in my mind.

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“But you know, you can see (on Saturday) with the team everyone tries to pass the ball to me to help me.

“I am also sure that Tottenham’s players try to help Harry Kane, and also Manchester City’s try to help Sergio Aguero. It’s like that, but in the end we play as a team.

“Do I want my team-mates to pass the ball more? Yes, but they pass the ball anyway!

“I am happy to have this feeling, you know. You feel they want to support you and want to help you to score goals. That’s a good feeling.”

Salah raised an eyebrow last week when he tweeted “Wooooooow really?” after Kane won his controversial appeal to claim Tottenham's winner against Stoke City.

Addressing the matter, a laughing Salah replied: “I don’t want to say anything about that! I don’t want anything about that.

“In the end they said it’s his goal so it’s finished for me. Now we still have four (Premier League) games and they have five or six games so I have to think about my games and we see.”

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Salah has enjoyed the most profitable debut campaign of any Liverpool player, with his goalscoring exploits all the more remarkable given it took him 83 games to score 34 times for Roma.

“You know you can see with Bobby Firmino, he scores a lot of goals this season,” he said. “It’s also a different season for him.

“I think the way we play it gives us more chances to score. The way we play helps us a lot to be in front of the goal all the time. So that’s the way we play, it helps us a lot.”

Both Salah and Firmino have netted eight times in the Champions League this season, equalling the record for most goals scored by a Liverpool player in one European campaign.

And when asked if he'd sooner have personal accolades or his hands on the European Cup in Kiev on May 26, Salah doesn't hesitate with his answer.

“To win the Champions League,” he said. “If you had a choice, then of course the Champions League.

“To win the Champions League is ‘whissssshhhh’. To win the Champions League is huge for everyone. I don’t care about the rest.”