Exclusive: Liverpool could reject potential £200m Saudi bid for Mo Salah explains Robbie Savage
Mohamed Salah of Liverpool
Planet Sport Bet ambassador Robbie Savage admits Mohamed Salah could set his family up for a ‘generation’ with Saudi money but believes Liverpool may opt to reject a potential £200m bid.
The Egypt international scored his second goal of the season as the Reds powered to a comfortable 3-0 victory over Aston Villa on Sunday.
Salah’s contract with Liverpool runs until the end of the 2024/25 campaign, though with Saudi Arabia’s Al-Ittihad knocking on the door, questions remain over his future.
The transfer window across Europe is shut, however Saudi clubs are still able to conduct business until Thursday, September 7.
According to recent reports, Al-Ittihad are pondering a £200m bid to sign the 31-year-old.
Ex-Premier League midfielder Robbie Savage rates Salah as one of Liverpool’s best ever forwards.
Nevertheless, he expects Liverpool turn down the potential world record bid.
He told Planet Sport: “Mohamed Salah is one of Liverpool’s greatest strikers. You look at [Kenny] Dalglish, you look at [Ian] Rush, you look at [Robbie] Fowler, you look at all the greats that Liverpool have had. Mo Salah undoubtedly is up there with those names. What a brilliant player.
“The transfer window is closed in our country but in Saudi Arabia it’s open until Thursday. That must be a huge worry for Liverpool.
“Surely everybody has a price. Credit to Mo Salah, he’s been playing with a smile on his face. Pictures of him leaving the training ground, waving, and smiling. It looks like the transfer speculation has not affected him.
“But there comes a point, surely, when every single player in world football has a price. If that price is £200m, what would Liverpool do?
“Inevitably, we all know football is a business. I know they couldn’t get anybody in now until January, but £200m, if that’s to be the offer, what would Liverpool do?
“Would Liverpool think ‘we have to accept that’ or would they just say ‘no’ flat out.
“One thing I’ve seen is that would not affect Mo Salah. He would keep his head down, keep playing to the best of his abilities like he did against Aston Villa.
“But then it comes to the personal side. Reports suggesting that Mo Salah is on £350,000 per week at Liverpool, he might get that a day playing for Al-Ittihad.
“Players already there: Benzema, Fabinho, Kante. An unbelievable opportunity to earn vast amount of money for not just Mo Salah’s family but the whole generation of family that Mo Salah could look after for the rest of his life. It’s just an obscene amount of money.
“What do I think will happen? I think there might be another bid in. How strong will Liverpool be? How strong will Mo Salah be? With the [English] transfer window closing now, Liverpool not being able to bring in other players, I think that Mo Salah will stay at Liverpool.
“I might be completely wrong. Mo Salah, I believe, will be a Liverpool player at least until January.”
