Mo Salah tipped for Saudi Arabia move by Liverpool legend

Stuart Telford

• 3 Sept 2023 11:05 BST
• 3 min read

The European transfer window slammed shut on Saturday with Mohamed Salah still a Liverpool player, but Reds legend Robbie Fowler thinks it's only a matter of time before he ends up in the Saudi Pro League.

Al-Hilal reportedly bid £150 million for Salah's services, and were prepared to offer the Egyptian £200m a year in Saudi Arabia, seeing him draw level with Cristiano Ronaldo and Karim Benzema as the game's highest paid player.

But Liverpool dismissed their bid out of hand, with Jurgen Klopp saying that: "from my point of view, I see absolutely nothing to worry about. Mo is super committed," when asked about it.

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But the Saudi Pro League has a different calendar from European football, and their clubs can still make signings until Thursday 7 September. Al-Hilal have been tipped to lift their offer to £200m to Liverpool, and Fowler thinks Salah will go eventually.

Fowler: 'Salah will be ending up here'

"There's still a week left in the Saudi transfer window, and I can tell you Salah will be ending up here," Fowler, who is now based in Saudi Arabia, wrote in his personal Daily Mirror column.

"Maybe not in this window, but sometime soon, because of who he is, and just how many people here want it to happen so desperately. There's no doubt he's by far the most famous footballer in this part of the world and, as I said last week, they want him to be the face of the Saudi Pro League."

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Fowler scored 183 goals in 369 games for Liverpool across two spells between 1992 and 2007, putting him seventh on the club's all-time scoring charts. Salah is fifth, with 187 strikes from 307 games and counting.

Salah's former Liverpool teammates Fabinho and Jordan Henderson have already made the move to the Saudi Pro League, while Henderson has been joined by former Reds favourite Gini Wijnaldum at Steven Gerrard's Al-Ettifaq.