Ex-Liverpool star makes major Mohamed Salah contract claim he won't want to hear

Liverpool person decisions to marque connected Mohamed Salah, Virgil van Dijk and Trent Alexander-Arnold, with each 3 players retired of declaration astatine the extremity of the existent season

Former Liverpool midfielder Didi Hamann believes the nine should prioritise caller deals for Virgil van Dijk and Trent Alexander-Arnold earlier doing the aforesaid for Mohamed Salah.

All 3 men are retired of declaration astatine the extremity of the season, with the nine yet to necktie immoderate of them down to an extension. Alexander-Arnold has been linked with Real Madrid, portion Salah could yet beryllium the taxable of renewed involvement from the Saudi Pro League after Liverpool knocked backmost a bid from Al-Ittihad successful 2023.

The Egypt guardant has 5 goals and 5 assists successful 10 outings for the Reds this season. He ended up with 1 of each connected Sunday, scoring from the punishment spot against erstwhile nine Chelsea and past laying connected the victor for Curtis Jones.

Despite this, Hamann is disquieted astir Salah's gifts waning arsenic helium gets older. For this reason, he's unsure an hold for the 32-year-old is the mode to go.

"At Mohamed Salah's age, his powers tin vanish astatine immoderate point," Hamann told Flashscore. "It's harder to enactment acceptable and astatine your champion arsenic a guardant arsenic you get older.

"I deliberation Liverpool should prioritise keeping Virgil van Dijk and Trent Alexander-Arnold, and instrumentality their clip connected Salah and spot if helium inactive scores tons of goals arsenic usual. If it's the close clip to portion ways, past Salah mightiness instrumentality a woody to spell to Saudi Arabia, we'll see."

Hamann besides suggested Liverpool tin triumph the league this word aft their "huge" triumph implicit Chelsea. "Manchester City person mislaid Rodri, helium can't beryllium replaced and Arsenal dropped points, I deliberation Liverpool person a large accidental to triumph the Premier League and spell acold successful the Champions League," the German added.

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Sunday's triumph leaves Liverpool apical of the league, but they're entering a pugnacious tally of games. After a midweek travel to RB Leipzig successful the Champions League, they volition look 3 of the Premier League's apical 5 sides successful the signifier of Arsenal, Brighton and Aston Villa.

"This is successful my sentiment our biggest test, to play Champions League and Premier League; the hardest games 3 days successful a row," Liverpool manager Arne Slot said aft the Chelsea game. "That's what [Manchester] City did past season, that's what Arsenal did - some of these clubs did this for 2 years successful a enactment now.

"You saw 2 years agone however hard that was for america and you saw past play however hard it was for [Manchester] United and Newcastle to beryllium progressive successful the Champions League and Premier League. That is for maine the trial we person to spell done to spot if we tin enactment oregon beryllium wherever we are now."

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