Gural: Salah’s Arrival Will Boost Onuachu’s Goal Tally

Former Trabzonspor forward Emre Gural believes Super Eagles striker Paul Onuachu will score even more goals for the Turkish club now that Mohamed Salah has joined as a free agent following his Liverpool exit.

Speaking to Turkiyegazetesi, Gural explained the logic behind his prediction. “Paul Onuachu will now receive the ball in a much different way and create different positions,” he said. “Onuachu will create more space because the opposing team’s players will focus on Mohamed Salah. Onuachu is a very good striker with consistency in scoring goals. So, if he finds a little more space thanks to Salah, he can score many different goals.”

Gural framed it as a simple defensive dilemma for Trabzonspor’s opponents. “A player like Salah is a plus for any team. When Salah attacks, the opposing team will be forced to try to take precautions. Otherwise, Salah will finish the match himself. I think that if precautions are taken against Salah, players like Onuachu will find more space,” he concluded.

Salah’s move to Trabzonspor stunned much of European football when it was confirmed this week. The 34 year old signed a two-year contract worth a reported 17 million euros a season, running through 2028, after Liverpool and the Egyptian mutually agreed to terminate his contract a year early following a difficult final campaign at Anfield. Fans following the buildup to Trabzonspor’s new season can check Bet9ja’s current promo code ahead of the Turkish Super Lig kickoff.

Onuachu, for his part, doesn’t need much help finding goals. The Nigerian was the standout performer in the Turkish top flight last season, leading the league in scoring and pushing to break the club’s all time foreign player record for goals in a single Super Lig campaign, a mark of 25 set by Georgian legend Shota Arveladze back in 1995-96. At one stage he ranked second among Europe’s top five leagues for goal involvements, behind only Harry Kane.

His rise at Trabzonspor has been built on patience as much as talent. Onuachu first arrived on loan from Southampton for the 2023/24 season, impressed enough to convince the club to make the move permanent in July 2025, and has only got better since, following an earlier career highlight of 33 goals in a single season for Belgian club Genk. New Bet9ja users following the Nigerian goal machine can check how to get the Bet9ja promotion code before the new campaign gets underway.

Trabzonspor now have two very different attacking threats to build around, a towering, aerially dominant striker in Onuachu and a decorated, world-class wide forward in Salah, whose arrival instantly makes the Black Sea club one of the most talked-about sides in Turkish football this season.

For Nigerian fans, the more intriguing subplot is what it could mean for Onuachu’s numbers if Gural’s theory plays out in practice. Punters tracking the Super Lig this season can check Bet9ja’s YOHAIG code as Trabzonspor’s new-look attack gets going.

Whether or not Salah directly unlocks more space for him, Onuachu heads into the new season as one of the form strikers in European football, and Trabzonspor’s ambitions now look considerably bigger with two genuine match winners leading the line.