Mohamed Salah Says 2024-25 Is His ‘Last Year at’ Liverpool amid Expiring Contract

Timothy Rapp@@TRappaRTFeatured Columnist IVSeptember 1, 2024

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The 2024-25 season will apparently be Mohamed Salah’s swan song with Liverpool.

“As you know, it’s my last year at the club,” he told Sky Sports on Sunday following the Reds 3-0 victory over Manchester United (h/t Callum Davis and James Pearce of The Athletic). “I just want to enjoy it—I don’t want to think about it. I feel like I’m free to play football and we will see what can happen next year.”

Salah is entering the final year of his contract and said Sunday that no talks over an extension have taken place.

“Nobody at the club has spoken to me yet about contracts, so I will play my last season and see at the end of the season,” he noted. “I don’t know if I will (come back) but, yes, my last game here [at Old Trafford] with Liverpool. It’s not up to me. Nobody (has) talked to me from the club but we will see.”

New Liverpool manager Arne Slot didn’t directly address the situation when asked about those comments.

“In this moment he’s one of ours and I am really happy with him being one of ours,” he said. “He plays really well. I don’t talk about players’ contracts but I can talk for hours about how Mo played today if you’re interested in that? He was impressive, like he was in the first two days, but if you talk about an individual, you don’t do justice to all the other ones because you saw a real good team performance—playing out from the back, high press, midfield that kept on running.”

Fabrizio Romano @FabrizioRomano🔴🇪🇬 Salah: “Easy game? I was surprised… it was quite open. It could’ve finished 5 or 6 to be honest”. pic.twitter.com/YZ7VCTxTHM

Fabrizio Romano @FabrizioRomano🔴🗣️ “You could have won 5 or 6-0”.

Virgil van Dijk replies: “We should have”.

“We dominated and should have scored more. But yes, winning 3-0 is a big improvement”. pic.twitter.com/MthWJ8Cha8

Salah, 32, had a goal against United—and probably could have had one or two more—to go along with two assists. He now has three goals and three assists in three matches to open the Premier League campaign, a blistering start that has only been bested in league play by Erling Haaland’s absurd seven goals from three matches.

NBC Sports Soccer @NBCSportsSoccerMO SALAH MAKES IT 3-0.

LIVERPOOL ARE RUNNING RIOT IN MANCHESTER. 😳

📺 Peacock | #MUNLIV pic.twitter.com/9dgfgocXmP

If Salah were to depart after the season, it would end a legendary run at Anfield that has included titles in the Premier League (2019-20), Champions League (2018-19), the FA Cup (2021-22), the League Cup (2021-22, 2023-24), the Community Shield (2022-23) and the Super Cup (2019-20).

He has managed 18 or more Premier League goals in every season for Liverpool while notching 10 or more assists in league play five times, emerging as one of the most clinical finishers and feared attackers in European club football.

But Liverpool may be moving onto a new era after former manager Jürgen Klopp stepped down in the offseason, with both Virgil van Dijk and Trent Alexander-Arnold also in the final year of their contracts. The Reds could have quite the new look for the 2025-26 campaign.