Premier League top scorer Mohamed Salah says he will only leave the club alongside Trent Alexander-Arnold and Virgil van Dijk once they win the top flight again.
The Reds are six points clear of Arsenal with a game in hand at the top of the table in their first season under Arne Slot, but attention is increasingly turning to whether Iconic striker Salah, captain Van Dijk and wide player Alexander-Arnold will renew. their offers once they expire at the end of the campaign.
“My motivation this year was to win a trophy and play a big part in winning it, especially in the Premier League,” Salah said. Aerial sportsabout the team built by Slot’s predecessor Jurgen Klopp, whose trophies include the 2018/19 Champions League and 2019/20 Premier League.
“There’s still half left [that] The team left like me, Trent, Virgil, Alisson, Robbo [Andy Robertson]. We need to win another trophy before we all leave.
🚨 𝗕𝗥𝗘𝗔𝗞𝗜𝗡𝗚: Mo Salah confirmed this was his last season at Liverpool:
🗣️ “I really want to win the Premier League this season because it’s my last year at the club. I want to give something special to the City.
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Salah contract: “No progress”
Salah has been Liverpool’s top scorer every season since arriving from Roma in 2017 and has been in sensational form in 2024/25, scoring 20 times and setting up 17 goals in 26 matches in all competitions.
The 32-year-old said the circumstances of Liverpool’s last title win, which took place during the Covid pandemic, meant his team “didn’t really have time to celebrate it in the right way”.
“There is no progress in this area,” he said of the prospect of extending his contract. “We are far from any progress. We just have to wait and see.
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“What I think is if this is the last six months, what do you want to see in the future? Do you want to look back and say “I was worried or stressed about the contract”?
“Or do you just want to say, ‘I had an incredible season’? This is what I have in mind. If I ever feel distracted, I just remind myself that I want to look back and say I had an amazing season.
Journalist Patrick Davison, who spoke to Salah, said he believed the Egypt captain “wants to extend his stay at Liverpool”.
“During the interview he once again said it was his ‘last year’ with the club,” Davison added. “But I think he doesn’t want that to be the case.”
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Premier League title: Salah ‘wants big numbers’
“I am really motivated to win the Premier League,” Salah reiterated. “I don’t just want to have a small role. I want to win it and have people say ‘he made the difference and made the team win’.
“Arsenal are catching up with us. [Fourth-placed] Chelsea are catching up with us. [Sixth-placed reigning champions] Man City will come back, that’s for sure.
“It’s very tricky but we just have to stay focused, not take it for granted and keep working hard. I don’t want to get to the end of the season and say, ‘I had amazing numbers but the team didn’t win anything.’ I just want to win the trophy and have the big numbers.
Salah on Slot: Klopp ‘had one system’
Klopp won every major trophy available for almost nine years at Liverpool previously taking a break from management at the end of last season.
Former manager of Feyenoord oversaw 23 wins and one defeat in his first 27 matches, including victories in Liverpool’s first six Champions League matches and three Carabao Cup matches.
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“The new manager came in with a new idea that helps the team… maybe things have changed slightly, which makes us all want to have more and win more,” Salah said.
“That’s not to say we didn’t want to win more, but change can help the team and I was never motivated to win the Premier League.
“With Jurgen we always had one system. We stuck to what we were doing with him no matter what.
“We did this for seven to eight years. The new manager changes something slightly, depending on the game. We didn’t do that before.
Liverpool are on a 23-game unbeaten run before facing Manchester United, 14th and 23 points behind them, at Anfield on Sunday (4:30 p.m. GMT).
