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Liverpool icon Jamie Carragher insisted that it would cost any team £150million to prise Mohamed Salah away from Anfield amid rumours that he could quit the Reds for Saudi Arabia. Reports from the Middle East claimed that the Egyptian was playing his last game for the club in their 2-1 win over Newcastle on Sunday, ahead of Friday’s transfer deadline.
However, both Carragher and Jurgen Klopp poured cold water on the idea as the Sky Sports pundit suggested only a mammoth bid would tempt Liverpool to part ways with their star man. “You’d have to offer £150m,” Carragher said after the match. “You can’t replace Mo Salah with £100m.”
Saudi giants Al-Ittihad were rumoured to have agreed a deal with Salah as a medical was planned for his arrival according to reports from the Middle East. A move to Saudi would see him link up with several former Reds stars in the nation including Sadio Mane, Roberto Firmino, Fabinho and Jordan Henderson.
But Carragher has quashed suggestions that the 31-year-old would walk away from Anfield so close to the end of the window, but if a “crazy” offer was submitted earlier in the summer then the ownership group would have taken it more seriously.
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“I don’t think Mo Salah will go,” he added. “One because it is so late in the window. I don’t necessarily think that Mo Salah would want to go, and what I mean by it is I think Salah will be a little bit like [Cristiano] Ronaldo. I can see Salah paying until he is in his late thirties.
“I think he might think ‘If I had three or four years’, but with two years left on his contract I don’t know if he will stay after that with Liverpool, but I think he will want to score as many goals as he can, win the biggest honours, break records, and I think there is time for him to go to MLS, Saudi Arabia, maybe somewhere else in the future in his late thirties.
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“The way he looks after himself so well, he is such a professional I think he’s still got a few more years in Mo Salah right now. But if you actually think of the model of FSG and the reason why Liverpool have had so much success, when someone makes a crazy offer for one of the players like a [Philippe] Coutinho five or six years ago, Barcelona paid £130m, Liverpool didn’t try to replace Coutinho.
“They bought Virgil van Dijk and Alisson Becker, and Liverpool went on to win the lot – so in some ways it is the model of the ownership in terms of ‘You have bought someone you have had many great years from’, he is over 30 now and if someone made a ridiculous offer early in the window…
“I think it would have to be over £150m. I am not saying he is worth that right now in this day and age, but I don’t think £100m will get you to replace Mo Salah. It’s so late in the window. If it was earlier, maybe, but I don’t think Salah is going anywhere.”
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