Mo Salah discussed his next move with Gary Lineker – and Liverpool star even winked

Mohamed Salah has offered a hint arsenic to wherever helium mightiness determination to adjacent according to Gary Lineker, who bumped into the guardant astatine Liverpool's grooming crushed past month

The declaration standoff betwixt Liverpool and Mohamed Salah mightiness beryllium tense, but it doesn't look to beryllium stressing the Egyptian out.

With lone 5 months remaining connected his existing contract, speculation surrounding Salah's aboriginal continues to tally rife. If helium fails to hold an hold successful the coming weeks, helium volition permission Anfield for thing astatine the extremity of the season.

If that happens, determination volition presumably beryllium plentifulness of offers connected the array for the 32-year-old, though a determination to the Saudi Pro League looks likeliest. Last month, erstwhile visiting Liverpool's grooming crushed to interrogation Arne Slot, Gary Lineker bumped into Salah, who offered the Match of the Day big a small penetration into his reasoning up of a imaginable summertime exit.

"He's a beauteous guy," Lineker said connected The Rest Is Football podcast. "I spent 10 minutes with him erstwhile I went to sojourn Arne Slot."

Co-host Alan Shearer asked: "Did you not get it retired of him whether he's staying oregon going oregon not?" Lineker replied: "I didn't, no. He was conscionable being funny. He asked me, 'how aged were you erstwhile you finished?' And I said, 'well, English shot I finished erstwhile I was 32 and past I went to play successful Japan for a mates of years'.

"And helium went, 'ahh, you went for the wealth did you?' And I said, 'well yea I accidental so'. And helium went, '...Yeah, I mightiness bash the same'. He [then] winked astatine the property feline that was there. It was conscionable a joke. But helium has got that cheeky consciousness of humour."

Despite the anticipation of a summertime departure, Liverpool supporters are clinging to the anticipation that Salah volition determine to prolong his tenure successful Merseyside. His uncertain aboriginal hasn't dampened his on-field performance, with the Salah scoring 25 goals crossed each competitions this season, matching past season's full already.

His goal-scoring prowess has propelled Liverpool to the apical of the charts, some astatine location and successful Europe. The Reds person a six-point pb implicit Arsenal, who beryllium 2nd successful the Premier League, pursuing their 2-0 triumph against Bournemouth connected Saturday courtesy of a Salah double, and they could widen their pb to 9 points if they triumph their crippled successful manus against Everton adjacent Wednesday.

They besides topped the Champions League league signifier table, securing 7 victories from their 8 matches. In the past 16, they'll spell up against either PSG, Brest, Monaco oregon Benfica, depending connected the outcomes of the play-offs and the gully for the consequent round.

Salah's predicament isn't unsocial astatine Anfield. Both Trent Alexander-Arnold and Virgil van Dijk person little than six months near connected their existent contracts, truthful Liverpool hazard losing each 3 players astatine the extremity of the play for thing if declaration extensions aren't negotiated and signed.

Real Madrid are optimistic astir securing Alexander-Arnold, with the defender reportedly verbally committing to a determination to the Bernabeu recently. Van Dijk, meanwhile, is expected to stay astatine Anfield, though a caller declaration has not been finalised yet.

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