Mohamed Salah’s trophy-laden spell with Liverpool is set to lengthen to a decade after the prolific Egypt ahead signed a brand new contract with the Premier League chief, ending months of uncertainty over his future.
The 32-year-old Salah was one among three key senior gamers — with Trent Alexander-Arnold and Virgil van Dijk — who had been due to be out of contract at the top of this season.
He is the primary to lengthen his stay, having already established himself as a membership nice with 243 targets in 394 appearances, inserting him third within the checklist of Liverpool’s all-time prime scorers.
Liverpool didn’t disclose the size of Salah’s new deal in an announcement on Friday, however supervisor Arne Slot did, saying in a information convention it was a two-year deal.
“Of course I’m very excited,” Salah said. “We have an amazing group now. Before additionally we had an amazing group. But I signed as a result of I believe we’ve an opportunity to win different trophies and luxuriate in my soccer.
“It’s nice, I had my greatest years right here. I performed eight years, hopefully it’s going to be 10. Enjoying my life right here, having fun with my soccer. I had the very best years in my profession.”
Salah has been either tied or alone as the Premier League’s top scorer in three seasons, been voted as the league’s player of the year twice, and has lifted seven major trophies including the Premier League in 2020 and the Champions League in 2019.
Helped by Salah’s league-leading 27 goals this campaign, Liverpool holds an 11-point lead in the Premier League in its bid for a record-tying 20th English top-flight title.
“I would like to say to (the fans), I am very, very happy to be here,” Salah mentioned. “I signed here because I believe we can win a lot of big trophies together. Keep supporting us and we’ll give it our best, and hopefully in the future we’re going to win more trophies.”
Slot said he knew for some time that Salah was likely to stay at Liverpool and praised sporting director Richard Hughes for securing the forward’s future.
“Mo Salah is such a great player that as a free agent he can go probably to every club in the world, wherever he wants to,” Slot said. “But he stayed at our club.”
Attention now turns to whether Van Dijk and Alexander-Arnold will follow Salah in committing their future to Liverpool.
Van Dijk, the commanding Netherlands center-back who has been at Anfield since 2018, said in comments reported Monday that he was getting closer to signing a new contract.
“There is progress, yeah,” said the Liverpool captain, who turns 34 in July. “Listen, these are internal discussions and we’ll see.”
Alexander-Arnold, however, is the most likely to leave Liverpool having been linked heavily with a move to Real Madrid.
Published – April 11, 2025 04:29 pm IST
