On Monday, credible journalists in The Athletic and The Times reported that Mohamed Salah wants to stay at Liverpool next season, and that there is a desire from the club’s side to keep the Egyptian top scorer. David Lynch writes in an article for This Is Anfield that he is sitting on the same information, but that at the same time it cannot be completely ruled out that the man who turns 32 this summer will not be leaving.
The new sporting director Richard Hughes can probably also expect tough contract negotiations with Salah and his agent Ramy Abbas Issa. Lynch writes that Salah wants to extend the contract, which runs until 2025, by at least one year. The question is whether Liverpool will agree to it, all the while Salah is clearly the club’s best-paid player with 350,000 pounds a week, and in addition has shown failing form in the last period.
An alternative could be to let the contract run its course and let Salah leave the club for Bosman next summer, something the club has shown that they are no strangers to doing with big stars, but it will also be interesting to see what the club does if it comes new bids from Saudi Arabia.
Could there be new Saudi bids?
Last summer, the club turned down bids of up to £150 million for their big star, and it has paid off in the form of 37 goals this season. In the Premier League, there are only two players who have more than Salah’s 26 goal points – and that despite the fact that he has only started 25 games.
“But even if there was no doubt on the part of the club about rejecting the bids last year, they will surely admit that the matter is somewhat more complicated this time.”
Salah is probably the one the Saudi Pro League would most like to bring to their series, but the attacking player has a desire to play at the highest level for as long as possible, and has never indicated that he wants a transfer to the league Jordan Henderson, Fabinho, Roberto Firmino, Sadio Mané and Gini Wijnaldum joined last summer.
We’ll likely see Salah lead Liverpool’s attack when Arne Slot is on the sidelines next season. Then it becomes a question of what happens when we write in the summer of 2025.
Incidentally, Trent Alexander-Arnold and Virgil van Dijk are out of contract in 2025, so Hughes faces a busy summer!
