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Liverpool forward Mohamed Salah has penned a new three-year contract that will keep him at the club until 2025.
Sporting director Julian Ward jetted out to meet Salah, who is on holiday, to finalise the paperwork and FSG president Mike Gordon was instructive in negotiations with the forward’s agent Ramy Abbas Issa.
The forward’s previous contract was due to expire in 2023. He enjoyed a phenomenal season in 2021/22, grabbing 31 goals and 16 assists in 51 appearances.
Salah won the PFA Player’s Player of the Year award last term and he also shared the Golden Boot with Tottenham’s Son Heung-Min.
Liverpool have announced that he has now signed a new ‘long-term contract’ reported three-year deal to stay with the Reds.
He will earn ‘in excess of £350,000 a week’ and this ‘makes him the highest paid player in Liverpool’s history’.
Salah’s extension has been announced a couple of weeks after Sadio Mane left Liverpool to join Bayern Munich. The Reds have signed Darwin Nunez, Calvin Ramsay and Fabio Carvalho this summer.
Speaking on his contract extension, Salah insisted that it is a “happy day for everyone”:
“I feel great and I am excited to win trophies with the club. It’s a happy day for everyone,” Salah told the club’s official website.
“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.”
Salah added: “My message to the fans is the players in the team want to give our best next season to try to win all the trophies.
“As usual, you stay behind us and give us a big push and I am sure we are going to win trophies again together.”
The deal still fits into the club’s sustainable wage structure and is incentivised with scoring bonuses.
