Liverpool launched £19.5m plan to re-sign Mohamed Salah with two more steps to come

 

Superstar forward Mohamed Salah has signed a new three-year contract at Anfield that makes him the highest-paid player history in Liverpool's history by some distance.

On Friday, Liverpool announced that Mohamed Salah had finally signed a new contract, ending the unnerving speculation around his future.

The Reds retain the services of one of the best players in the world and, crucially, keep him out of the hands of their rivals, both domestic and continental.

Inevitably, though, this has come at a significant cost. Salah’s previous contract was worth around £200,000 per week, a relatively modest figure for a player of his calibre, albeit one considerably inflated by bonuses.

But this new deal puts Salah among the highest earners in the Premier League. He’ll now be taking home approximately £350,000 per week, an increase of a whopping 75 per cent.

Sadio Mané’s move to Bayern Munich has been identified as a key moment in breaking the deadlock that existed between the club and Salah’s camp.

Mané, after all, was on £200,000 per week himself, according to German publication Sport1. And significantly, his replacement Darwin Núñez will ‘only’ receive £140,000 per week under his first contract. It will work out as a saving of more than £3m per year.

But, alone, that won’t cover Salah’s salary hike — £7.8m per annum. Perhaps Mané’s exit was simply the most important part of a multi-step process.