All the talk right now where Liverpool are concerned is about who will replace Jurgen Klopp as manager this summer. The German has announced he’s calling time on his reign at Anfield, which means the club will have to find a suitable replacement, preferably sooner rather than later. But could another iconic face join Klopp and head for the exit?
There is no doubt that Klopp leaving Liverpool will have a seismic effect on the Merseyside-based club moving forward. He guided the Reds to their first Premier League crown, and they won the Champions League on his watch, too. Any popular sports betting site will give Liverpool less of a chance of success without Klopp at the helm, which is natural, but what if Mohamed Salah was to join him in leaving the club in the coming months?
Salah, who will be thirty-two at the start of the next Premier League campaign, is one of several leading Liverpool players whose future is very much up in the air. The club is entering a new era, and while the Egyptian attacker has been one of the Reds’ best players for a long while, one who will go down in history, his age and contract situation could see the powers that be, and Salah himself, decide it’s a good time to part ways as the transitional period from Klopp to the next manager gets underway.
It won’t be an ideal scenario to see Salah head for the exit this summer, especially when you consider he’s been amongst the goals once again this term, but there have been long-running sagas where his contract is concerned in the past, and he’s only tied to the club until the summer of 2025 when he’d leave as a thirty-three-year-old free agent with Liverpool gaining nothing financially from that. Of course, keeping him at Anfield next season, regardless, will guarantee the new manager a source of goals, but the right winger isn’t a player that can be relied on long-term, and it wouldn’t make business sense.
The new manager, whoever it ends up being, with Arne Slot of Feyenoord the latest name to be linked with the post, will want as much quality to remain in the squad as possible, but he’ll also want to put his own stamp on the team and begin to shape the group to suit his playing style. Salah has weighed in with twenty-four goals in all competitions this season, but there has been a decrease in goal output in the last several years, which could also influence thinking.
A Salah exit would undoubtedly be a significant blow and not well received, especially by Liverpool fans who see him as one of the club’s all-time greats. But, at the same time, the club is beefing up behind the scenes and could find an adequate replacement in the short term before they search out Salah’s long-term successor. And, if Saudi Pro League clubs come with a big money offer for the Liverpool talisman, not only could it be too tempting to turn down, but it could enable the club to bring in that successor sooner rather than later.
