Saudi clubs eye Mohamed Salah free transfer in 2025 as Liverpool contract nears expiry
Saudi clubs are prepared to wait for Mohamed Salah’s contract to expire in 2025 if they can’t agree a deal to sign him from Liverpool this summer, according to The Telegraph.
Writing on their website (24 May), journalist Mike McGrath reports that interest remains in the Egyptian forward after a failed £150million transfer attempt in the summer of 2023 which failed.
But Salah’s contract is due to expire in 2025, meaning he can speak to foreign clubs about a pre-contract from January 2025 if he doesn’t agree new terms prior to that, and the SPL giants are ready to wait to make another swoop for the Anfield legend.
Mohamed Salah set to stay at Liverpool for 2024/25
It had looked like Salah would be all set to leave Anfield this summer at one point, with Saudi clubs poised to pounce and the 32-year-old having just one year remaining on his deal.
But instead it now looks certain that he will be sticking around to help Arne Slot settle in at the club after Jurgen Klopp’s exit, meaning there will be two farewells in two years at the club.
Losing Salah on a free transfer is something that the club will surely have been weighed up by those in charge, and it will make more sense to lose him then than this year.
He is still operating at the highest level and his hunger hasn’t deteriorated either, so getting back in to the Champions League is likely to be a big factor in him staying put.
But the reality is that he is likely to move on next year, and while he has to go at some point at least the club can now plan properly for a replacement.
In other Liverpool news, two other coaches were considered before Slot’s appointment at Anfield.
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