Salah contract saga ends as Liverpool make announcement (VIDEO)

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Mo Salah’s future has been decided after an announcement from the Anfield membership

Liverpool supporters are respiratory a sigh of reduction amid the information that the membership’s talisman Mo Salah has signed a brand new three-year deal to increase his keep at Anfield.

The 30-year-old Egyptian celebrity had simply 12 months remaining on his present contract with the previous English and European champions, and his future had turn into the supply of a lot debate inside European soccer circles – with a number of of the continent’s greatest golf equipment understood to have surveyed the opportunity of touchdown him on a cut-price deal this summer time, or as a free agent subsequent 12 months.

However Salah and Liverpool drew a line by way of that hypothesis on Friday once they agreed phrases to an enormous £350,000 ($ 421,000) per week three-year contract, one thing which will likely be a big increase to Jurgen Klopp simply days out from his first-team squad reporting again to the membership for preseason coaching.

Salah, who has scored a formidable 156 objectives in 254 appearances in 5 years with the membership, celebrated the brand new contract, saying: “I really feel nice and [I am] excited to win trophies with the membership. It’s a contented day for everybody.

“It takes a bit little bit of time, I believe, to resume, however now all the things is completed so we simply must deal with what’s subsequent.

“I believe you possibly can see within the final 5 – 6 years the group was all the time going [upwards]. Final season we had been near successful 4, however sadly within the final week of the season we misplaced two trophies.

“I believe we’re in a very good place to combat for all the things. We now have new signings as nicely. We simply must preserve working laborious, have a very good imaginative and prescient, be constructive and go for all the things once more.”

There have been actual fears throughout the membership that Salah could decide to go away, significantly after the primary spherical of talks late final 12 months broke down between each events – however the considerably improved supply, which makes him the membership’s highest-paid participant ever, satisfied him to join three extra years.

The retention of Salah comes simply days after his strike accomplice Sadio Mane left Liverpool to hitch Bayern Munich – with the prospect of dropping each gamers in the identical switch window (and even inside a 12 months of one another) one thing which was possible the supply of nightmares for the Liverpool devoted. 

Uruguay striker Darwin Nunez has been drafted in from Benfica at nice expense to fill the goalscoring void left by the Senegalese. 

Salah and Liverpool’s focus will now flip to their bid at reclaiming the Premier League crown from Manchester Metropolis, whose latest signing of Norwegian ace Erling Haaland is more likely to make them an much more formidable opponent – however Liverpool, now reloaded with a content material Salah, will definitely fancy their possibilities.