New Mo Salah contract claims: Even more than £400k per week
Liverpool sporting director Richard Hughes scored a couple of big contract wins towards the tail end of last season.
Although the Scottish exec was unable to get a deal over the line for Trent Alexander-Arnold - who was sold to Real Madrid for £10m - he did secure new contracts for two Liverpool all-time greats.
Virgil van Dijk and Mohamed Salah signed deals until 2027 - extending their terms by two more years.
The wisdom of at least one of those deals is now coming under scrutiny amid a season of indifferent form for Salah. The Egyptian King is back among the goals - into double figures once again - but it’s fair to say he hasn’t been the same player.
Dropped from the team back in winter following a fall-out with Arne Slot it has been suggested that the Premier League champions would be prepared to listen to offers for Salah this summer.
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Saudi Arabian clubs would be interested in adding Salah although it remains to be seen whether they would pay a transfer fee.
Liverpool left with mammoth Salah contract
Liverpool could yet be left with Salah on a mammoth contract up until his 35th birthday - with the winger also due to play a World Cup for Egypt before next season kicks off.
That could leave plenty of the contract budget tied into one player whose best days appear to be behind him. It has been reported that Liverpool committed £400k per week to Salah’s new deal - which would cost the club over £40m in wages alone until summer 2027.
But now trusted journalist James Pearce in the Athletic has claimed that Salah’s deal is even HIGHER than the £400k per week reported.
“What looked like a no-brainer when Liverpool gave him a lucrative new two-year contract worth in excess of £400,000 ($531,000) per week last April hasn’t panned out like anyone envisaged,” the report reads.
It's worth even MORE than £400k per week
It brings into question the logic of handing a 33-year-old such a hefty contract. In the cold light of day it might have been a better decision to let Salah leave at the end of his record-breaking 2024/25 season.
He was crowned Premier League top scorer, top playmaker and overall player of the year - and could have bowed out at the very top.
Instead amid an uneven campaign for the two-time African player of the year Liverpool are paying the largest salary bill in English football.
It was Hughes’ decision to add even more on to Salah’s previous reported salary of £350k per week.
If he’s fit and firing on all cylinders then it would be one thing but as he’s been out of form - and out of the team - it remains to be seen whether FSG extract maximum value from this renewal.
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