Liverpool Icon Jamie Carragher claims Mohamed Salah can have a long career at he highest level like five times Ballon D’or winner Cristiano Ronaldo.
Mohamed Salah extended his Liverpool contract till 2027. Salah becomes the record top earner in Liverpool’s history with a weekly wage of £350,000. coming off from a season where he won the PFA player of the year, the Premier League Golden Boot with 23 goals, and the Premier League playmaker of the season with 13 assists.
Jamie Carragher claims Mohamed Salah can keep his current form for the next three years as the Egyptian forward is 30 years old.
What did Jamie Carragher say?
In an interview with SkySports, the former Liverpool and England defender said: “The way he looks after himself, I think he can be like a Cristiano Ronaldo, still getting goals in the Premier League.
“The way Salah leads his life, I think there is a good chance over the next three years you will see no sort of drop-off in terms of his numbers.
“Salah is already a Liverpool legend and if he’d moved on in 12 months he’d have still been a legend.
“What players like him, Alisson, Van Dijk, Mane, how they’ve changed the face of Liverpool Football Club along with the manager means they will all be legends no matter when they move on for the club and for whatever reason they move on from the club.
“I think the supporters are very thankful for what these players have given. Salah will finish his time in the top five or six players ever to have played for the club.
“He’s certainly in Liverpool’s best-ever XI and there’s no doubt that right now he’s a Liverpool legend and hopefully he can enhance that reputation over the next three years.”
Meanwhile, Jamie Carragher admits Mohamed Salah deserves the £350,000 new wage.
Jamie Carragher added: “Losing Mane, it was sad to see that front three break up. Lots of Liverpool fans over the last few months were kind of resigned to the fact that Salah might see out the last 12 months of his contract and then move on. And perhaps the club was not maybe prepared to go the numbers he wanted or he felt he deserved and he would leave the club.
“But I think the fact that Origi has moved on and Mane has moved on and Liverpool have brought in maybe one attacking player who is on similar sorts of wages [in Darwin Nunez]. I think the fact that two have gone and one has come in means that they could maybe get closer to the numbers Salah wanted.
“I think everyone is just delighted Salah has signed and fingers crossed he produces over the next three years what he has produced over the last five years and I am sure that he can.
“Maybe money [was the main factor in negotiations]. There is nothing wrong with that. Salah has been as good as anybody in the Premier League or anyone in European football, certainly in his position, and he’ll feel he deserves to be paid as well as those. And we know the types of numbers other players get at other clubs.
“Liverpool has never really gone to that level in terms of numbers, certainly under FSG – and I think that a lot of Liverpool fans respect that model because it has brought a lot of success to the club so they almost accept how they go about things not just with player contracts but also with signing players.
“I don’t think there would have been much criticism if Salah had left. But I think now and again when you have someone as special as Salah the rule that you have to have in place you have to certainly bend them, maybe not necessarily break them but you have to maybe go closer to a position that maybe you don’t want to.”
