Mohamed Salah is leaving Liverpool.
The Egyptian King is bringing the curtain down on a glorious, trophy-laden spell at Anfield.
Signed from Roma in 2017 Salah has won all there is to win with the Reds - and has picked up a plethora of individual honours along the way.
The 33-year-old will leave as a bonafide club legend - in many supporters’ eyes the greatest player in Liverpool history.
And having suffered a hamstring injury against Crystal Palace on Saturday Salah may have ALREADY played his final game as a Red.
It wasn’t supposed to be like this.
Last season when Salah was closing in on the Premier League title, golden boot, playmaker award and the top flight’s player of the year honour he was signed to a new contract.
With his previous deal running out in summer 2025 sporting director Richard Hughes reached an agreement with the two-time African footballer of the year.
Salah inked a two-year renewal - taking him to 2027 on a reported wage of £400k per week. That deal has unravelled however followed a poor campaign for both Salah and Liverpool as a whole under Arne Slot.
He fired shots at the club having been left out of the lineup for a league game at Leeds - a low point in his relations with his employers.
And now that it looks like Salah wouldn’t be a key player going forward - with Slot opting to replace and rotate him - a compromise was reached over his expensive contract.
Rather than kicking his heels on the bench for another season - draining the club of around £20m in wages - Salah’s deal was ripped up a year early.
Salah is now entitled to find himself a new club and he won’t be short of offers.
Paul Joyce in the Times has now cast Salah’s exit in a new light - claiming that it was SALAH who approached Liverpool about cutting up his deal and not the other way around.
“Salah’s contract was due to expire in 2027, but he approached the club about terminating the deal this summer following a fallout with Slot, who had dropped him to the bench for three successive games,” his report reads.
Salah has been heavily linked with a move to the Saudi Pro League - where Al-Qadsiah and Al-Ittihad are reportedly keen on securing his signature.
He also has interest from Egyptian-owned San Diego FC in MLS - with the American league preparing to pull out all the stops to secure his signing following the FIFA World Cup this summer.
