Yes there is a rumour that the two parties had agreed a compromise of a 2 Year extension as the club was only offering one year and Abbas was negotiating for a 3 years extension, the money was never the stumbling block as he would have been on the same money. Virgil is not far off either same 2 year extension. There is no progress for Trent.
I read it in the mirror online I tried to drag the small article but couldn’t probably a clickbait? It did sort of make sense to me.
The BBC sports app have confirmed the rumour in their gossip column “Salah on the brink of Liverpool deal”
On TAN, an ITK by the name of Fred Gthered. It’s a bit hush hush so the details are sparse but the guy is connected: his second cousin is friends with an Anfield insider who filled in for Claire the cleaning lady and she heard that Mo was seen laughing after signing up to a two year discount deal for his ethically sourced fair trade arabica single origin coffee beans. It’s hard to argue that Mo would make such a significant commitment (you have to pay a redelivery surcharge if you change addresses, let alone clubs!) without first locking down his work future.
Mo has been brilliant for us, so any criticism I’m about to give him now is in that context.
Today I thought he was playing for himself a little bit too much. I know, I know, all great strikers are selfish. I get that. But I just thought he gave the impression that he knows his own stats and wants to boost them. Also, a few times he was slightly off the pace and slightly not strong enough.
He didn’t have a stinker, far from that, but he has done so well, so often, that when he’s average it looks like a stinker by his own standards.
I know Slot has been praising Mo’s work defensively but in the last 2 games I cannot recollect Mo helping Trent defensively, Robinson just had the whole left side to attack the whole game, Mo never tracked him once that I can think of.