Liverpool have ruled out promoting Mohamed Salah this summer if he signs a new contract.
Salah has entered the final 12 months of his contract with Liverpool and the Reds are reportedly trying to convince him to stay at Anfield beyond 2025. Captain Virgil van Dijk and vice-captain Trent Alexander-Arnold are also in the final years of their contracts. and Liverpool’s new behind-the-scenes hierarchy of Michael Edwards, Julian Ward and Richard Hughes will have to convince them all to stay.
Liverpool are unwilling to give updates on the progress of contract negotiations and that would only distract new head coach Arne Slot as he settles into Anfield. At Slot’s presentation on Friday at the club’s AXA education flat in Kirkby, Hughes spoke alongside the Dutchman to express the club’s stance on Salah, van Dijk and Alexander-Arnold.
Hughes did not need to say much, insisting that contract negotiations are personal matters between the club and its representatives, but said they expect all three to be fully committed to Liverpool next season.
That seems to rule out Liverpool promoting Salah before the Aug. 30 transfer deadline, and they rejected a £150m offer from Saudi Arabia just before the window closed a year ago. Saudi club Al-Ittihad would be offered what would have been a record. -Breaking his contract with Liverpool.
Al-Ittihad is reportedly following Salah’s position, there is nothing active at the moment. Sporting director Hughes said: “As far as contract situations, I don’t think it’s fair for me to talk about them.
“These are personal issues between the club and the players. The fear that Arne and I have with the conditions is the overall commitment of the players to the cause for next season and we are surely confident that this will be the case.
That course of action raises the option that Salah, who will return on Saturday for pre-season training, could also leave with Bosman next July, but Liverpool will possibly feel he is a threat worth taking on because of his price. the team.
Hughes is expecting a quiet July before moving activity reaches a crescendo next month and Liverpool may not be as busy as it was with many works of art last summer.
Hughes has struggled since his appointment at Bournemouth at the end of last season and says he will run with Slot.
“It’s wonderful to paint with Arne,” he said. Obviously it’s a tricky position at the start because we had paintings to finish and there was a vital season to finish at Liverpool.
“Since then we have communicated on many topics: logistics, organization and, of course, the preparation of the moving window.
“This is something we will know more about as we spend more time with the existing team and we are very pleased to have inherited a very talented team. “We have to improve, we have to improve in the educational field and with the window open we will be opportunistic if we can. If we can improve certain spaces as we go along, we will look to do so.
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