Liverpool won the league that year. Liverpool’s trio of strikers, Sadio Mane, Roberto Firmino and Mohamed Salah, have set a tournament record with their total of 29 goals. Among the players Paisley signed for Liverpool were Kenny Dalglish, Ian Rush, Alan Hansen, Graeme Souness and the redoubtable Phil Neal, who today possesses four European Cup winner’s medals. Despite winning a treble of League, League Cup and European Cup in 1984, Graeme Souness says: “The 1978/79 season was sensational. The success of Mane, Firmino and Salah is in keeping with Liverpool’s enviable tradition of nurturing prolific goalscorers.

Source: Irish Independent May 26, 2018 09:56 UTC