It would genuinely be one of the most baffling decisions of all time if they let him leave.
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Absolutely. I can’t wait until he leaves. He’s been a thorn in our side for years.
But he'll probably want a 3-4 year deal on 400k.
We've seen many a time that a player signs for length and drops off a cliff.
Where would he even go if he were to leave?
Saudi Arabia probably. He’d be a big draw for the league, being not only a fantastic player but also a Muslim.
Strikes me as too ambitious for that.
Yeah. Maybe Spain? Or he could end up retiring at Liverpool.
It'd be smart for Liverpool to leave the extension to the business end of the season so Salah has to put in more 10/10 performances in 2025 to secure his payday. If you're gonna pay 400k a week you may as well see a few Champions League knockout stage goals first to make it worth it.
He's incredible isn't he. But also a real try-hard for an epic celebration recently. Like with all things Liverpool, it has to be epic and it has to be the greatest ever.
Quite comfortably the best in the league right now. If we don't extend his contract it really is insanity, we'll have to pay so much more for a close downgrade.
This. We'll have to pay c£80m and £250k a week on someone who isn't a guarantee. I don't see him slowing down, he'll just adapt his game as he gets older...I can see him doing another 4 or 5 years at the top level.
He's such a killer, and the number of hopeful long balls that he turns into good passes annoys me every game. Top top player.
Current favourite PFA player of the year.
Liverpool would be nuts not to offer him a new contract
Liverpool would be nuts not to offer him a new contract
I want Less Salah 
He should be asking for a long contract on at least £400k/week. Perhaps more. I genuinely think if he leaves Liverpool they are suddenly nothing like the side they are this season. He has been at the heart of everything good about them. Hes their cutting edge. Hes their spark and he scores goals for them. They would be absolutely mad to let him go.
That cross for the first goal ....wow. What a player
Ronaldo was still one of the best players in the world when Madrid said he could go.
Sometimes you have to make decision that might hurt in the short term. Salah wants big money on a multi year contract when he’s going to be 33 at the end of the season. You can’t give him what he wants. And if he insists, thank him for his years of service and tell him to find employment elsewhere.
At his age things can change quickly despite how fit he is, reactions get slower, muscles weaken etc as time passes. I don't think it's reasonable for him to demand a 4 year 400k a week contract.
How Liverpool have got themselves in this mess is staggering. Really poor management. They should be in a position where they can sell him at the end of the season for close to £100m. As it is, I'd offer him a 2/3 year deal. If that isn't long enough for him, then goodbye.
No one is buying him for 100m
He’s still very quick as well. Gave Ake a good run for his money and looked faster over distance and much quicker off the mark.
He’s annoyingly good, and just like Aguero, he unfortunately seems like a nice guy as well. Infuriating!
Please PSG, pay him what he wants and save us all from another few seasons of Liverpool having a cheat code every game. They won't even be half the team they are now without him.
Don't do this to yourself man. It's the hope that kills.
We thought Klopp leaving would worsen them. The way their season is going, it's more likely that Salah leaves and fecking Nunez turns into 2012/13 RVP.
Liverpool are right. People are being shortsighted. He is already at 350k and allegedly wants 450k-500k a week. The second highest earner is van Dijk at 220k.
People look at it one way, the cost to replace, but forget to look at the effect of raising the implicit wage ceiling, which ends up shifting the whole compensation framework. Wages at any company or club are relative to two things, what a skill set can earn in the market and that entity’s compensation framework itself relative to the market.
If TAA is at 180k a week relative to Salah being at 350k, raising Salah’s salary will mean raising TAA’s roughly the same way as a percentage when it’s time for him to negotiate, or any other player really.
Barca have been through this with Messi and have had to massively correct their compensation framework once Messi left.
Salah is fantastic but pace is really a big part of his game and that might fall off a cliff in a year or two. It’s a genuine risk, no matter how good he looks now. He’s also avoided any injuries. If that happens, recovering in his 30s won’t be easy.
There is a cost benefit analysis and a proper risk assessment that needs to happen beyond “he’s mint, give him what he wants.”
He’ll end up going to a league with lower taxes because by all accounts he’s focused on how much he nets over the next few years. Or to a team that can pay him in some more, uhm, “creative” ways.
People look at it one way, the cost to replace, but forget to look at the effect of raising the implicit wage ceiling, which ends up shifting the whole compensation framework. Wages at any company or club are relative to two things, what a skill set can earn in the market and that entity’s compensation framework itself relative to the market.
If TAA is at 180k a week relative to Salah being at 350k, raising Salah’s salary will mean raising TAA’s roughly the same way as a percentage when it’s time for him to negotiate, or any other player really.
Barca have been through this with Messi and have had to massively correct their compensation framework once Messi left.
Salah is fantastic but pace is really a big part of his game and that might fall off a cliff in a year or two. It’s a genuine risk, no matter how good he looks now. He’s also avoided any injuries. If that happens, recovering in his 30s won’t be easy.
There is a cost benefit analysis and a proper risk assessment that needs to happen beyond “he’s mint, give him what he wants.”
He’ll end up going to a league with lower taxes because by all accounts he’s focused on how much he nets over the next few years. Or to a team that can pay him in some more, uhm, “creative” ways.
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There's a portrait of him in his attic where he's old, decrepit and in a wheelchair.
Grandmo Salah
I said they should be in a position where they can sell him at the end of the season for close to £100m.
I hope some of you don't seriously believe that Liverpool could sign Saka or Raphinha to replace Salah 
I agree with you. Imagine they cave in for both his and van Dijk's demands and let's say they get multi-year extensions on improved terms as well. What if they both start to drop off (permanently due to age) at the same time next season?
Liverpool already have an impossible task on their hand where they have to replace potentially 3, or even 4 all-timer players in their respective positions very soon. Identifying the replacements is probably the easiest part. But can you afford them? Can you beat out every other top club to the signings? They couldn't in Yoro's case, for one. And all this with those players needed replacing still at your club, physically washed up, and on over 500k/week wages combined, impossible to shift.
Salah turns 33 next summer. If he wants let's say a 3 year contract, you don't cave in. No matter how good he is. FSG sadly knows this IMO.
Saka, definitely not. No idea about Raphinha.I hope some of you don't seriously believe that Liverpool could sign Saka or Raphinha to replace Salah
Well, I don't think anyone would leave Barcelona for Liverpool whilst being one of their best players and in their prime years. Especially when Barca were Raphinha's dream club and that's why the likes of Arsenal, United, and Chelsea never explored a deal with Leeds in detail, because the player's intentions were clear.
If a situation arises where Barcelona suddenly wants to kick Raphinha out, like they tried to do with de Jong 2 years ago, then Liverpool would need to beat out several other, more attractive, bigger, and richer clubs for his signature.
Even Barcelona and Real Madrid can have difficulties with replacing all-timer players. It's silly to think Liverpool will just sign the best possible replacements for Salah, van Dijk, Trent, and Alisson, if all of them leave soon.
Some of the crap I've been listening to from Liverpools media team has been hilarious. "He doesn't drink, he doesn't smoke and has a six pack, so he will definitely play well onto his 30s"
I'm sure most fooballers are like that nowadays!
I'm sure most fooballers are like that nowadays!
Clear difference in Madrid and Liverpool though. Liverpool don't have the same level of pull financially or reputation wise to easily bring in more world class talents and be shrewd with letting him leave, and they aren't going to find anyone close on the market to replace how good he is for them. At best they'd be trying to bring in a Nico Williams type and hope he gets good enough to just replace a majority of that Salah production. Personally with how their squad is currently set up, I'd be resigning him with the understanding that they probably have a few years left of world class play between him, VVD, Allisson and enough squad cohesion to allow them to compete at the top of world football right now even if it will hurt them down the road when it's really time to rebuild.
Also it should be noted Madrid sold Ronaldo for a huge fee to Juventus, he didn't just leave for free.
If Salah leaves then the FSG/Edwards M.O. isn’t usually to go for a readymade replacement. It would be to try and get the next top forward that has room to grow and develop. No guarantees, but it’s the likely approach.
Based on some of the talk you hear about how many City players were going to "lockdown parties" I'm not so sure on the drinking part.
Either way, I don't think it's unrealistic to expect Salah to keep up his performance levels for at least another 2 seasons. Talk today is that he'd even accept a one year deal, so the money must be the stumbling block.
As I said before, even if he asks for an outrageous salary it'll probably still be cheaper to extend than it would be to pay a transfer fee (and contract) for a similar level player.
According to rumours, Mbeumo or Adeyemi might replace Salah.
Hopefully not Mbeumo. The guy is class and would smash it at a top club. Adeyemi from the limited times I have watched looks a bit German Theo Walcott. Speedy but a bit wasteful in front of goal
I'm sure a lot of Liverpool fans were happy to accept a bid from the Saudi league last season for Salah. They were saying he's finished at the top. If you dissect his performances, he has decline from his peak. He has a few weeks where he plays well, but then goes missing too for long periods. His purple patch now is definitely due to him trying to get a new contract.
7 years is a hell of a purple patch