Mohamed Salah £200m January transfer hands Arsenal, Chelsea and Tottenham Champions League boost
Arsenal, Chelsea and Tottenham are all watching on eagerly as Liverpool await another offer for star player Mohamed Salah in the coming months. The winger has been subject of much speculation over the summer with Saudi Pro League side Al-Ittihad making a late play to sign him in the window.
The Reds, and Jurgen Klopp, can breath a sigh of relief for now after the Saudi transfer deadline passed but it doesn't change the confidence from the Middle East. Reports suggest thatthe feeling is Salah will join Al-Ittihad, it is just a case of when it happens.
Having signed for Liverpool in 2017,Salah has gone on to become one of the best players in the league's history, scoring 188 times since his move from Roma for just £35million. Now though, just over one year on from signing a three-year extension at Anfield, his future is in doubt.
Salah will have a little over 12 months left to play on his contract come next summer and at 31 he has maybe one huge contract left. The Saudi interest has come at a time whereby Klopp's men had massively regressed and personally he recorded a joint worst goalscoring season since his arrival — albeit that was still with 19 league strikes.
Now they face a dilemma with Al-Ittihad likely to come back in for Salah in January. They already had a £150million ($187million) bid turned down for him with suggestions that the newly state-backed side would go above £200million ($240million) in order to secure him.
Come 2024 and fellow Public Investment Fund beneficiaries, Al-Ahli and Al-Hilal could also enter the mix and create a genuine bidding war for the Egyptian. For now he remains a Liverpool player with the intention of pushing his team back into the Champions League spots.
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