Mohamed Salah has piled the pressure on Liverpool owners FSG this week. The Egyptian made no secret of his future plans.
Mohamed Salah is arguably the best player on the planet right now. It’s really just down to him and Karim Benzema on current form.
Salah has seven Premier League goals in eight games, with another four assists. Some of those have been truly magical, too, as the Egyptian continues to do impossible things.
He’s breaking records on top of it all. Salah became Liverpool’s all-time Champions League top scorer last week and became the first Red to score in nine consecutive games.
A goal against Manchester United on Sunday and Salah breaks another one – the top-scoring African in top-flight English football.
Despite all of this, we’re unsure about Salah’s future, though. His contract expires in 2023 and a new one doesn’t seem particularly close.
Now, we’ve been here before. Elite forward needs to leave Liverpool – Michael Owen, Fernando Torres and Luis Suarez were all the same. Only, this time it’s different.
Salah wants to stay.
Salah piles pressure on FSG
“If you ask me, I would love to stay until the last day of my football career, but I can’t say much about that – it’s not in my hands,” Salah told Sky Sports.
“It depends on what the club want, not on me.
“At the moment I can’t see myself ever playing against Liverpool. That would make me sad. It’s hard, I don’t want to talk about it, but it would make me really sad.”
There’s another side to this, of course – what is Salah asking for? The Independent claims he wants wages on par with the best in the Premier League.
Maybe not Cristiano Ronaldo level but Kevin De Bruyne. The Belgian earns roughly £380k-a-week.
We wrote a few weeks ago that if Salah really is asking for that, Liverpool need to decide what kind of club they want to be. That still holds true. Even more so, really, if the player actively wants to stay.
Because they will never have a better opportunity to secure an elite player over a four or five-year contract. There’s no risk on how good he’d be, no problem convincing him that Liverpool is where he wants to be.
Liverpool can negotiate with Salah while knowing he wants to stay. If they decide he’s not worth the money, then the pressure on FSG will be higher than ever.
If they can’t see the value in securing arguably the world’s best player, then what exactly are we doing here?
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