Mohamed Salah’s Liverpool future is at the moment one of many key narratives at Anfield.
The Egyptian icon is now into the ultimate yr of his Liverpool contract, with the participant himself admitted earlier this month that that is his ‘final season’, following his match-winning flip towards Manchester United at Previous Trafford.
Salah turned 32 in the summertime however has begun the season in blistering vogue, scoring three targets and helping three extra in Liverpool’s first 4 Premier League matches.
The winger is one in all three key gamers, alongside skipper Virgil van Dijk and Trent Alexander-Arnold to have entered the ultimate yr of their respective Anfield offers, with earlier studies claiming that new sporting director Richard Hughes is engaged on new contracts for the trio.
However in accordance with TEAMtalk, there “an expectation” at Liverpool that this may certainly be Salah’s closing season with the membership, with the participant prone to make his long-mooted transfer to the Saudi Professional League subsequent summer time.
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Liverpool beforehand rejected a £150 million bid for Salah from Al-Ittihad in the summertime 2023 switch window, with Saudi chiefs able to make Salah one of many best-paid gamers ever as they appear to make him the face of the SPL.
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A brand new Liverpool deal is ‘not not possible, however unlikely’ the report provides after contract discussions lately happened. It additionally claims that Alexander-Arnold is extra prone to signal a contract extension, slightly than depart on a free switch subsequent summer time, regardless of curiosity from Actual Madrid.
In FourFourTwo’s opinion, if Salah has his coronary heart set on a transfer to Saudi Arabia, Liverpool merely will be unable to compete financially. Questions might be requested in regards to the logic of turning down £150m final summer time if Salah does go for nothing in 2025, but when he retains up his early-season type, there isn’t any purpose why he can’t finish on a excessive.
Salah is price €55m, as per Transfermarkt. The Egyptian has scored 214 instances in 354 video games for the Reds.
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