Mohamed Salah contract latest: Liverpool under pressure from forward for new deal in January transfer window

Mohamed Salah and his representatives person ramped up the unit connected Liverpool to renew his declaration earlier it expires successful the summer, according to Reds adept David Lynch.

The Egyptian has arguably been the champion subordinate successful the Premier League this season, scoring 17 goals and assisting 13 times successful conscionable 18 appearances successful the apical flight.

Salah has fired the Reds to first spot successful the Premier League and the Champions League tables, and helium volition nary uncertainty relish the accidental to pb his broadside to different victory against Manchester United this Sunday.

With the January transportation model present open, Lynch told Sports Mole that Salah is ramping up unit connected Liverpool to widen his contract, alternatively than looking for a determination to clubs specified arsenic Paris Saint-Germain, saying: "[A determination to PSG would] beryllium a distant 2nd to getting the woody helium wants astatine Liverpool.

"Stories volition commencement to circulate present - unit is being ramped up from [Salah's] representatives to effort and get Liverpool to bash the deal. If [Liverpool] are disquieted astir these stories astatine all, there's a existent elemental mode of stopping them being connected the backmost pages, which is to get that woody done.

"We are getting to the constituent present successful January wherever you request to spot 1 of these [contract extensions] getting done soon due to the fact that large questions are starting to beryllium asked and there's unit connected the sporting director, peculiarly aft a quiescent summertime wherever the main people was missed retired on."

Sporting manager Richard Hughes has lone been successful spot since the summer, but has truthful acold failed to travel to presumption with Salah, Trent Alexander-Arnold oregon Virgil van Dijk, who are each acceptable to permission Anfield for escaped astatine the extremity of the play arsenic things stand.

Why Salah's signifier is pressurising Liverpool

While Salah's representatives person been applying unit to the Merseysiders disconnected the pitch, the forward's signifier connected the transportation has enactment the nine successful an awkward presumption arsenic nonaccomplishment to travel to presumption would marque Liverpool look somewhat amateurish.

The attacker has been straight progressive successful 52 goals successful 2024 - 29 goals and 23 assists successful each competitions - and this was much than each different subordinate crossed Europe's apical 5 leagues.

Salah is averaging a extremity oregon assistance each 52.7 minutes successful the apical flight, and this is the champion ever instrumentality successful the past of the Premier League, and 2 much goals connected the play would instrumentality his league tally to 176, 1 much than Thierry Henry.

Lynch expressed his content that Salah is connected way to surpass galore of the league's top players and interruption galore much records, telling Sports Mole: "It's record-breaking worldly what he's doing and helium has been doing it for years and years, but adjacent this play helium seems to person picked up a level. He could beryllium connected for adjacent his ain champion play successful the Liverpool shirt, which didn't look imaginable erstwhile helium had that 44-goal play [in 2017-18].

"He volition beryllium eyeing up that Thierry Henry 24 goals, 20 assists [season], and that feels wrong the realms of anticipation due to the fact that Liverpool are not adjacent astatine the halfway people successful presumption of the games played due to the fact that they inactive person that Everton game. He's got a batch of accidental to get determination and he's ever disposable which is 1 of his existent superpowers - alongside however bully helium is.

"You conscionable consciousness assured that determination are going to beryllium much records to beryllium breached betwixt present and the extremity of the play due to the fact that he's perpetually connected the transportation and he's perpetually brilliant, truthful truly excited to spot wherever this tin go."

Salah is presently connected way to people 35 goals and supply 27 assists successful the Premier League, and considering however good the guardant looks aft his fitness, the nine would look important backlash if they allowed the Egyptian to permission successful the summertime due to the fact that of his age.

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Are declaration negotiations opening to interaction Liverpool?

Salah has often made remarks astir the deficiency of advancement successful negotiations with Liverpool, including up of his side's lucifer against Manchester United connected Sunday.

While Liverpool person lone mislaid erstwhile successful each competitions this season, rumours surrounding Salah, Van Dijk and Alexander-Arnold person accrued successful caller weeks.

Trent has been the taxable of bids from Real Madrid this month, and his refusal to authorities that helium wants to enactment astatine Anfield beyond this play - similar Salah and Van Dijk person - has fuelled speculation that his penchant is to permission the club.

With Liverpool favourites to triumph the Premier League, allowing the trio to tally down their contracts and disrupt the play would beryllium unfathomable, but Lynch did archer Sports Mole that determination is optimism astir Salah perchance extending his enactment connected Merseyside, saying: "I conscionable don't consciousness that there's immoderate appetite for Mohamed Salah to articulation PSG astatine this point. It's a overmuch weaker league that doesn't get anyplace adjacent the level of sum and he's conscionable excessively bully to spell there.

"He's truthful hopeless and has made it wide that helium wants to enactment astatine Liverpool, truthful he's intelligibly fixed precedence to that. It's conscionable a lawsuit of tin [Liverpool] marque the numbers work, and evidently astatine the infinitesimal [they're] not rather there, but the anticipation is there's inactive immoderate clip to get it done."

Salah is reported to beryllium the highest earner astatine Liverpool, and portion helium whitethorn beryllium demanding a wage increase, helium has truthful acold shown that helium is deserving of a declaration befitting 1 of the world's champion players.

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