Mo Salah

[Mark79]

I just don’t have a great deal of confidence in FSG going to anywhere around the reported £400,000 a week he’s asking for.

Can see them putting him ahead of Virgil’s £220,000 (before bonuses) with the rest being achievable in performance/win bonuses. But apparently Salah wants it as a guaranteed wage, not performance related.

[Scratch]

I think a big fear factor for FSG is age...he is 30 now, and you rarely see forwards maintain their peak levels past 32ish (Ronaldo and Messi being the exceptions, but even their levels dropped significantly). Do they risk him hitting a cliff and end up paying £400k+ per week to a player no longer capable of doing the necessary work for the club? Or do they hope that given his fitness levels, we have another Milner on our hands, capable of playing at the top for another 4+ years before slowly being utilised as a sub?

[Buzzo]

Splitting hairs a bit but he is 29. He will be 30 next June.

Whatever happens we’d have to replace him with a big signing and a big contract. Sometimes it is prudent to have an eye on what is happening right now and not always be building and looking to the future.

[RedReet]

Even ignoring the fact that Mo is a machine and should have a longer career than most mortals, with modern science and players looking after themselves so much better, 30 isn't the same benchmark it was 10+ years ago in football.

When Madrid bought the likes of Zidane and Figo, they were 28/29 which I would say is equivalent to 30/31 in the modern game.

I recently listed all the recent Ballon D'or and golden boot winners and the lists were dominated by players in their 30's. There is absolutely no reason to believe that Mo won't be heavily involved in all these awards for the next 4-5 years.

[Exiled_red]

Splitting hairs a bit but he is 29. He will be 30 next June.

Whatever happens we’d have to replace him with a big signing and a big contract. Sometimes it is prudent to have an eye on what is happening right now and not always be building and looking to the future.

If we try to replace like for like we'd be looking at someone like Haaland or Mbappe to get close to his current level, they would demand similar (if not higher) wages and would require either a transfer fee and/or a big signing on fee. And a few years down the road if they have progressed they would be demanding even bigger contacts. From that perspective a new contract for Mo looks the cheaper option.

The alternative is we don't replace like for like and use the money saved (or raise if we sold him) to bring in players in other positions (like we did bringing in Alisson and VVD when we sold Coutinho) but that requires us to already have someone in the squad to step up, and while you could argue we could go with Jota, Mane and Firmino, with all due respect that feels like a sizeable step down from where we are at the Mo (pun intended )

[gratziani]

Smashing records all over the place, quickest this fastest this 1st player to do this.

He is toying with defenders like they are his playthings

I ****ing love watching us this season with the fans back it has lifted the team back to previous seasons

[Shaggy]

[ame]https://twitter.com/MoSalah/status/1452633176761843715[/ame]

[peekay]

it was so frustrating when we lost Torres/Suarez/coutinho… but this would be 10 times worse cos the player himself actually wants to stay. He deserves what he’s asking for too. I feel like it will get done though. They’ll prob announce it over the January window to keep us happy, same way they did with hendos contract on deadline day… but in this instance it would actually work, for me at least, haha

As brilliant as Torres and Suarez were for us, they were never talked about as the best player in the world which Salah is right now. That is not just the LFC fans talking, it is the media, opposition fans, everyone has started to acknowledge him as the best in the world. A very unique situation for us as a club.

[Shaggy]

[ame]https://twitter.com/SkySportsStatto/status/1452619696436654087[/ame]

[Buzzo]

[Fosterbloke]

He'd score 50 a season in la liga. The premiership is definitely harder to score in, especially against the lower teams.

YNWA

I see Messi is scoring goals for fun in Ligue 1...

[Fosterbloke]

I think a three year deal at £350,000 a week sounds about right. He should be able to maintain these levels for at least three years.

[rodo]

https://fb.watch/8TlS4cBlOd/

Ben Foster on Mo

[RedReet]

https://fb.watch/8TlS4cBlOd/

Ben Foster on Mo

Decent bit of insight, but the Mo piece a bit anticlimactic, especially as he hit his next pen in the same spot.

[danperkins]

As I say I can see why the club and owners might be reluctant to break the wage structure but if we have the best player in the world and he wants to stay but we end up letting him go to a Real Madrid/Barcelona/PSG what message does that send out about us as a club? We would be back to being a team who can't/won't do what we need to in order to get to/stay at the top. I suspect that would piss off the fans, manager and make other players question their futures.