Fabrizio Romano relays overnight Liverpool transfer claim with major implications for the summer

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Sporting director Richard Hughes looks over at the Liverpool corner flag.
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There’s going to be nothing but ceaseless speculation over the futures of Liverpool’s expiring trio until one, or all, sign contract extensions.

The club has allowed the terms of all three key stars – Mo Salah, Virgil van Dijk and Trent Alexander-Arnold – to run into their final year.

To make matters worse, overseas outfits are now free to negotiate pre-contract agreements with the footballers ahead of a potential summer exit on a free agency.

With that in mind, it’s unsurprising that rumours linking the Egyptian King with a move to the Middle East have renewed with increased ferocity since the January 1 deadline.

But the big question remains: Would Salah be prepared to sacrifice top-level competitive football in favour of a mammoth wage packet playing for a Saudi club?

Saudi remain intent on signing Mo Salah

Mo Salah touches his face whilst standing next to Heung-Min Son
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Fabrizio Romano poured more fuel on the transfer bonfire in relaying Al-Hilal boss Jorge Jesus’s comments on our No.11’s future on X (formerly Twitter).

Like Cristiano Ronaldo before him, the former Roma hitman would represent a sensational transfer coup for the Saudi Pro League.

Salah’s one of the biggest names in world football, let alone the Middle East, having lifted the biggest honours in club football with one of Europe’s premier clubs.

The winger has registered 232 goals and 104 assists in 378 appearances for Liverpool since his arrival in the 2017 summer transfer window.

What is Liverpool’s stance on Salah’s contract?

Liverpool, for our part, remain ‘optimistic’ that the Premier League sensation will stay put at Anfield beyond 2025.

However, it’s difficult to predict when exactly a breakthrough will be achieved given all the noise coming out of Mo Salah’s camp has been far from encouraging.

The 32-year-old has made it expressly clear that he and the club have yet to make any significant progress in talks.

That would be considerably less alarming were we not quickly approaching the end of January!

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5 Comments

  1. Hughes has been a complete disaster and Edwards is to blame why did this fool hire a nobody with a shit track record for signing players he has no experience at all at the highest level required for top quality players he only experience has been signing at lower class level for lower clubs ie Bournemouth so why has so stupid Edwards hired this useless fool who hasn’t even sorted out new contracts for salah , Van Dijk and T Alexander?

    1. Yes, you wouldn’t trust Hughes to nip down the shops to buy a pint of milk at the moment . He’s got a lot to prove, if all three of these walk in the summer for free then he needs to be held accountable with Edwards. City throwing 9. 5 year contracts around at the same time as buying the Omar Marmoush who should have been nailed on for being Mo’s International teammate and we’re not even mentioned, tells what a sorry state our recruitment is in. I hope I’m wrong cos it’s one of the things we have done well with over the past 7 or 8 years, it just looks at the moment they’re standing around with their fingers up their backsides.

    2. grow up you sad more on. we’re top of the league, enjoy yourself, or go back to mommy’s basement and stick with your playstation

  2. It’s obvious that Dick Hughes has been told not to give these players a rise but a short contract extension, take it or leave it, except Trent of course, he’s off to Madrid. FSG are the problem with this club.

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