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Mohamed Salah has moved on from Liverpool, nine years after arriving there from Roma. Salah made history along the way with his goalscoring exploits, but unfortunately won’t be coming back to Roma. Trabzonspor are his next team instead. Nevertheless, who are the players with the most goals at the club they joined (in a permanent transfer, not a loan) immediately after Roma? Not counting players who were only on loan at Roma – ruling out Francesco Tavano (who scored 54 goals next at Livorno) and Borja Mayoral (who has 44 to his name at the time of writing for Getafe) – here are the top 10. 10. Thomas Häßler (Karlsruher) – 44 A World Cup winner on Italian soil with Germany in 1990, Häßler took his chance to come to Serie A that summer by joining Juventus from FC Köln, but made the switch to Roma a year later. The attacking midfielder scored 14 goals across three seasons with Roma, before returning to his home country in 1994 with Karlsruher, who made him their record signing. Häßler spent four years with Karlsruher before they were relegated from the Bundesliga. He scored 44 goals in the process from 157 games, but wasn’t among the scorers when his side knocked Roma out of the 1996-97 UEFA Cup. 9. Alejandro Scopelli (Racing Club) – 44 Scopelli arrived at Roma from Estudiantes in his native Argentina in 1933, but fled Italy two years later along with compatriots Enrique Guaita and Andrés Stagnaro to avoid being drafted into the Italian army. All three ended up at Racing Club de Avellaneda next. While Guaita had been the more effective goalscorer for Roma, Scopelli scored more for Racing Club. He found the net 44 times before returning to Europe with French side Red Star in 1938. 8. Daniele Conti (Cagliari) – 51 He may have been the son of one of Roma’s best ever players, but Daniele Conti’s destiny lied away from the capital. After playing just six times for Roma, Conti joined Cagliari at the age of 20 in 1999. He would remain there for the rest of his career until he retired at 36. A midfielder, Conti scored 51 goals for Cagliari (four more than his father Bruno scored for Roma, albeit in 62 more games). In a twist of fate, Roma were the opponent he scored most against (five times). 7. Žan Celar (Lugano) – 51 Celar’s only appearance for Roma was as a late substitute in the first game of Claudio Ranieri’s second spell in charge of the club, in March 2019. Otherwise mainly a Primavera player, even though he had made a senior appearance for Maribor before joining the club, the Slovenian striker had loan spells with Cittadella and Cremonese before signing permanently for Lugano. His time in Switzerland was fruitful. Celar had only scored seven goals across his two loan spells, but scored 14 in his first season with Lugano. Improved tallies of 16 and 21 in the next two seasons earned him a move to Queens Park Rangers, where goals became harder to come by. 6. Carlo Galli (AC Milan) – 57 Galli joined Roma ahead of their only season in Serie B, scoring 12 goals to help them straight back up to the top flight before staying for another four seasons and finishing his spell with the club on 55 goals. He managed to go two better over the next five years, which he spent with AC Milan – who won the league in his first and third seasons there. 5. Herbert Prohaska (Austria Wien) – 59 Prohaska started and ended his career with Austria Wien, spending time in Italy with Inter and Roma in between. His only season with Roma was when they won the Scudetto in 1982-83, a campaign in which the midfielder scored five goals across all competitions. He then returned to Vienna, scoring 59 goals in his second spell with the club (13 fewer than his first stint) over the course of six years. 4. Giampaolo Menichelli (Juventus) – 59 Born in Rome, Menichelli got his first-team breakthrough with Roma after loan spells at Sambenedettese and Parma, becoming part of the squad that won the 1960-61 Inter-Cities Fairs Cup. In 1963, the winger moved on to Juventus, where he would spend the next six years, making 194 appearances and scoring 59 goals. His time in Turin included one Scudetto and one Coppa Italia. 3. Roberto Muzzi (Cagliari) – 64 A Roma academy graduate, Muzzi scored 12 goals at senior level for the club. All but two of those came before a loan spell in Serie B with Pisa. His next stop as a permanent move was Cagliari, whom he signed for in November 1994 and stayed with until 1999. Muzzi scored 64 goals for Cagliari, who were in Serie A for all but one of his five years there. He was later added to their Hall of Fame. 2. Patrik Schick (Bayer Leverkusen) – 103 Schick was an unmitigated disaster of a signing for Roma, scoring only eight goals across two seasons despite arriving for a record fee. The Czech striker found his feet again on loan with RB Leipzig in the 2019-20 season before settling in Germany for good with a permanent move to Bayer Leverkusen. Schick is still there now, recently concluding his sixth season with the club. It was also the one in which he reached the milestone of scoring 100 goals for them. Schick became a Bundesliga champion in 2023-24, although he only scored seven goals in the league that season. In contrast, there have been two seasons in which he has scored more than 20 in the league. 1. Mohamed Salah (Liverpool) – 257 Roma knew Salah was capable of creating havoc in front of goal, having scored 15 goals in his first season with the club and 19 in his second. He spent hours working on his finishing with Luciano Spalletti in training to reach his potential. But it turned out his potential was at an even higher level. After he joined Liverpool in 2017, Salah reached remarkable standards. In his first season alone, he scored 44 goals, including a couple against Roma in the Champions League. He never scored that many in a season again, but his tallies were still impressive: 27, 23, 31, 31, 30, 25 and 34, before only scoring 12 in his final season at Liverpool. Four times a Premier League golden boot winner, Salah finished his Liverpool career in 2026 on 257 goals, making him their third highest scorer of all time.