Liverpool's £150m transfer decision will be priceless after new whispers from Saudi Arabia
It is the £150million decision that, with each passing week, looks increasingly priceless for Liverpool. And the longer Mohamed Salah is persuaded to resist the lure of Saudi Arabia, so increases the evidence the Egyptian king can extend his Anfield reign beyond the end of the season.
Salah continued his impressive form when a brace against Brentford on Sunday earned Liverpool a 3-0 Premier League win and moved Jurgen Klopp's side to within a point of leaders Manchester City ahead of the top two meeting at the Etihad following the international break on Saturday week.
The 31-year-old now has 12 goals and four assists in 17 appearances this campaign - 14 of those goal involvements coming in 12 league games alone - with City's Erling Haaland the only Premier League player to net more in all competitions.
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And it was another performance of landmarks, with Salah becoming the first Liverpool player to score in each of the first six home games of a campaign and his second a 200th goal for an English club, all bar two of which have come with the Reds.
"Mo Salah gets praised a lot but I don't know if he gets enough praise," said Brentford boss Thomas Frank after his team had seen up close the devastation the Egyptian can still wreak. "I think now off the top of my head, he is the best player in the Premier League, potentially."
Those comments were a direct reference to the perception that, outside of Anfield, Salah isn't quite as universally appreciated as should be merited in England. There's no such issue with Saudi Pro League side Al-Ittihad, whose
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