Report: Saudi Arabian clubs are already planning to make move to sign £34m Liverpool player next year

Saudi Arabian clubs are putting together a plan to sign Liverpool forward Mohamed Salah next year.

Saudi Arabian clubs are already planning to make move to sign £34m

That’s something journalist Ben Jacobs has confirmed for Fabrizio Romano’s Daily Briefing this morning. However, Jacobs claims that this is likely to be merely a temporary reprieve for Liverpool.

The journalist reports that it’s virtually certain the Saudis will ‘make an approach’ for Salah next summer. They are said to be ‘patient’ in their pursuit of both the Liverpool man and Tottenham Hotspur forward Son Heung-min.

Both players were not interested in leaving their respective English sides this year. When the knock comes next year though, it’s not yet known what their responses will be.

Saudis prepare Salah approach

Son is comfortably the biggest star of Asian football right now. As a result, it’s not surprising in the least that the Saudi Arabian project are making eyes at him.

Fair play to him for sticking to his guns and staying put at Spurs for the time being.

And as for Mo, well he’s long been the poster boy of Arabic football. To get him over and playing in the Middle East would be the coup of all coups for the Saudis.

As a result, you’d expect that Liverpool are already planning ahead for this.

Next year Salah will have just one year remaining on his deal. He’ll also be coming up to 32-years-old. If he has another season like the one just gone, this may still prove false, but it would feel like the right time to sell him.

Indeed, if Liverpool have any plans of making any kind of money on their biggest star of the past decade, it’s the only time to sell him. If he goes though, whoever buys the Egyptian will have to pay far more than the £34m Liverpool paid Roma for him in 2017.

 

As long as the Reds can plan properly and bring the right replacement in, Mo will go with the wishes of everyone. We’d rather keep him forever, he’s ours, but there’s always been a feeling that this won’t be possible. We’ll just have to enjoy him while we can.