Liverpool legend Mark Lawrenson has labelled Mohamed Salah a “miserable so and so” and suggested that a £100m ($128m) transfer could still happen.
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Egyptian into final year of contractLinked with move to the Middle EastReds expected to add before deadlineGettyWHAT HAPPENED?
The Egyptian superstar has entered the final year of his contract at Anfield. No extension has been agreed as yet, meaning that questions of the 32-year-old’s future are never far away. He was heavily linked with a big-money move to Saudi Arabia in the summer of 2023.
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That speculation has continued into the current window, with Lawrenson telling of what the next few weeks could hold for Liverpool talisman Salah: “The Saudi Arabian clubs want younger players and that might be the reason they haven’t gone back for Mo Salah. He likes it at Liverpool, and he’s been excellent so they will want to keep him but if someone did knock on the door and offered £100 million, I think they’d take it, but it would depend on how long is left in the transfer window. He guarantees you goals. He can be a miserable so and so at times, but he guarantees goals.”
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While Salah will continue to make plenty of headlines, Lawrenson believes that new Reds boss Arne Slot could dip back into the transfer market for further reinforcements before the next deadline passes. He added: “I think Liverpool might bring in a couple of players before the transfer window shuts. I'd be surprised if they didn’t. If you’re FSG and you appoint the new manager, you don’t want to just let him work with the old squad. I think they’ll most definitely get a couple and that would be a good thing for the manager so then he's got his own players. The problem for Arne Slot will be if he has a run of three games where he doesn’t get a win, it's the reaction from that. It's massive boots to fill.”
WHAT NEXT FOR LIVERPOOL?
Slot is picking up a managerial baton put down by Jurgen Klopp. Liverpool are hoping to successfully bridge one successful era to the next, with their 2024-25 campaign set to get underway away at newly-promoted Ipswich on Saturday.
