Gigantic Richard Hughes transfer fumble will cost Liverpool £86m to fix
Liverpool and Mohamed Salah are parting ways at the end of the season. The Egyptian King announced earlier this week that he would be leaving the club - despite his contract running until 2027. Sporti...
Gigantic Richard Hughes transfer fumble will cost Liverpool £86m to fix Liverpool and Mohamed Salah are parting ways at the end of the season. The Egyptian King announced earlier this week that he would be leaving the club - despite his contract running until 2027. Sporting director Richard Hughes will therefore allow Liverpool’s highest-paid player to walk out the door for nothing.
That was exactly the kind of scenario the club feared - prompting a mammoth two-year contract extension towards the back end of last season. With Salah leading the club to the Premier League title - and sweeping the board for individual honours - the decision was made to tie him down. If Salah was firing on all cylinders this deal would have made some kind of sense.
But the fact of the matter is whether due to a lack of form - or misuse from Arne Slot - Salah isn’t the player he was. The writing has been on the wall for his Liverpool career for quite some time. Insiders indicate that the row with Arne Slot in December at Elland Road as the point of no return.
Liverpool stuck with Salah in January But the Premier League champions declined to offload Salah in January - when Saudi clubs were thinking it would take £100m to sign him. So Liverpool go into the market with a profound need for a starting right winger - and they won’t have any Salah-cash to fund a deal. All of which makes the decision to stay out of the race for Rayan in January all the more baffling.