It Will Cost Liverpool A Lot More To Replace Salah – Stan Collymore

Liverpool could be making an absolutely ridiculous mistake by allowing Mohamed Salah’s contract to run down, Stan Collymore has said. He recently had his say while speaking to the press, and fans have been reacting.

According to him, it would be a terrible decision by the Reds to let Salah go at the end of the season, because it will cost the club a lot more to replace him.

Stan added that giving the Egyptian forward whatever he is asking for should be a no-brainer for Liverpool.

His words, “I still think there is a lot of cat and mouse.

My own personal view is that Liverpool would be absolutely ridiculous to let him go. The notion that there are players of that calibre out there that you can go and spend 50-60 million on and get into the team and do what they did with Salah, who I think cost about 30-35m when they brought him in, is ridiculous. It will cost a hell of a lot more.

You look at [Erling] Haaland signing a new contract, half-a-million-pound-plus, [Kylian] Mbappe is going nowhere at Real Madrid. You look beyond that, the two great strikers of this generation, and there aren’t lots out there.

I’m sure Liverpool’s recruitment department will be saying ‘we’ve got irons in the fire and we believe we can bring players in, one or two, that will score the required amount of goals’. But I think it’s a no-brainer. Liverpool already have him so they don’t have to play a fee. He knows them, they know him. It would just be a case of wages for three years and bonuses.

I just think where Liverpool are, if they were to win the Premier League and win the Champions League, which is still very much possible – maybe even probable – then it’s not a case of not making the money to cover wages. They are a huge football club that makes huge amounts of revenue. For me, there is still a deal to be done.

But if he were to go, I can’t see him going to a potential European rival – which would discount anybody in Germany, France, Italy, Spain. I think it would be Saudi, I think he’d go there. Then they have shaken hands with him, he goes off into the sunset as a legend and they don’t have to worry about him competing against them.”

WOW.

Liverpool Football Club is a professional football club based in Liverpool, England. The club competes in the Premier League, the top tier of English football. Founded in 1892, the club joined the Football League the following year and has played its home games at Anfield since its formation.

Domestically, the club has won 19 league titles, eight FA Cups, a record nine League Cups and 16 FA Community Shields. In international competitions, the club has won six European Cups, three UEFA Cups, four UEFA Super Cups—all English records—and one FIFA Club World Cup.

The club established itself as a major force in domestic and European football in the 1970s and 1980s, when Bill Shankly, Bob Paisley, Joe Fagan and Kenny Dalglish, led the club to a combined 11 League titles and four European Cups. Liverpool won two further European Cups in 2005 and 2019 under the management of Rafael Benítez and Jürgen Klopp, respectively; the latter led Liverpool to a 19th league title in 2020, the club’s first during the Premier League era.

Anfield was built in 1884 on land adjacent to Stanley Park. Situated 2 miles (3 km) from Liverpool city centre, it was originally used by Everton before the club moved to Goodison Park after a dispute over rent with Anfield owner John Houlding. Left with an empty ground, Houlding founded Liverpool in 1892 and the club has played at Anfield ever since. The capacity of the stadium at the time was 20,000, although only 100 spectators attended Liverpool’s first match at Anfield.