Salah Signs New Two-year Deal With Liverpool

Egypt guardant Mohamed Salah has signed a caller two-year statement pinch Liverpool.

His erstwhile woody was scheduled to tally retired successful nan summertime and location had been doubts he would enactment pinch nan Reds pursuing comments from nan 32-year-old during nan play arsenic good arsenic speculation linking him pinch a move to Saudi Arabia.

However, he will now person nan chance to adhd to his 243 goals and 109 assists for Liverpool successful 394 appearances.

"Of people I'm very excited - we person a awesome squad now," said Salah.

"Before we besides had a awesome team. But I signed because I deliberation we person a chance to triumph different trophies and bask my football.

"I person played 8 years here, hopefully it's going to beryllium 10. I'm enjoying my life here, enjoying my football. I person had nan champion years of my profession here."

Salah has scored 32 goals successful each competitions this season, including 27 successful nan Premier League arsenic nan Reds pursuit a 20th top-flight title.

He is averaging nan astir extremity involvements per 90 minutes (1.44) successful nan Premier League this play - nan astir of immoderate subordinate successful a azygous season.

Liverpool are 11 points clear of second-placed Arsenal pinch 7 games remaining.

Salah, who joined Liverpool from Roma successful 2017, has won nan Champions League, Premier League, FA Cup, League Cup and Fifa Club World Cup pinch nan Reds.

He was 1 of 3 cardinal Liverpool players who will beryllium retired of statement this summer, on pinch right-back Trent Alexander-Arnold and centre-back Virgil van Dijk.

Netherlands defender Van Dijk has said there has been progress connected talks complete a caller woody but Alexander-Arnold has been heavy linked pinch a move to Real Madrid.

Salah's erstwhile woody was understood to beryllium worthy much than £350,000-a-week and made him nan highest-paid subordinate successful nan club's history.

It is believed nan negotiations complete his caller statement did not impact a salary trim arsenic portion of nan talks.

Amid uncertainty astir his future, Salah has already had his second-best play successful position of convention goals astatine Liverpool successful 2024-25. With 7 games left, he could feasibly scope nan 32 he scored successful his first campaign.

In September, he said successful a Sky Sports question and reply it was his "last season" astatine Anfield because cipher astatine nan nine had talked to him astir a caller contract.

Those comments were made aft he had scored successful a 3-0 triumph astatine Manchester United - a lucifer he had treated for illustration it was his past astatine Old Trafford.

Two months later, pursuing a triumph astatine Southampton, Salah stated he was "disappointed" astatine not having been offered a caller woody by Liverpool and that he was "probably much retired than in".

At nan time, nan Reds claimed affirmative talks had been taking spot pinch nan player's representative.

However, successful January Salah again said publically astir his statement business erstwhile he said nan 2 parties were "far distant from immoderate progress".

The guardant has consistently been linked pinch a move to Saudi Arabia, pinch Liverpool rejecting a £150m connection from Al-Ittihad for Salah successful 2023.

Saudi Arabia's sports curate Prince Abdulaziz bin Turki Al-Faisal had said nan guardant would beryllium "a large prize" and they "would emotion to person him".

However, Liverpool head Arne Slot said successful January he wanted nan subordinate to stay and Salah is "wise capable to make nan correct decision" complete his future.

In announcing Salah's caller deal, Liverpool posted a image of nan subordinate - who is nicknamed nan 'Egyptian King' - sat connected a throne connected nan Anfield transportation pinch nan caption 'more successful than out'.

Slot, speaking earlier his side's crippled against West Ham connected Sunday, said he was "happy" Salah had chosen to enactment fixed he would person been a free supplier successful nan summertime and could spell to "probably immoderate nine successful nan world".

The Dutchman added: "First of all, he has ever been judged arsenic a subordinate but I besides spot him arsenic a quality being and he is simply a humble person.

"He ever wants to activity difficult and ever puts a batch of effort into becoming nan subordinate he has become. He wants to enactment astatine that level, truthful he conscionable keeps connected bringing that effort each azygous day.

"What makes him typical connected nan pitch, successful my opinion, is that he tin people goals.

"There are different players who tin people goals, but Mo tin people a extremity moreover if he is not successful nan champion half an hr aliases champion 15 minutes - and that's why he is mentally truthful strong.

"You request to beryllium that if you want to beryllium astatine nan highest level each 3 aliases 4 days for 7 aliases 8 years. Apart from value and physique, you request to beryllium mentally really beardown arsenic well.

"Apart from each nan different things, really mentally beardown he is is astir apt what stands retired for me."

BBC Sport elder shot newsman Sami Mokbel

There is simply a increasing anticipation astatine Liverpool that skipper Virgil van Dijk will subordinate guardant Mohamed Salah successful signing a caller contract.

Following months of discussions it is understood Van Dijk is highly adjacent to signing what would beryllium a caller two-year contract.

There is an value to some contracts being 2 years successful length.

The first, and astir obvious, use to Liverpool is they get to support 2 of their astir important players.

But it besides intends they tin debar a repetition of nan unsettling communicative that has clouded Arne Slot's first play arsenic head for astatine slightest different year.

Liverpool, barring what would beryllium a singular capitulation, are group to triumph their 20th convention title - yet nan accomplishment has travel against nan backdrop of Van Dijk, Salah and defender Trent Alexander-Arnold approaching nan extremity of their contracts.

The club's hopes of retaining Alexander-Arnold person waned successful caller weeks, pinch nan right-back successful talks pinch Real Madrid complete a free transportation successful nan summer.