Mo Salah hints at Liverpool exit amid stalled contract talks

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The transfer market at the top of the European club game has taken on a curious form in recent years as options constrict for the very best (and those paid like them). Still, this Mohamed Salah impasse is like nothing we’ve ever known before. The probable the best player in the world, the probable Ballon d’Or winner, a player in the midst of a prime Lionel Messi level season seems to be pitching his club on the benefits of extending his contract.

Ever since the Bosman ruling in 1995, it has been a given that top footballers hold all the power when their contract is running down, all the more so in the final six months when, in Salah’s case, he can sign a pre-contract agreement with any club outside England. In 18 Premier League games this season, the 32 year old has a league-leading 17 goals and a league-leading 13 assists. Liverpool’s owners should be loading up a flotilla of Brink’s trucks just to start the conversation.

And yet for what is at least the third time this season, Salah finds himself publicly indicating that he would like to stay at Liverpool but the right offer is not on the table. Speaking to Sky Sports, he said that he had placed the Premier League title at the top of his list of targets for what he called “my last year in the club”.

Asked to address that comment further, he added: “So far yes. The last six months there is no progress there. We are far away from any progress. We just need to wait and see.”