BBC pundit and former Arsenal centre-back Martin Keown is certain that Liverpool will find a way to extend Mohamed Salah’s contract despite media talk about the forward rejecting Liverpool’s latest offer.
The main topic on the tongues of Liverpool supporters is the club’s failure to extend the contracts of Mohamed Salah, Virgil van Dijk and Trent Alexander-Arnold.
There is still a good chance that the club figures out a way to make it happen but as the season draws on, fears increase that all three could possibly depart the club at the end of the season.
It would be a massive failure to lose three superstars for free but Salah is now being tipped to renew.
Martin Keown “certain” Liverpool will extend Mohamed Salah’s contract
A report from Egypt this week claims that Liverpool have had their latest contract offer rejected by Mohamed Salah. The report from Masrawy claims FSG want the forward to take a pay cut to get the extension he wants which led to Salah rejecting their offer.
Now, Martin Keown says he’s certain that FSG will find a way to renew the Egyptian winger’s contract before his terms expire at the end of the season.
Speaking on talkSPORT, Keown said: “I’m certain they’re going to find some way that they can meet his needs and he gets a new contract. Probably for three years, that’s probably what he’s fighting for.
“I see no decline in him, he just keeps on going. He still looks supremely fit, he’s still got that pace and if he stays there for another two or three years, he will break all those records.”
Can Mohamed Salah break Alan Shearer’s goalscoring record?
Assuming FSG do find a way to please Salah and make the finances work, there is a good chance the winger will come close to matching the 260 goals Alan Shearer scored to become the highest scorer in Premier League history.
As things stand, Salah is 84 goals away from equalling the record. With four months remaining of the season, there is still plenty of time to bring that figure down further.
If he were then to sign a three-year extension, that would give him a bonafide chance to become the outright Premier League top goalscorer of all time.
Salah often gets critiqued for not being as ‘aesthetic’ as some other greats to have graced the English top flight.
It is, however, inarguable that he is one of the very best attackers the Premier League has ever seen.