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Mohamed Salah: Saudi club could pay 'astonishing' £600m to make Liverpool star world's best-paid player
The Saudi Arabian club Al-Ittihad could have to pay an astonishing £600million to make Liverpool superstar Mohamed Salah the world’s highest-pad player.
But Liverpool will not entertain the prospect of their prize asset leaving Anfield, especially with only a week remaining in the transfer window to find a replacement.
They are braced for Al-Ittihad to make a move in the final week of the English window after reports in Saudi and Egypt claimed that the club’s interest has been reignited, barely two weeks after Salah’s agent Ramy Abbas claimed that his superstar client remained committed to Liverpool.
Cristiano Ronaldo is paid a reported £175m-a-year after his move to Al-Nassr from Manchester United, believed to be the highest salary in the history of football.
He signed on a two-year deal and Salah will be offered a longer deal, at least the three-year contract offered to, and signed, by his former Liverpool teammate Fabinho when he joined Al-Ittihad at the start of August.
The older Jordan Henderson, who is 33, signed a two-year deal with the club with the option of a third year.
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Salah, who turned 31 in June, is seven years younger than Ronaldo and is the most famous and marketable Arab sportsman in the world.
He also remains Liverpool’s star player and the first name on Jurgen Klopp’s team sheet despite the abundance of attacking talent at Anfield.
With two years left on the £350,000-a-week contract he signed last summer, Salah would still command a transfer fee well in excess of £70m, meaning the total package Al-Ittihad would have to pay to prise him from Liverpool would be around £600m.
That eye-watering sum appears unlikely with barely any time for the Merseysiders to sign a replacement this month but Liverpool have already discovered this summer that the financial might of Saudi clubs has changed the football landscape.
Salah could be targeted again next year with an equally lucrative deal even if time runs out to finalise a move before the Saudi window shuts next month.
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