By Lehlohonolo Lehana.
Mo Salah has said this season will be his “last year” at Liverpool, adding that “nobody has talked to me” about his expiring contract.
Salah, 32,whose current deal at Anfield is set to expire next summer, scored in the Reds’ thumping 3-0 win at Manchester United.
He said afterwards he had treated the match like it was his last at Old Trafford.
“I was coming to the game, I was saying, ‘look, it could be the last time’,” he told Sky Sports.
“Nobody in the club talked to me yet about contracts so I was just like, ‘OK, I play my last season and see at the end of the season’.
“I feel I am free to play football – we will see what happens next year.”
When asked about Salah’s comments, manager Arne Slot said: “It’s a lot of ‘if’. At this moment he is one of ours and I am really happy with him being one of ours and he played really well.
“I don’t talk about contracts from players but I can talk for hours about how Mo played today.”
In July 2022, Salah signed a new three-year deal, making him reportedly the highest paid player in the club’s history, on more than £350,000 a week.
Salah, whose contract expires next July, has been at Anfield since the summer of 2017, when he signed from Roma for a then club-record fee.
Liverpool turned down a verbal offer worth more than £100m for Salah from Saudi Pro League side Al Ittihad at the end of the summer transfer window in 2023.