Mohamed Salah Drops Major Hint About New Liverpool Deal as Agent Touches Down in Merseyside

Mohamed Salah has reiterated his desire to finish the season as a Premier League champion with Liverpool, despite revealing that “no progress” has been made regarding a new contract at the club. The Egyptian forward, who has scored 17 goals this season, has helped lift Liverpool to the top of the Premier League, six points clear with a game in hand over second-place Arsenal.

However, Salah is now in the final six months of the biggest contract ever signed at Liverpool, a deal inked in June 2022 on the Greek island of Mykonos. As a result, he can negotiate with teams outside of England about joining them as a free agent at the end of the season. Despite this looming possibility, Salah is eager to stay at Liverpool, and it’s understood that his agent, Ramy Abbas, will be visiting Anfield this weekend when the team hosts Manchester United.

Salah had previously expressed his frustration in November, following a 3-2 win at Southampton, over the lack of an offer for a new contract. Speaking to Sky Sports ahead of a match with Ruben Amorim’s team, Salah admitted that the two sides remain far from reaching an agreement.

“Do I believe this is my last season? So far, yeah. It’s the last six months,” Salah said. “There is nothing, no progress there and we are far away from any progress, so we just need to wait and see.”

He continued, reflecting on his approach for the rest of the season: “I think the thing in my head is like: OK if this is your last six months or year, what do you want to see in the future? Do you want to look back and say I was concerned about the contract or stressed? Or just that I had an unbelievable season? That is in my head now all the time.”

Salah further explained his focus on creating a memorable season: “If I think there is any kind of distraction, I remind myself I want to look back and say I had an unbelievable season. So that is what I want to do.”

Looking ahead to his legacy, Salah shared his ambitions: “It’s in my head to be fair [to be remembered as the best] but if you win the trophy and you are probably going to be up there, so hopefully I can make the difference, make the team win the trophy and whatever when I end my career, there is always going to be a discussion.”

Salah acknowledged the debate over who is considered the best in Liverpool’s history: “People are going to prefer Stevie G (Steven Gerrard), people prefer me, people will prefer Kenny Dalglish. So you can’t control that because people are not always going to agree on a player. But being in that conversation is a great thing, so if I look back eight years ago, I would have never dreamed of this. But then you dream and you have ambition and I am very proud to be in that conversation.”

When reflecting on his personal goals, Salah shared, “Every time I have time off, I go with the family, I see my parents, then with the family and then I have one or two days alone just to write my target for next season and, yeah, that happens every holiday.”

He elaborated on his primary goal: “The first thing on the list was to win the Premier League with Liverpool. If you see my interviews from the last seven or eight years, I always say Champions League. But this is the first time I say I really want to win the Premier League with Liverpool.”

Salah explained why the Premier League had become his top priority: “I have no idea [why Premier League is now above the Champions League] but probably because we didn’t celebrate the one we won the way we wanted. Also, coming back here, it is my last year at the club, so you want to do something special for the city. That was the thing in my head.”

Salah admitted to being self-aware about areas he can improve: “I am very honest with myself and what I need to improve now. Maybe my shape needs to be better, maybe the way I play needs to be better, the way I shoot, I need to be more calm, different stuff, I am very into details.”

He shared his intense motivation: “I am really, really motivated to win the Premier League and maybe the manager has come with a different idea that can help the team because we were with Jurgen for seven years, so maybe things changed slightly to make us want it more, to win more. But it doesn’t mean that before we didn’t want to but this is football, change can help the team. So I think I have never been motivated to win the Premier League like I do now.”

Finally, Salah acknowledged the challenges ahead: “Arsenal is catching us, Chelsea is catching us, Forest is catching us, Man City will be back for sure, so it is very tricky. So we just stay focused, don’t take it for granted and keep working hard and hopefully we win it in the end.”