Mo Salah 2025/26 Season
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Can MLS clubs afford such a fee? Would be almost double the current record.
I'd be disappointed with anything less than £75m if I'm honest. Especially from Saudi.
MLS?
There's also the possibility that he has been told - I mean it's not a secret it's all over the TV and written media and everyone was calling for him to be dropped - but his ego is just not willing to accept it. He's watching his performances back with his Mo Salah tinted glasses on (borrowed from a couple on here).
I think if he goes to a Mickey Mouse league he goes to Saudi as there'll be more money in it for him.
I know MLS will be able to pay him a fair wedge, but the Saudis will top anything he gets offered from MLS. And if they weigh in Ramy with a huge fee then it'll happen.
Were you around at the club when we were deaing with Suarez? We recovered from that on multiple occassions so I assume we have protocols in place.
They might for a player like Salah. 25 mill for Son, so I'd expect 35-40 for Salah.
Saudis would be our best bet to get a decent fee though.
Yes, I was there. The precise details were fairly well-guarded so I don't have a great deal of extra insight to offer. What I will say is that Suarez was a very different (calmer) character off the pitch than on it. There wasn't a huge ego there and people generally liked him. All of the incidents on the pitch were generally dismissed as a product of his strong will to win (i.e. at all costs).
Obviously with Suarez there were multiple incidents.
1. Alleged racism to Patrice Evra. The club stood by his version of events so he was happy. We had to manage the fall-out with the wider footballing community, not the player. There would always be a tension with Man U anyway so after a while it didn't change a great deal and most (neutral) fans didn't know which version of events to believe anyway.
2. £40m + £1. His agent (Guardiola's brother) messed that up. I remember seeing the clause before the whole thing kicked off and my reading was that it only required us to notify him of any bids, not to accept them (which was what Gordon Taylor later confirmed when it all kicked off). We gave him a new contract with more money and a proper release clause so he was happy.
3. Biting Ivanovic - he accepted he was in the wrong, was heavily fined, didn't complain. This is what I mean when I talk about him being different off the field - in the moment he did something feral, but when he looked back on it he was genuinely remorseful.
4. Biting Chiellini - he got his move after that so didn't care, and we didn't have to negotiate a tricky path out of that one.
I think this incident is different, because I don't see Mo admitting that he was in the wrong, nor the club shifting the blame elsewhere. Plus with Suarez there was a motive for the club to get him back in the fold because he was getting better and better on the field, where Mo is in decline.
Apart from the footballing and financial side there were a few serious allegations that Salah made - "broken promises", "singled out for blame", "fractured relationships", "it seems to me, how I see it, that someone doesn't want me in the club", "thrown me under the bus" (a phrase that would come naturally to an Egyptian🙄) etc
These matters need to be investigated by senior executives and acted upon accordingly if upheld.
These matters need to be investigated by senior executives and acted upon accordingly if upheld.
Qatar own PSG.
What's wrong with these footballers?
All he had to do was chill for a few months and leave happily.
He's 33/34 years old, what does he expect? He's not the same player physically that he thinks he is.
Yes he scored a lot of goals last season but that was partly because the team was set-up for him. But with each passing year that gets harder and harder especially when the rest of the team is having issues if it's own.
The problem with keeping Salah is similar to late stage Messi at Barcelona in that you compromise other areas of your play to accommodate and older legend. It hasn't worked this season because the rest of the setup isn't functioning.
Anyways regardless of who is at fault it's a shit way to deal with things and now at keast we know why he wasn't considered for captaincy.
All he had to do was chill for a few months and leave happily.
He's 33/34 years old, what does he expect? He's not the same player physically that he thinks he is.
Yes he scored a lot of goals last season but that was partly because the team was set-up for him. But with each passing year that gets harder and harder especially when the rest of the team is having issues if it's own.
The problem with keeping Salah is similar to late stage Messi at Barcelona in that you compromise other areas of your play to accommodate and older legend. It hasn't worked this season because the rest of the setup isn't functioning.
Anyways regardless of who is at fault it's a shit way to deal with things and now at keast we know why he wasn't considered for captaincy.
