Liverpool manager Jurgen Klopp has insisted that Mohamed Salah is going nowhere, but Al-Ittihad are still planning to lodge a new and improved bid for his services this week
Liverpool are braced for a world-record £215million offer from Al-Ittihad for Mohamed Salah ahead of the Saudi transfer deadline on Thursday.
Salah, 31, has been heavily linked with a move to the Middle East in recent weeks and Al-Ittihad saw a huge £150m bid turned down by the Reds in the final hours of the English transfer window last week.
Jurgen Klopp has insisted that his talisman is not for sale at any price and that there is no chance the Egyptian superstar will be leaving Anfield this summer, but that hasn’t prevented Al-Ittihad from preparing a new and improved bid.
“He wouldn’t be worth £150m without the Saudi market, probably closer to £100m. But why have they left it so late? If they wanted him so badly, and they were prepared to spend the money, why didn’t they do it six months ago when they might have got him?
“It is up to Liverpool and it is up to Salah, he may not want to go. I think even for supporters who love him and don’t want him to move, if that number keeps going up and up, there is a stage where they can’t turn it down, and that would be £200m.”