‘I was a Liverpool contract rebel – this is what I’m hearing about Mohamed Salah’s future’

Michael Owen believes that 1 happening is stalling declaration negotiations betwixt Liverpool and their prized plus Mohamed Salah.

Salah scored 2 goals astatine the play to rescue a 3-2 triumph for his broadside against Southampton and widen their pb astatine the apical of the table.

However, contempt his electrical commencement to the season, the Egyptian inactive faces an uncertain aboriginal with the Reds with his declaration acceptable to expire astatine the extremity of the season.

And the 32-year-old was keen to vent his vexation aft Sunday’s match, telling reporters helium had yet to person an connection for a caller woody and that helium was ‘disappointed’ by the deficiency of dialogue.

‘We are astir successful December and I haven’t received an connection to enactment astatine the nine yet truthful I americium astir apt much retired than in,’ Salah said.

‘I’m not going to discontinue soon. I’m focusing connected the play and I’m trying to triumph the Premier League and hopefully the Champions League arsenic well. I’m disappointed but we volition see.’

While the comments drew disapproval from Reds fable Jamie Carragher, Owen, who himself turned down a caller declaration astatine Anfield to motion with Real Madrid successful 2004, suggested the crushed determination had been nary breakthrough successful negotiations was down to 1 elemental thing.

‘I deliberation fans astir the satellite volition beryllium precise annoyed astatine the club,’ Owen told Optus Sport. ‘If that’s the lawsuit – and I can’t ideate Mo Salah is going to prevarication – past it’s truly atrocious from the club’s constituent of view.

‘My inkling, and I mightiness beryllium wrong, but what I perceive is that Mo Salah is wanting a longer-term contract.

‘When you’re young, you privation abbreviated contracts, support the desirability, support them abbreviated and support everybody wanting you. When you’re older of people you privation stableness and you privation to beryllium secure.

Owen continued: ‘He’s precise antithetic – he’s arsenic acceptable arsenic fiddle and he’s inactive banging them in. But if he’s going successful [to negotiations] and asking for 5 years past rightly truthful the nine volition deliberation that’s excessively long.

‘So possibly they’re not adjacent sitting down due to the fact that Mo has said ‘Well I’m not going to speech to you if you are not going to springiness you 5 years”, let’s say.

‘And I don’t cognize wholly but my sources archer maine it’s much of a word problem.

‘One happening that Mo Salah has got the caput commencement connected is he’s conscionable done that interrogation and consecutive distant the fans are going to beryllium thinking, “What are you doing, Liverpool Football Club”.’

It is not conscionable Salah who faces an uncertain aboriginal successful Arne Slot’s side, with cardinal antiaircraft duo Virgil van Dijk and Trent Alexander-Arnold some escaped to speech to different clubs successful January arsenic their respective contracts tally down.

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