Saudi Arabia's Public Investment Fund spells out conditions for Mo Salah deal | OneFootball

Salah's Liverpool days at an end

This is a distraction that Slot and Liverpool sporting director Richard Hughes hardly needed.

The team is underperforming - sitting 10th in the league standings - and £450m worth of new signings haven’t been properly integrated.

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A very public spat with the club’s most famous player crowns a miserable campaign thus far - and could lead to the Egyptian King’s exit sooner rather than later.

The two-time African footballer of the year jets off with his national team to Afcon next week and there is a very real prospect that he resumes his club career elsewhere in January.

Top Saudi clubs queue up for Salah

Saudi Arabia’s Public Investment Fund is ready to conduct a deal for Salah in the winter window - with PIF owning 75 percent of the SPL’s biggest clubs.

Al-Nassr, Al-Hilal, Al-Ahli and Al-Ittihad are all under control of PIF - but we must also be attentive to Al-Qadsiah - owned by Saudi Arabia’s oil and gas giant Aramco.

According to a PIF source speaking to Al Jazeera, the Public Investment Fund intends to conduct a loan deal in January for Salah or else buy the winger out of his Liverpol contract.

Salah is under contract until 2027 - earning £400k per week - meaning the Reds still have £30m to pay. The same source adds no talks have yet taken place with Salah but they are intending to do so when the time is right.

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Would Liverpool get rid of Salah on a free?

It’s hard to see Liverpool accepting a loan deal or else one which sees them failing to earn a transfer fee. Surely part of the thinking behind Salah’s renewal was eliminating the possibility of him leaving for free.

If - at any time before 2027 - it looks like a parting of the ways seems inevitable then it makes sense for Hughes to ask for a transfer fee.

Given Salah’s profile and status in the game it would surely be a decent fee - although the addition of the player’s wages makes this an extremely expensive operation.

We know the SPL clubs can do massive deals - as they have done in the case of Cristiano Ronaldo and Karim Benzema - and there is no doubting their willingness to get Salah signed up.

With 18 months on the contract however any deal will be done on Liverpool’s terms - ensuring a return on a player signed for around £37m from Roma back in 2017.