Mo Salah has stated this season can be his “last year” at Liverpool, including that “nobody has talked to me” about his expiring contract.
Talking after Liverpool’s 3-0 Premier League win at Manchester United – the place Salah had a hand in all three targets – the ahead stated: “I had a very good summer season and had a very long time to myself to attempt to keep constructive.
“As you know, it’s my last year at the club.
“I simply need to take pleasure in it and I do not need to give it some thought. I really feel like I am free to play soccer after which we’ll see what occurs subsequent yr.”
However, Sky Sports pundit Jamie Carragher has predicted Salah might yet stay on: “I might be very stunned if Salah is not enjoying for Liverpool subsequent season,” stated Carragher.
Salah arrange Luis Diaz’s double after which scored a 3rd to silence Previous Trafford on Tremendous Sunday, earlier than showing to substantiate his Liverpool exit can be on the finish of this season when interviewed post-match.
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He continued: “Coming into the sport, I stated it could possibly be the final time [I play here with Liverpool].
“No-one at the club has spoken to me about contracts, so I’m just like: ‘OK, I’m playing my last season’ and see what happens at the end of the season.
“It is less than me, however no person’s talked to me from the membership. We’ll see.”
Salah, whose contract expires subsequent summer season, has been at Anfield for the reason that summer season of 2017, when he signed from Roma for a then club-record payment.
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Jamie Carragher believes Mohamed Salah is simply too good to go away Liverpool for Saudi Arabia
Jamie Carragher: “I think Mo Salah is obsessed, like Ronaldo, with records and longevity. Most of us think, when you get to 35, you’re done in football. The way that lad looks after himself, I think he’s thinking of playing until he’s 40, or late 30s at least.
“I do not assume a Saudi state of affairs is on the playing cards subsequent season. He is too good. He is enjoying in the very best league on this planet, for one of many greatest golf equipment on this planet.
“Whether it’s in another season or two seasons’ time, he’s alongside Kenny Dalglish and Steven Gerrard as the top players to play for Liverpool. He’s possibly the best wide player we’ve seen in the Premier League, even if hasn’t got the medals that maybe some others have got.
“In fact you combat to maintain him. It isn’t about throwing cash at him. It isn’t what you have finished prior to now, it is what you are doing sooner or later.
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“When you get into your mid-30s, you can’t do what you did before – but he might be different. Of course Liverpool want to keep him and Virgil van Dijk, but it will probably be about wages. Are they still on the same wages because, in the next two or three years, will they still be the same players? That’s the debate that will be had.
“I might be very stunned if Salah is not enjoying for Liverpool subsequent season as a result of I believe he’ll need to blitz each document within the membership’s historical past.”
Roy Keane: “He is in command of that [his contract]. I do know golf equipment have insurance policies about letting gamers’ contracts run down after they get to 31, 32, however he’ll determine what he desires to do.
“They’ll obviously have to offer him a contract – he’s their main player. But put it this way: he will have plenty of options.”
Daniel Sturridge: “I would be surprised [if they let him go]. Mo has achieved pretty much everything he could at the club but I’ve not seen him happier.
“The way in which he was talking then was as if, ‘I need to be on the membership’. If the membership are going to offer him what he desires then he’ll keep. I actually hope he does keep as a result of he is been magnificent.”
