Fabrizio Romano has shed additional mild on the scenario surrounding Mo Salah’s long-term future at Liverpool.
The Egyptian induced a stir when, following yesterday’s win over Manchester United, he indicated that this may very well be his ultimate season at Anfield and that no person from the membership had but spoken to him a few new deal, with the 32-year-old at the moment set to grow to be a free agent subsequent summer time.
Talking on The Debrief, the journalist outlined that LFC are on account of have ‘conversations’ with our quantity 11 (together with the opposite key gamers whose offers expire in 2025) ‘this month’, having not achieved so on account of a deal with transfers out and in of the membership through the summer time.
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On Salah, Romano stated: “Arne Slot could be very pleased with him they usually wish to hold him on the membership, so in the meanwhile all of it is determined by the talks happening between Mo and Liverpool within the subsequent few months.
“The scenario for Mo is kind of clear. He can be actually blissful to proceed at Liverpool; I can affirm that. I believe it’s a essential a part of the story.
“Mo wish to keep on the membership. Mo could be very blissful at Liverpool. Mo believes that his future might nonetheless be within the Premier League in a Liverpool shirt, so the message from the participant’s aspect is obvious. It now is determined by if they’ll attain an settlement on the monetary phrases.”
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Romano seems to be amongst those that interpreted Salah’s remarks on Sunday that it’s his ‘final yr within the membership’ as a easy assertion of the present scenario, fairly than having any implication that he intends to maneuver on from Liverpool in 2025.
While it could be considerably comprehensible that Richard Hughes and the Anfield hierarchy had been targeted totally on transfers through the summer time, their rapid consideration should absolutely now change in the direction of renewing the Egyptian’s deal, together with these of Trent Alexander-Arnold and Virgil van Dijk.
With the 32-year-old in glorious kind in the beginning of the season and seemingly wishing to stay on Merseyside, and Slot hoping to retain the participant, we’d prefer to suppose that contract talks might proceed easily as soon as they start in earnest.
If certainly there’s a mutual need from the assorted events concerned to maintain Salah at Liverpool, then no additional time needs to be wasted in securing an extension to his present deal and at last dispelling any fears over an exit from the membership between now and subsequent summer time.
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