I’m oddly at peace with Mo’s contract situation. Would love him to stay a few more years, but very much understand in tue big picture it’s almost always better for the club to move on from a great player a year or two too soon than a year or two to late.
The famed front three has had an amazing run but has to start rotating and getting younger. The additions of Jota and Diaz already show this happening, and I’m just not sure how much I want to bet on Mo being more effective than Ronaldo at age 34
One of my best friends is from Finland (incidentally, was the CB partner of Hyppia in the Finish U21s). When he got married his best man was a friend from school in Helsinki and gave one of the greatest best man speeches I’ve ever experienced. The whole thing was about the difficulty the Finish temperament causes in a relationship, as it can be summed up by the phrase “I’ve told you once I love you. If I change my mind I’ll let you know.” It was funny because it was ridiculous…even in a relationship that was sealed with the promise of til death us do part the relationship is supposed to be constantly reinforced even though it has ostensibly already been committed to for life. Yet we’re going to talk shit about a footballer who has given our club so much for wanting to be careful checking in with his club before committing the final peak years of his career to a club?
Whilst I don’t agree with the words used, Klopp signing does make Salahs words about wanting to stay a little bit hollow. Klopp wanted to stay and has signed on the same pay level he was on, so no rise at all. So if money is irrelevant as Mo keeps saying he’d have signed already no?
Hopefully it was down to wanting to know the medium term structure if the club and he signs soon.
This is just me connecting my own dots from the article posted several posts back, where the writer provides more context to Mo’s answers.
My perception after reading that is Mo wants more years on his new deal that the club don’t necessarily feel comfortable doing.
And I have posted this opinion several times, but it’s extremely disappointing to me reading various emotional posts across the socials taking sides. Either Mo ‘being greedy’ or the club ‘being cheap’. It’s horseshit, and completely fabricated baseless opinion. Literally NO ONE outside of the club and Mo have any idea what’s being discussed or negotiated. Mo Salah has given us supporters amazing memories to last a lifetime. And if Mo does leave, the club deserve our support as they’ll without a doubt have a succession plan in place.
I just wish this all wasn’t so much in the public eye. But I suppose it’s impossible not be given MO’s stature as a world class player. We hear nothing of Sadio or Bobby’s, so I wish MO’s wouldn’t be.
We can compare one situation to another, but every situation is unique. Klopp signed an extension. Fantastic news. It is obviously right for him, his family, and definitely us too.
Mo hasn’t signed yet. He will do what is right for him and his family, and if that converges with our interests and he stays on longer, so much the better.
It’s not the sort of thing to get worked up about one way or the other. Arguably if we were on the bones of our arses and Mo was our only hope, we might feel differently, but as it stands, the club has never been in better shape, the squad is incredible, we are brilliant at all levels, and Klopp is building the next great Liverpool side in front of our eyes.
If Mo is in that, great. If he isn’t, good luck to him, and I am certain we will be quite fine.
Exactly, and he’s still a legend as Mo will be when he leaves.
I honestly don’t get the anger. Mo has every right to leave at the end of the contract we gave him. He has honoured it beyond measure. I hope he signs another one. If he doesn’t I’ll wish him all the best, treasure the memories and trust Klopp and his team to take us onwards and upwards
If I was about about to commit potentially my final career years to the club I would want to know that the Manager who has turned me into a superstar would be around for the majority of them.
Klopp already had 2 years remaining on his contract. Mo would be looking at a deal of 3 or 4 years. I think it unlikely Mo would have been pushing for Klopp to declare whether or not he intended to stay beyond those 2 years before he signed his own contract. Particularly given Klopp’s public comments in the past.
Personally I think he’ll retire from football and play a more gentlemanly sport, rugby. He’s been getting the practice in during our footy games and secretly as shown in this clip.
