Wish they would rather not comment.
https://x.com/LewisSteele_/status/1860982324659155267
Just in case the video needs further validation (the times we live in, ehâŚ). What on Earth is going on at this club? FSG, Edwards and Hughes should be paying Slot extra for teamâs results up to this point because they provided zero strengthening to the side last summer and they are fumbling the contracts of three key players.
Fully agree with @redalways, thatâs elite mentality from Salah. Simultaneously putting pressure on them to extend his contract, while doing everything he can on the pitch to show heâs worth it.
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Before the pitchforks come out, clubs sources have already responded and said that talks with Abbas are ongoing and positive. It is likely that a formal offer will be placed once a verbal agreement has been reached.
Salah isnât doing himself any favours by trying to publicly apply pressure to the club hierarchy.
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If the offer is not forthcoming at the moment, IMO, it doesnât translate that negotiations havenât been happening along the way.
Could be LFC are monitoring interest in MO from other clubs, or could be waiting for his agent to show his definitive hand firstâŚ
Could be the contract is being drafted right at this moment⌠Squeezing down the timeline week by week might be a âwho blinks firstâ tactic LFC are prepared to riskâŚ!
Bottom line in all this⌠It doesnât matter one jot if every fan on the planet wants MO to stay, it is whether AS wants him to stay. That is the over-riding factor in this⌠If AS gives the green light to keep him ;and he may still be undecided himself; then Iâm sure LFC will pull out the stops to make it happenâŚ!
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What the fuck are Hughes and co doing? This is starting to really grate on my ballsacks now.
Get your 2 best players signed up, it shouldnât be that fucking difficult like. Donât want to hear anymore âyeah but talks are ongoingâ bullshit, itâs been ongoing for over a year now.
Perhaps, or maybe heâs so focused on the football heâs not aware of the developments (probably unlikely).
Holding talks with Salahâs agent, apparently, but you crack on.
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6 months of talk to get where exactly? You heard it from the horses mouth, no fucking offer received. This is indefensible so let me rephrase, what the fuck has Hughes and co done?
Is there a link for this?
My post-match thoughts. Really hope itâs being sorted but fans do have a right to question why itâs taking so long. Moâs obv not happy or wouldnât be giving this interview, though fair play to him that itâs not affecting his performances
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Iâve felt for a while that there wonât be any new offers, and this video now feels like confirmation.
If so, it would have already happened, thereâs actually no reason to leave everything in limbo for so long, unless theyâre just waiting for the right moment to announce it. On the other hand, if the club wants to let him go, there will be no announcement.
Anything else would be counterproductive.
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Good of Mo to make those comments ahead of the week we have coming up
The least important game against RM ever, then City when heâll probably score the winner again. Itâs not affecting his performances and am sure his teammates just want him to stay
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Is it the same agent as last time?
If I recall, there were similar games played during the last contract renewal with the agent dragging things on and the media leveraged to maximize the deal for Salah. Despite the clubâs best efforts - it was pushed all the way to the wire.
Maybe this will be the strategy this time around as well and maybe Salah knows he is going to sign in the end but will allow the agent to keep pushing until the end. Or maybe he really is considering. But ultimately, the agent did well for his client and wouldnât be surprised if he repeated the same tactic again because it works.
It takes two parties to sign a deal so I donât know the rationale behind criticising without knowing the specifics.
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From what Pearce says which isnât gospel but odd it got such a quick push it suggests they are trying negotiate all three. I assume they donât want to end up having to pay pay and pay more.
I still reckon we see two of them stay as there is too much work to lose all 3.
Wouldnât be Liverpool FC without some âcrisisâ happening.
I do hope FSG donât announce a ÂŁ1 on season tickets again
Last time Mo came out and said he was open to joining City.
The club are in talks with his representatives. I personally think Mo opening his mouth like suggests a deal isnât far off.
This is like fans kicking off at clubs for not bidding for players. That isnât how it works. There wonât be an offer until everyone is happy with the broad arrangements. The offer goes in when its ready to be signed.
PS. What has Hughes done? I donât know. I donât work at the club. Maybe appoint a really, really good manager?
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I agree. I think the club have taken the position that 350k/week is just not happening and they are waiting for that to sink in before tabling an offer. My guess is that they will want something less than they will offer Virg and, unless Mo is willing to do a 1 year deal, I think something closer to 200k. If the club get Virg signed up then Iâm okay with how theyâve done it; if they get Trent as well then Iâd say they have played it expertly.
By the way, in terms of kicking off at the club, the fans can sometimes get on my tits. Fucking unacceptable. Fucking negligent. Fucking criminal⌠blah blah blah.
They havenât accidentally forgotten to tie down Mo, Virgil and Trent. People are broadly competent. Weâre not Man Utd.
Timeline this out.
Whatâs two years before these contracts expire, when you would normally look to renew? Summer 2023.
Summer 2023 Liverpool have just finished outside the top four for the first time in ages, and the Sporting Director has just unexpectedly left, only a year after being appointed.
Without a sporting director, and Liverpool looking like they might go backwards as much as forwards, it might just not have been in anyoneâs interests to start sorting out contracts. Mo Salah was one year into a new three year deal, and all three players might have been cautious without seeing how the club planned to return to the top. Without a SD it might not have been possible anyway.
In November Klopp announces he is leaving, and that probably puts the brakes on any contract talk until a new manager is appointed, and as Schmadtke is leaving with Klopp, we then need to wait for a new SD. The players arenât going to sign new contracts until they know who the manager is and get a sense of whether theyâll like working with him.
So, I think this is all a bit down to unusual circumstances. I donât see how the club is sorting out contract renewals 18 months ago without an SD, and I think the players might have been reluctant given where the club was. Once Klopp hands in his notice, the top players arenât going to sign up for a project they donât yet know anything about.
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While I agree with this I donât think
is an excuse. They could/should have been able to get Trent resigned as part of the Captain of Vice promotion. Given his resale and commerical home grown value, it was never a case that a contract offer for him would be âtoo generous and onerousâ. While VVD and Mo are arguably quite a lot more important on the field, given their ages itâs much more understandable that lacking a SD it would be harder to authorise the amounts they might have needed (plus I take your point re uncertainty over Klopp/direction etc).