Liverpool ahead Mohamed Salah on Friday signed a long-term contract extension, placing an finish to a prolonged saga about his future on the Premier League membership.
The Egypt worldwide has signed an extension till 2025, with the deal coming after strike companion and Senegal ahead Sadio Mane left to hitch German Bundesliga giants Bayern Munich on a three-year deal final month.
“I feel great and (I am) excited to win trophies with the club. It’s a happy day for everyone,” Salah mentioned in a press release on the membership web site.
“It takes just a little little bit of time, I feel, to resume, however now every part is completed so we simply have to deal with what’s subsequent.
“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.”
Salah scored 23 league targets for Liverpool final season to share the Premier League golden boot with Tottenham Hotspur’s Son Heung-min.
He was named the Professional Footballers’ Association Player of the Year and in addition took the highest honour from the Football Writers’ Association.
The 30-year-old scored 31 targets in all competitions for Liverpool and helped them seize the League Cup and FA Cup. They had been overwhelmed 1-0 by Real Madrid within the Champions League last in May.
Salah, who joined the Merseyside outfit from Italian facet AS Roma in 2017 and has scored 156 targets in 254 appearances, would have been accessible to depart them on a free switch on the finish of subsequent season.
He is now anticipated to guide a new-look entrance line for Juergen Klopp’s facet within the absence of Mane and Divock Origi — who left the membership — with Uruguayan ahead Darwin Nunez having joined within the shut season.
“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,” Salah added. “As usual, you stay behind us and give us a big push and I’m sure we are going to win trophies again (together).”
Source: www.financialexpress.com