Liverpool forward Mohamed Salah has signed a new contract to extend his eight-year stay at Anfield, the Premier League club said.
The 32-year-old Egyptian international previously had spells with Chelsea in the Premier League and Roma in Italy’s Serie A.
Speculation had been mounting all season that the forward may be set to end his stay at Anfield, with Salah stating in December that a deal was “far away”.
A move to the Saudi Pro League had been heavily rumoured as the next destination for the forward with reports that champions Al Ittihad tabled a world record 215-million-pound ($280m) offer as early as September 2023.
“Of course I’m very excited. We have a great team now. Before also we had a great team. But I signed because I think we have a chance to win other trophies and enjoy my football,” Salah said in a statement on Friday.
“It’s great, I had my best years here. I played eight years, hopefully it’s going to be 10. Enjoying my life here, enjoying my football. I had the best years in my career.
“I would like to say to [the fans], I am very, very happy to be here. I signed here because I believe we can win a lot of big trophies together. Keep supporting us and we’ll give it our best, and hopefully in the future we’re going to win more trophies.”
Our Egyptian King 👑 pic.twitter.com/S60HnkEF9n
— Liverpool FC (@LFC) April 11, 2025
Salah has been either tied or alone as the Premier League’s top scorer in three seasons, been voted as the league’s player of the year twice, and lifted seven major trophies including the Premier League in 2020 and the Champions League in 2019.
Helped by Salah’s league-leading 27 goals this campaign, Liverpool holds an 11-point lead in the Premier League in its bid for a record-tying 20th English top-flight title.
Liverpool manager Arne Slot said he knew for some time that Salah was likely to stay at the club and praised sporting director Richard Hughes for securing the forward’s future.
“Mo Salah is such a great player that as a free agent he can go probably to every club in the world, wherever he wants to,” Slot said. “But he stayed at our club.”
Attention now turns to whether Van Dijk and Alexander-Arnold will follow Salah in committing their future to Liverpool.
Van Dijk, the commanding Netherlands centre-back, who has been at Anfield since 2018, said in comments reported Monday that he was getting closer to signing a new contract.
Alexander-Arnold, however, is the most likely to leave Liverpool, having been linked heavily with a move to Real Madrid.
Arne Slot declared himself 'very happy' with the news that Mohamed Salah has signed a new contract with the Reds 😃💬
— Liverpool FC (@LFC) April 11, 2025
