Breaking News: Al Ittihad’s last-ditch effort to secure Mohamed Salah’s signature before Thursday

Al Ittihad has not given up hope on landing a contract with Liverpool concerning Mohamed Salah. Instead, the Saudi’s SPL club seems to have gone for a little tete-a-tete.

Liverpool does not seem scared, however, with Jurgen Klopp affirming that the player wants to remain in the Premier League club.

‘I’ve never had, and I don’t have now, doubts about his future, his commitment to this club. Believe me, you can’t imagine how much fuss the whole world makes and how calm we are with it. He’s our player, he wants to play here and that’s it,’ he said.

When asked whether Mohamed Salah has ever told him he wanted to leave, the coach replied, ‘No. He didn’t tell me, but he didn’t have to. He speaks with his training and performances and behaviour.’

Speaking to reporters he said, ‘We had meetings this week and the meetings were not about what we did in the past, it was about what we will do in the future.

‘Mo was with the players’ [leadership] committee and had his moments where he was talking and it was nothing like, ‘By the way, this is only until next week’ or whatever.

‘He is completely here and if Dom said that, fine. Mo doesn’t have to come into my office and tell me ‘by the way, boss… [I’m not going]. For me it wasn’t a subject for one second, to be honest, besides the questions (from the media).’

The player netted once yesterday for his club in a match that ended with Liverpool winning Aston Villa by three goals to none. The first scorer was a new player that had been signed during the summer transfer, Dominik Szoboszlai.

During the post-match interview, what the Hungarian replied on the issue was, ‘You know it is football, everyone is talking. We are really happy that he has stayed.

‘We are of course speaking between each other but he wants to stay, he wants to be here and be with us. We are really happy – we need people in the team like him.’

Jurgen Klopp does not think it is a big issue: ‘I didn’t realize a little bit of a distraction in the whole week, besides answering questions about it – not from people inside [the club] but people outside.

‘I have no clue, nobody came to me and told me something could happen or whatever. I’m pretty sure I would have got a call but I didn’t.’

Kaveh Solhekol, chief reporter at Sky Sports has also revealed what he thinks of the situation:

‘Liverpool’s position is that the player is not for sale and has two years left on his contract. Al Ittihad’s position is they made a verbal offer for the player last Thursday of up to £150m, which was rejected.

‘They had a big game on Friday night which they lost. After that game and during the weekend, they have held talks over what they should do next.

‘Our information is that they want to make another offer for Mo Salah before the Saudi window closes on Thursday.

‘Senior figures at Al Ittihad are saying they believe it’s worth having one more go to try and get him.

‘But there are also very influential voices at the club who are advising them to draw a line under it for now, let’s respect Liverpool as they’ve made it clear he’s not for sale, and then try again next summer.

‘One other significant point to make is that Al Ittihad cannot act unilaterally. They can’t just decide to make an offer, pick up the phone and ring up Liverpool.

‘What they would need to do is go through the Saudi Pro League because every offer has to be approved by the league and through their interim chief executive Saad Al Lazeez and director of football Michael Emenalo.’

Salah has said nothing as the episodes keep unfolding. Thursday will reveal his mind.

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