Mohamed Salah: Liverpool hope striker stays amid transfer speculation over Saudi Pro League interest | football news

Liverpool hope Mohamed Salah remains at Anfield next season.

Salah, 31, will enter the final year of his contract this summer and there has been renewed speculation over a possible move to Saudi Arabia.

However, Salah has given no indication that he wants to leave and Liverpool are not planning to sell.

Salah’s future is expected to be addressed once sporting director Richard Hughes officially begins work in the role and after Jurgen Klopp’s successor, Feyenoord boss Arne Slot, is named.

Salah and Klopp’s touchline brawl during Saturday’s 2-2 draw against West Ham and the striker’s drop in form have only added fuel to the fire surrounding his future at Anfield.

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New footage shows Mohamed Salah and Jurgen Klopp shaking hands before their touchline brawl in Liverpool’s 2-2 draw with West Ham on Saturday.

sky sports Pundit Jamie Carragher said after last week’s Merseyside derby defeat that Salah has been “a shadow of himself for much of this season” and raised the possibility of the striker being sold.

“There is a real discussion for the new manager about what the future holds for Mo Salah – it’s the first time we’ve asked that question,” Carragher said. sky sports.

Neville: Salah has hit a brick wall

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Gary Neville believes Mohamed Salah has ‘hit a wall’

Sky Sports expert Gary Neville:

“I was in the Merseyside derby and I have played a lot of Liverpool games recently and Salah is not at their level. He has been an incredible player and he is an incredible player, but he was very bad in the Merseyside derby.

“I mean, he didn’t touch the ball in the first half. What was noticeable is that he was right in front of me against Mykolenko, I don’t remember him receiving the ball. I think we showed that he had five minutes to play. six touches after 30 minutes and a bit.

“He wasn’t in the game, they weren’t putting him in the game. But Mo Salah usually participates in the game.

“In the second half, when Ashley Young comes in and goes to the left back for Mykolenko, who took that hit, and you think ‘okay, okay. Here we go. He’ll like this, 1-0 down.’ and Liverpool fighting to stay in the title race.

“Mo Salah just hit a brick wall. You have to be careful, there was a player here (in the north London derby) called Son who I think hit a brick wall probably about 18 months ago, where it looked like was gone and he was fighting.

“These players play so much football, they do it very consistently and Salah has been almost always around for six or seven years. There comes a point when you need a break.”

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