The Liverpool trio is being called “the big elephants in the room” no one wants to talk about. Van Dijk, Alexander-Arnold, Salah are all on expiring contracts, all considered key players behind Liverpool’s success under Klopp, continued by Slot. Only three months before the contract expires, there are finally good signals from Anfield.
Salah was brought in from Roma in 2017 for £36.9 million. Now the Egyptian superstar stands with an incredible 243 goals in 392 games in the red shirt, the third highest scoring player in club history. Last month, Salah’s buddy Dejan Lovren was asked if he knew if it was going to be extended. The former Liverpool giant used the words “closer to a change of club than an extension”.
For Liverpool supporters, who experience Salah’s extreme effect on the Liverpool game every single week (saw it also against PSG and Newcastle, where he had two “bad days at work”), it has been a suffering to see the top scorer move closer and closer to exit. Now The Athletic journalist David Ornstein reports that things have turned around, Mo Salah will most likely sign a two-year contract.
“I just know that Liverpool have been optimistic for a while that they will come to an agreement, because at the end of the day they want Salah to stay, and there is a belief that he is happy and will like the same. Now, of course, the numbers have to be right (on what we think is a proposed extension of two years) and it has clearly not been easy… but so far there has been nothing to indicate that the talks have stopped or are not moving in a positive direction,” says Ornstein.
And Saudi Arabia?
-Furthermore, when you check rumours/reports/suggestions that Salah might be ready to move to the Saudi Pro League or PSG, for example, you tend to receive quite immediate and firm rejections, it comes from the well-informed journalist.
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