Mohamed Salah’s Liverpool contract is set to expire at the end of the season, prompting the club to scout alternatives in case he departs. Among the players under consideration are Antoine Semenyo, who has scored five goals this season, and Bryan Mbuemo, who has netted eight.
Brentford’s Mbuemo and Bournemouth’s Semenyo are being evaluated by Liverpool as the club looks at future targets for coach Arne Slot. With Michael Edwards and Richard Hughes leading the recruitment efforts, the team is focused on identifying potential talent, especially in positions that may require replacements in the next year.
Salah is one of three key players, alongside Virgil van Dijk and Trent Alexander-Arnold, whose contracts will end this season. While the futures of these players remain uncertain, Liverpool is wisely preparing for different scenarios.
This preparation might necessitate signing a new forward, and Semenyo is familiar to Hughes, who brought him to Bournemouth from Bristol City in 2023. The 24-year-old has made notable progress since Andoni Iraola became head coach, scoring five times in his last 14 Premier League appearances last season and adding four goals in ten games this season.
Mbuemo, 25, has been even more prolific, with eight goals in nine matches. Liverpool has been monitoring him for some time, and both players possess qualities similar to Salah, particularly their versatility in attacking positions.
Sky Germany has reported that Stuttgart’s 25-year-old Egyptian forward Oumar Marmoush is also under consideration, though sources from Merseyside have stated he is not currently a target.
When asked about the contract situations of Salah, Alexander-Arnold, and Van Dijk, head coach Slot remained tight-lipped, indicating that discussions with the players are “ongoing.”
He stated, “For me, the contract situation could become a problem if the players don’t perform as well as they do at the moment. Of course, it’s not sure that, if they perform not as good anymore, it has anything to do with their contract situation.”
Slot noted, “At the moment, all three of them are in a good place, all of them perform really, really, really well, and there are ongoing discussions, as Virgil said, with the people he has to talk with, and that’s not me, as you know. I talk with him about other things.”
He concluded, “Let’s wait and see, but all that he said is completely right in that he doesn’t exactly know what the future will be as long as he doesn’t sign the contract yet.”
