Liverpool's CRAZY Mo Salah decision backed by new project | OneFootball

Mo Salah's contract

The project by CIES looks into merit-based salary. In other words, it takes performances by players as well as how often they play and then weighs them against one another.

Forwards are deemed more valuable than other positions, adding extra weight to their salaries. The result is a list of what players ‘should’ be paid given their status in world football.

Kylian Mbappe tops the pile with a projected salary of €22.8m. He actually earns quite a bit more than that, however.

Second? Mo Salah. CIES feel he’s worth around €350k per week as a player, which is a little shy of what Liverpool pay him. Salah places just above Jude Bellingham, with Joao Neves and, notably, Dominik Szoboszlai following them.

But given Liverpool’s enormous risk earlier this year with Salah’s contract, this project suggests they were pretty much spot on with their eventual decision. Whether they do truly get the right value from his deal by the end of it is another matter - but the decision to give the Egyptian that salary did make sense.

Hopefully, it looks good in hindsight, too, but only time will tell.