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title: "Liverpool: Mohamed Salah contract claim refuted"
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language: "en-GB"
author: "David Comerford"
section: "Liverpool Football Club"
published: "2021-09-07T06:05:01Z"
modified: "2021-09-07T06:05:01Z"
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# Liverpool: Mohamed Salah contract claim refuted

**Mohamed Salah is not demanding £500,000 per week to extend his Liverpool’s contract, according to the [Liverpool Echo](https://www.liverpoolecho.co.uk/sport/football/football-news/mohamed-salah-500k-wages-news-21489523).**

### The lowdown

[The Mirror](https://www.mirror.co.uk/sport/football/news/mo-salah-liverpool-transfer-news-24909896) floated the figure, which is more than double his current salary of £200,000, over the weekend. Salah is into the final two years of his contract at Anfield, and while [talks are ongoing](https://www.mirror.co.uk/sport/football/news/mo-salah-liverpool-transfer-news-24909896), the two parties have yet to make a breakthrough.

Alisson Becker, Virgil van Dijk, Trent Alexander-Arnold, Andrew Robertson, Fabinho and Jordan Henderson have all penned new deals in recent months (via [The Athletic](https://theathletic.com/2798417/2021/08/31/liverpools-transfer-window-klopps-bullish-even-if-fans-are-worried-about-lack-of-spending/)), but there’s [said to be interest](https://www.mirror.co.uk/sport/football/news/mo-salah-liverpool-transfer-news-24909896) in Salah from European giants such as Paris Saint-Germain and Real Madrid.

The Egyptian international joined Liverpool from AS Roma in 2017 and has since gone on to [score 127 goals in 206 appearances](https://www.transfermarkt.co.uk/mohamed-salah/leistungsdatendetails/spieler/148455/verein/31) for the Reds.

### The latest

The [Liverpool Echo](https://www.liverpoolecho.co.uk/sport/football/football-news/mohamed-salah-500k-wages-news-21489523) reported that Salah’s demands are ‘not in the region’ of the £26m per year which was ‘suggested over the weekend’.

The Anfield club are ‘continuing to press ahead’ in negotiations in the hope of addressing a ‘priority’ and putting any speculation over the Egyptian’s future to bed.

### The verdict

Had Salah genuinely been demanding £500,000 per week, then there was a very real risk that talks would break down altogether. That kind of sum could shatter a club’s wage structure.

Still, you’d imagine he is in line for a substantial salary hike, with the Reds under pressure to tie down arguably their biggest asset for the remainder of his peak years.

[Kylian Mbappe’s potential move to Real Madrid](https://www.skysports.com/football/news/11835/12392532/kylian-mbappe-real-madrid-could-look-to-sign-psg-forward-in-january-despite-positive-talks) may have strengthened Salah’s hand further, as there’s a very real chance that PSG could start sniffing around as the 29-year-old edges closer to the end of his current deal.

**In other news, [another Liverpool player could join Firmino on the treatment table](https://www.footballtransfertavern.com/leeds-united-news/leeds-takumi-minamino-could-miss-whites-clash-with-liverpool/).**