August 21, (THEWILL) – Liverpool manager Jurgen Klopp has hinted that the English Premier League club are in talks with their pacy Egyptian Mohamed Salah over a new contract in the side’s strategy of securing the long-term availability of their best players.
Salah still has two years remaining in his current Anfield deal but Liverpool has been renewing the contracts of similarly signed players. Recently, the quartet of Trent Alexander-Arnold, Alisson Becker, Fabinho and Virgil van Dijk all had their contracts extended to guarantee their commitments.
Liverpool is now hoping that fresh terms with Salah can be agreed for the same reasons and that was at the basis of what Klopp admitted was natural to assume that talks would be ongoing with Salah. However, he diplomatically refused to elaborate, saying he would only talk openly on the subject once an official announcement has been made.
The German coach said to the club’s website: “I am involved in pretty much everything in the club. Maybe some talks happen without me, that’s possible, but apart from that I know about all the things. It’s how it always is: we don’t really speak about these kinds of things.
“I know we changed that obviously a little bit with Hendo but that doesn’t mean we will talk from now on, tell you about each little step we make in any kind of negotiation and stuff like this.
“Mo is obviously in a really, really good moment football-wise, mood-wise, how he behaved from the first day when he came back, absolutely great. We are all adults, we are all professionals. When there are talks then there are talks – and when there is a decision we will tell you.
“Until then, it’s only important how the parties work together in these things; it’s not about Mo, it’s more in general. If that’s perfect, what it is, then we don’t have to talk about anything else and the decisive people can talk in the background. With two years left you can imagine there are talks, that’s it.”
The Reds welcome Burnley to Anfield in one of Saturday’s fixtures where they can get back-to-back victories after opening the 2021/2022 season with a 3-0 victory over returning EPL side Norwich at Carrow Road in Norfolk last Saturday.
Jude Obafemi is a versatile senior Correspondent at THEWILL Newspapers, excelling in sourcing, researching, and delivering sports news stories for both print and digital publications.
