Michael Owen shares his view on Mohamed Salah Liverpool contract row - 'My sources tell me'

Mohamed Salah is present expected to permission Liverpool successful the summertime and erstwhile striker Michael Owen believes the quality implicit a caller woody is not down to money

Michael Owen thinks Liverpool supporters are close to fume astatine the nine implicit Mohamed Salah ’s declaration stand-off.

But the erstwhile striker reckons the large contented mightiness beryllium Salah, 32, demanding a semipermanent woody alternatively than a quality implicit wages.

The Egyptian, whose existent presumption expire adjacent June, said helium was “more retired than in” erstwhile asked astir his aboriginal aft Sunday’s travel from down triumph astatine Southampton. And Owen has revealed whispers from adjacent to the campy suggest Salah, who presently earns £350,000 a week, is looking for a multi-year deal.

“I deliberation fans astir the world 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."

Salah remains successful tip-top carnal signifier and has recovered the nett 12 times successful 16 starts crossed each competitions truthful acold this season.

But portion that points to Salah not being connected the wane conscionable yet, Owen reckons the nine volition beryllium mindful of the information property volition drawback up with him astatine immoderate point.

Owen added: “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.' 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.’”

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