Egyptian international Mohamed Salah is in the final year of his contract with Liverpool. Underwater negotiations between the club and his agent are ongoing, but no agreement has been reached at this stage and no contract extension offer has been presented.
Egyptian King has made high-profile statements to the media in the past, including that he wants to stay at Liverpool.
And after the recent game against Southampton, he revealed that he still has not received an offer and made comments to the effect that he is closer to leaving than staying.
In response to the meaningful comments, manager Arne Slot prefaced his comments by saying that he would not share his contractual situation, but stated that he has faith in the Egyptian right winger’s performance.
“People tell me about this but I have said many times that we don’t share things about this, or at least I do not share about this,”
“The only thing I can say is that if I look at my line-ups, Mo is more in than out. So that quote I can give you.”
“Definitely we want his numbers to be where they are at the moment because those are the numbers that Mo always had and still has. That is the positive thing.”
“I don’t think it distracts Mo at all, maybe it even brings the best out of him if you look at his performances until now. I talk to Mo about what I expect from him, like I do with all the other players, and he is in a good place at the moment.”
“I’m not distracted by his comments and I don’t feel his team-mates are. It’s nice we have a story in the media, you guys have some work now as well.”
“I don’t think that he is distracted at all. I haven’t seen that after the (Manchester) United game (in September) when he had some comments, I haven’t seen it after a (social media) post you told me about (after Brighton earlier this month) – he carried on scoring.”