Gary Lineker has revealed he had a chat with Mohamed Salah about his future amid rumours he’ll leave Liverpool for the Saudi Pro League.
Salah is arguably one of the best player on the planet immediately, along with his performances firing Liverpool to the highest of the Premier League and Champions League.
The Egyptian King has 25 goals and 17 assists in only 33 games to date this season, most recently bagging a brace within the 2-0 win at AFC Bournemouth on Saturday.
That result has kept Liverpool six points clear of Arsenal within the title race but not all is rosey at Anfield, with three of their best players out of contract in the summertime.
Salah, Virgil van Dijk and Trent Alexander-Arnold are yet to sign latest deals, with the England right-back tipped to hitch Real Madrid on a free.
Van Dijk has recently suggested he could leave too, while Salah has repeatedly stated that he and the club are ‘distant from any progress’ on a contract extension, though he does seem open to staying on Merseyside.
It is not any secret that a club within the lucrative Saudi Pro League desires to sign him, with Saudi Arabia’s sports minister recently saying it might be a ‘pleasure and a privilege’ to have the winger play within the country,
Discussing Salah’s form on The Rest is Football podcast, England legend Lineker revealed he had recently met Salah and the pair had an interesting conversation.
‘He’s a beautiful guy. I spent 10 minutes with him once I went to go to Arne Slot [for a BBC interview],’ Lineker told Alan Shearer.
‘Did you not get it out of him whether he’s staying or going or not?’ the Newcastle legend asked.
Lineker replied: ‘He asked me, “how old were you whenever you finished?”. And I said, “well, English football I finished once I was 32 after which I went to play in Japan for a few years”.
‘And he went, “ah, you went for the cash did you?”. And I said, “well yeah I suppose so”.
‘And he went, ‘…yeah, I would do the identical’. He [then] winked on the press guy that was there!
‘It was only a joke but he has got that cheeky sense of humour has Mo.’
While Salah can have just been joking, he does turn 33 in the summertime and will well be tempted to just accept a big pay day in Saudi if he delivers one other Premier League title to Anfield as expected.
He also can help Liverpool win one other Carabao Cup this season but they have to first overcome a one goal deficit to Tottenham within the second leg of their semi-final tie on Thursday.
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