Mohamed Salah might not have been at his absolute best since the November international break, but that hasn’t stopped the goals flowing for Liverpool this season.
Salah has 15 for the season, along with seven assists, from 24 appearances and now has 201 goals for the Reds
Out of contract in 2025, speculation about the forward’s future will inevitably heat up in 2024.
With Al-Ittihad failing with an £150m offer for the 31-year-old last summer, Saudi interest is expected to rear its head once more.
If the Reds wish to retain the forward’s services, discussions over a new contract will need to take place in 2024
Salah is now 145 goals behind Ian Rush in Liverpool’s all-time goalscoring charts
Rush believes Salah has no reason to seek an Anfield exit anytime soon, recalling his own reasoning for leaving the club to join Leeds United in 1996,
Rush
“I’d love him to sign a new contract, it’d be great,”
“He’s got another year after this. He’s a perfect professional and the younger players can learn from him.
“I’d love him to extend his contract. We don’t know what will happen but I’m sure every Liverpool supporter would love that as well.
“I left because I wasn’t playing regularly. I just wanted to play football. I didn’t want to sit on the bench and that’s what you’ve got to look at.
"I left here to go to Leeds United because I wanted to be playing week in, week out.
“I looked at (Robbie) Fowler and (Stan) Collymore, they were doing really well together, and I didn’t want to be sitting on the bench.
"I was enjoying my football and that’s the reason why I went to Leeds.
“But that was my situation, it depends if you are happy sitting on the bench or not. But Mo’s not even got to that stage yet so no, there’s not really any reason for him to go yet.
“He’s incredible. He’s a very professional man and he wants to play every game. To score 200 goals is incredible, 150 in the Premier League.
Rush added
“If you go from the start of the Premier League, I put Steven Gerrard up there and Mo Salah is up there with him and goes down as Liverpool’s best players.”
Salah isn’t the only Liverpool forward that Rush admires greatly, with the striker a big fan of Darwin Nunez
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