Liverpool legend Jamie Carragher is backing Mo Salah to sign a new contract at Anfield.
Talks continue to rumble on between Salah and Liverpool, with no new deal agreed just yet.
The Egyptian superstar is out of contract in 2023, and if he does not pen a new deal this summer, Liverpool are likely to sell to avoid losing him for nothing next year.
That is not their desired outcome, however, with Salah a treasured commodity at Anfield.
The forward has been a revelation since arriving 2017, scoring 118 goals in 180 Premier League appearances.
And he has firmly established himself as one of the best players in world football during that time.
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It’s no surprise Liverpool want to keep him around, and former defender Carragher has explained why it is in Salah’s best interests to stay at Liverpool and to pen a new contract.
“I’m convinced Sadio Mane will sign, I really believe Mo Salah should sign – I think it’ll be a really big mistake if he doesn’t,” the former defender told Liverpool Echo’s Blood Red Podcast.
“I’m saying that standing back looking at it all thinking ‘this club has been brilliant for you, you have been brilliant for us, you suit the Premier League, suit Jurgen Klopp’s style of play’ the longer this goes on you’re sort of losing the PR battle.
“The longer it goes being on becoming a free transfer, that screw is getting turned with the supporters. It’ll go from what it was six months ago ‘the club have got to give him what he wants’ – that’ll soon slowly start to change.
“Mo’s not been in his best form which doesn’t help and [Luis] Diaz has come in, Mane has taken the shine, those little things.
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