Mo Salah has stated this season might be his “last year” at Liverpool.
Talking after Liverpool’s 3-0 Premier League win at Manchester United – the place Salah had a hand in all three targets – the ahead stated: “I had an excellent summer season and had a very long time to myself to attempt to keep optimistic.
“As you know, it’s my last year at the club.
“I simply wish to get pleasure from it and I do not wish to give it some thought. I really feel like I am free to play soccer after which we’ll see what occurs subsequent yr.”
Nonetheless, Sky Sports activities pundit Jamie Carragher has predicted Salah may but keep on.
“I would be very surprised if Salah isn’t playing for Liverpool next season,” stated Carragher.
Salah arrange Luis Diaz’s double after which scored a 3rd to silence Previous Trafford on Tremendous Sunday, earlier than showing to substantiate his Liverpool exit on the finish of this season when interviewed post-match.
He continued: “Coming into the game, I said it could be the last time [I play here with Liverpool].
“No-one on the membership has spoken to me about contracts, so I am similar to: ‘OK, I am taking part in my final season’ and see what occurs on the finish of the season.
“It’s not up to me, but nobody’s talked to me from the club. We will see.”
Salah, whose contract expires subsequent summer season, has been at Anfield for the reason that summer season of 2017, when he signed from Roma for a then club-record price.
Will Salah actually depart Liverpool subsequent summer season? The Sky Sports activities pundits have their say
Jamie Carragher: “I think Mo Salah is obsessed, like Ronaldo, with records and longevity. Most of us think, when you get to 35, you’re done in football. The way that lad looks after himself, I think he’s thinking of playing until he’s 40, or late 30s at least. I don’t think a Saudi situation is on the cards next season. He’s too good. He’s playing in the best league in the world, for one of the biggest clubs in the world.
“Whether or not it is in one other season or two seasons’ time, he is alongside Kenny Dalglish and Steven Gerrard as the highest gamers to play for Liverpool. He is presumably the very best extensive participant we have seen within the Premier League, even when hasn’t bought the medals that perhaps some others have gotten. In fact you struggle to maintain him. It is not about throwing cash at him. It is not what you’ve got achieved up to now, it is what you are doing sooner or later.
“When you get into your mid-30s, you can’t do what you did before – but he might be different. Of course Liverpool want to keep him and Virgil van Dijk, but it will probably be about wages. Are they still on the same wages because, in the next two or three years, will they still be the same players? That’s the debate that will be had.
“I’d be very stunned if Salah is not taking part in for Liverpool subsequent season as a result of I feel he’ll wish to blitz each document within the membership’s historical past.”
Roy Keane: “He is in command of that [his contract]. I do know golf equipment have insurance policies about letting gamers’ contracts run down after they get to 31, 32, however he’ll resolve what he desires to do.
“They’ll obviously have to offer him a contract – he’s their main player. But put it this way: he will have plenty of options.”