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Mohamed Salah landed a bumper new contract through to 2025 and vowed to repay Liverpool’s belief in him by firing Jurgen Klopp’s Reds to more trophies.
Uncertainty over the Egyptian forward’s future had lingered for months, with no clear sign of a breakthrough in negotiations between the club and the player’s representatives until a deal was announced on Friday.
With Sadio Mane being allowed to leave for Bayern Munich since the end of last season, the importance of securing Salah was ramped up, and now the 30-year-old has confirmed he will stay at Anfield.
He could have walked away at the end of the 2022-23 season on a free transfer, had he not agreed to new terms, but that worrying prospect has been quashed.
With at least three years more to come of his Anfield career, Salah is convinced he and Liverpool can enjoy huge success in that time.
They threatened a quadruple last term before just missing out to Manchester City in the Premier League title race and losing 1-0 to Real Madrid in the Champions League final, having already pouched the FA Cup and EFL Cup.
Salah said of his new deal: “It takes a little bit of time, I think, to renew, but now everything is done so we just need to focus on what’s next.
“I think you can see in the last five or six years the team was always going [upwards]. Last season we were close to winning four, but unfortunately in the last week of the season we lost two trophies.
“I think we are in a good position to fight for everything. We have new signings as well. We just need to keep working hard, have a good vision, be positive and go for everything again.”
In an interview for Liverpool’s official website, Salah spoke of the departure of Mane to the Bundesliga and the arrival of Uruguayan frontman Darwin Nunez from Benfica, as manager Jurgen Klopp shuffles his pack.
“I’m so excited, I want to play with him,” Salah said of Nunez. “He had a good season last season and played well against us home and away [in the Champions League].
“Sadio’s leaving, and I’m going to miss him, he had great seasons with the club, so I wish him all the best, and I wish Darwin also all the best to score many goals for us.”
Salah had a stellar 2021-22 campaign, finishing level with Tottenham’s Son Heung-min in the race to be the Premier League’s top scorer, while also managing the most assists in the competition, racking up 13 to finish one ahead of team-mate Trent Alexander-Arnold.
It was the third time that Salah has won the Premier League’s Golden Boot, having also been top scorer in the 2017-18 and 2018-19 campaigns.
He won the FWA Footballer of the Year and the PFA Players’ Player of the Year awards, and taking all competitions into account finished the campaign with 31 goals and 15 assists in 51 appearances, creating 87 scoring chances.
Across his five-season Liverpool career to date, Salah has managed 118 Premier League goals, at an average of one every 126 minutes, a league-best for players who have played at least 100 games in that time.
Salah had been linked with the likes of Barcelona and Real Madrid, but Friday’s announcement means the former Roma and Chelsea forward’s stint with Liverpool is far from over, as he prepares for a sixth season with the Reds.
In a message to supporters, Salah said Liverpool would “try to win all the trophies” in the new campaign.
