Salah Liverpool contract claim as agent's 'advice' emerges amid Arne Slot update

The latest Liverpool transfer news as Mohamed Salah continues to be linked with a free switch to Saudi Arabia upon the impending expiry of his Anfield contract next summer

Mohamed Salah Liverpool contract claim as agent's 'advice' emerges amid Arne Slot update

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The spotlight remains fixed on Mohamed Salah and a lack of a new contract signed as of yet. For all he and Liverpool are achieving on the field, the 32-year-old just cannot escape it.

The Reds enter the weekend top of the Premier League, taking to the field first alongside Crystal Palace with the chance to establish their placement and throw down a gauntlet heading into the second international break of the campaign. But every week, risking eating away at the focus of the management and players are the unresolved futures of some of the club's key names.

Alongside Trent Alexander-Arnold and Virgil van Dijk, Salah sits high up the list of priorities to decide the next steps. Come next summer, it will either be the end of a record-breaking eight-year career on Merseyside, or he will help lead Slot's charges further into the new era. With that, The ECHO takes a look at the latest news and rumours circulating about Mohamed Salah and his future at Liverpool...

Salah's contingency plan

While the general consensus is that the Egyptian King's preference is to remain on Merseyside, the latest report suggests he is prepared for all outcomes.

According to CaughtOffside, representatives of Saudi Pro League club Al-Ahli - the team that Roberto Firmino now plays for - have entered initial discussions about securing the signature of Salah if he is to leave next summer. There is claimed to be an openness from the player himself fuelling such rumours.

They allegedly plan to offer him and Reds captain Van Dijk three-year contracts with the option for another to move to the Gulf state, should they be happy with that.

Agent's advice

As this latest whisper of a free transfer to Saudi Arabia spreads, Football Insider claims Salah's representatives will be instructing him to 'run his contract down' in order to discover the lengths Liverpool are willing to go to ensure he remains at the club.

Only then would they decide if he is to renew terms or move elsewhere, as he 'won't have any concerns' about alternative offers from Saudi Pro League teams and the substantial money they are bound to offer.

'The same boring answer'

All of this discussion comes out in the wash as Liverpool continue to do business as usual. The club's policy is to do in-house business with secrecy, and that is how it shall remain.

"Contracts?!"

Along with a laugh, that was the head coach's response when asked about the subject again at his pre-Crystal Palace press conference on Friday.

"I was hoping you didn't use that word. It's the same boring answer as always and I could really understand if you ask me this every two weeks but every other day! People think I am boring with the same answer Try asking after the international break!"

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