Mohamed Salah and Virgil Van Dijk are without contract in Liverpool after the end of the season, but the negotiations are underway and there is optimism that the two will soon sign a new agreement.
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Liverpool makes progress in discussions on a new contract for Mohamed Salah and the leaders of the Premier League are increasingly confident that he will stay in Anfield next season, according to information on Wednesday.
International 32-year-old Egypt is without a contract at the end of this season with the teammates of Liverpool Virgil Van Dijk and Trent Alexander-Arnold.
Alexander-Arnold should leave Liverpool
While Alexander-Arnold was strongly linked to a free transfer to Real Madrid, Van Dijk said that after the defeat of 3-2 in Fulham on Sunday, negotiations were progressing on a new agreement much discussed for the club’s captain.
It is understood that no agreement has yet been concluded, but there is optimism Salah and Van Dijk will extend their contracts.
Salah is the top scorer in the Premier League this season with 27 goals and scored 243 times in 394 appearances for the Reds since he joined the Roma club in 2017.
He won the Champions League with Liverpool and helped the club end an English 30 -year -old title at La Déléresse in 2020, raising eight trophies in total during his stay on the Merseyside.
The double African footballer of the year was linked to a lucrative decision in Saudi Arabia, but has always indicated that his favorite option was to stay in Liverpool.
In November, Salah declared that he was “probably more absent than” in Liverpool before suggesting that an agreement was “far” a month later.