Al-Hilal issue statement on Mo Salah transfer after bombshell on Liverpool future

Mohamed Salah is having his champion play successful a Liverpool garment aft blitzing 26 goals and providing 18 assists, but his aboriginal inactive looks bleak, with a Saudi Pro League determination looking astir likely

Al-Hilal brag Jorge Jesus has admitted helium wants to motion Liverpool prima Mohamed Salah this summertime and believes the Egyptian guardant would "fit the team".

Salah looks acceptable to permission Anfield astatine the extremity of the play connected a escaped transportation aft failing to hold a caller contract. The 32-year-old has repeatedly insisted this volition beryllium his last play arsenic Liverpool subordinate and that helium is "more retired than in".

The guardant is having his champion play successful a Liverpool garment aft blitzing 26 goals and providing 18 assists to pb Liverpool towards the Premier League title, but his aboriginal is inactive uncertain, with a Saudi Pro League move highly touted.

Now Jesus has added substance to the occurrence by candidly revealing helium would similar to person Salah successful his star-studded squad arsenic Al-Hilal question a replacement for Neymar - who rejoined his boyhood nine Santos past month.

Speaking successful an interrogation with Canal11, the erstwhile Benfica brag said: "I would similar to person Salah astatine Al-Hilal, helium has a mode of playing that fits the team."

This is not the archetypal clip Jesus has spoken astir a imaginable determination for Salah, aft antecedently admitting the subordinate could articulation successful the summertime alternatively than successful January. He said: "Mo Salah oregon different large players volition not articulation this winter, but possibly for adjacent season."

Salah's latest comments successful January saw him assertion his squad were "far distant from immoderate progress" successful declaration talks with Liverpool.

When asked again if this was his past play astatine the club, helium replied: "So far, yes. It’s the last six months. There is nary advancement there. We are acold distant from immoderate progress. So, we conscionable request to hold and see."

It comes aft Salah's erstwhile Liverpool team-mate and adjacent person Dejan Lovren claimed the subordinate was not respected capable astatine Anfield and said helium was much apt to permission aft 8 years.

"We are inactive successful touch. We speech each present and then, yes," Lovren said. "I person to beryllium cautious what I accidental now, due to the fact that I cognize a batch of things. Honestly, I don’t cognize the nonstop numbers, but immoderate he’s asking for, I deliberation helium deserves it. It’s simple, this feline is doing his occupation connected the pitch.

"I tin speech successful much detail. Salah believes that determination are things missing from the nine side, and I anticipation they’ll beryllium resolved soon. But the existent world is that he’s person to leaving than staying.

"Everyone wants him to stay, and I personally privation him to stay. I called him 1 time and said: 'Mo, you person to deliberation astir yourself. Look astatine everything you've fixed this nine and what you tin inactive give.'"

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