Arne Slot will 'know within 90 seconds' if Liverpool are keeping Mohamed Salah – Football News

Arne Slot will 'know within 90 seconds' if Liverpool are keeping Mohamed Salah

Arne Slot has been urged to hold showdown talks with Mohamed Salah (Image: GETTY)

Ally McCoist has urged Liverpool boss Arne Slot to set up a meeting with Mohamed Salah to determine his Anfield future ahead of the new season. The Egyptian winger’s contract is due to expire next summer, at which point he will leave on a free transfer unless he signs a new deal.

Salah will also be free to negotiate a pre-contract agreement with a foreign club from January if he is not tied down to a new contract before then. The situation leaves the Reds with a dilemma over whether to sell him this summer or risk losing him for nothing at the end of the season.

Speaking to talkSPORT BET, McCoist urged Slot to open talks with Salah and suggested that he will know ‘within 90 seconds’ if the 32-year-old is thinking about a potential exit.

The Reds winger has entered the final year of his contract at Anfield

The Reds winger has entered the final year of his contract at Anfield (Image: GETTY)

“If I was Arne Slot, I would sit Mohamed Salah down and figure out what’s going on in his head and whether he is happy at Liverpool,” said McCoist.

“You need to get a response from him and find out exactly where he is mentally, because if he’s not happy, you have to cash in. It’s simple. If he is not 100 per cent committed to moving forward with the club and the new manager, then you’ve got to cash in now.

“From Liverpool’s point of view, you would hope he would say he loves where he is and can see himself at Anfield for the next two or three years. His form may have been a little bit indifferent last season but he still scored plenty of goals.

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“He’s been one of the greatest players in the Premier League. The key players for Liverpool are Alisson, Virgil van Dijk and Salah. It goes without saying how pivotal and important they have been and, ideally, you don’t want to be losing any of them.

“They’ll know within 90 seconds of the conversation with Salah whether they should cash in on him or not.”

It remains to be seen if Salah will extend his stay at Liverpool or if he will decide to seek a new challenge in the near future. He has already been linked with a big-money move to Saudi Arabia, with Al-Ittihad thought to be keen on bringing him to the Gulf state.

However, there is no sign that a summer sale is on the cards with Salah poised to see out the remainder of his contract as things stand.

Source: https://www.express.co.uk/sport/football/1930930/Arne-Slot-Liverpool-Mohamed-Salah-transfer-news