Salah’s Liverpool days at an end
This is a distraction that Slot and Liverpool sporting director Richard Hughes hardly needed.
The team is underperforming – sitting 10th in the league standings – and £450m worth of new signings haven’t been properly integrated.
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A very public spat with the club’s most famous player crowns a miserable campaign thus far – and could lead to the Egyptian King’s exit sooner rather than later.
The two-time African footballer of the year jets off with his national team to Afcon next week and there is a very real prospect that he resumes his club career elsewhere in January.
Top Saudi clubs queue up for Salah
Saudi Arabia’s Public Investment Fund is ready to conduct a deal for Salah in the winter window – with PIF owning 75 percent of the SPL’s biggest clubs.
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Al-Nassr, Al-Hilal, Al-Ahli and Al-Ittihad are all under control of PIF – but we must also be attentive to Al-Qadsiah – owned by Saudi Arabia’s oil and gas giant Aramco.
According to a PIF source speaking to Al Jazeera, the Public Investment Fund intends to conduct a loan deal in January for Salah or else buy the winger out of his Liverpol contract.
Salah is under contract until 2027 – earning £400k per week – meaning the Reds still have £30m to pay. The same source adds no talks have yet taken place with Salah but they are intending to do so when the time is right.
© IMAGO – Mohamed Salah Liverpool
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Would Liverpool get rid of Salah on a free?
It’s hard to see Liverpool accepting a loan deal or else one which sees them failing to earn a transfer fee. Surely part of the thinking behind Salah’s renewal was eliminating the possibility of him leaving for free.
If – at any time before 2027 – it looks like a parting of the ways seems inevitable then it makes sense for Hughes to ask for a transfer fee.
Given Salah’s profile and status in the game it would surely be a decent fee – although the addition of the player’s wages makes this an extremely expensive operation.
We know the SPL clubs can do massive deals – as they have done in the case of Cristiano Ronaldo and Karim Benzema – and there is no doubting their willingness to get Salah signed up.
With 18 months on the contract however any deal will be done on Liverpool’s terms – ensuring a return on a player signed for around £37m from Roma back in 2017.
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