Salah reveals secret Liverpool contract talk details in Harvard study
Robin Bairner
- Updated: 26 Sept 2023 13:27 BST
- 4 min read
Mohamed Salah’s latest round of contract talks with Liverpool have become the subject of a study for Harvard Business School – and has given supporters unique insight into what goes on behind the scenes when these deals are thrashed out.
Salah spent the summer months linked with a possible move to the Saudi Pro League, and the 31-year-old’s future remains a source of speculation as he moves into the final two years of his current deal with the side who sit second in the table.
The Egypt international signed this contract back in July 2022, which saw him boost his salary to £350,000 per week to become the highest-paid player in club history.
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“It takes a little bit of time, I think, to renew, but now everything is done so we just need to focus on what's next,” Salah revealed at the time, and now the process behind his thinking has been explored by Harvard.
The American institution was reviewing the contract talks as part of a study to discover how agreements are reached.
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Salah’s Liverpool negotiations revealed
Anita Elberse, a professor at the Harvard Business School, took to social media to state: “New case alert! An examination of the unparalleled Mohamed Salah, his agent Ramy Abbas, and their contract negotiations with Liverpool FC last summer.”
And Salah shared a page of the study on his Instagram followers, who would doubtless have wondered what caused a delay in the agreement a year ago, leading to some nervy times.
From what the document indicates, Reds fans were right to be jumpy.
.@harvardHBS @RamyCol pic.twitter.com/qowgz3z25d
— Mohamed Salah (@MoSalah) September 24, 2023
“I am starting to fear that we may not be able to come to an agreement on a new contract, Mohamed - their latest offer is still very far from what we want,” Abbas said.
Salah’s aim, though, was always to remain with the club as he admitted: “I want to stay with Liverpool but the club needs to show that they want me to stay as well.”
Just a year on, there is again uncertainty over Salah’s future, despite the forward scoring or assisting in each of Liverpool’s first six Premier League matches this season.
