Mo Salah contract kills another Liverpool FC boast about Man City spending

Liverpool have made Mo Salah one of the best paid players in the Premier League - and ruined another critique of Manchester City's spending.

After months of speculation and worry over whether their Egyptian king would sign a new deal at Anfield, Friday brought the announcement out of the blue that the 30-year-old would be staying. And it quickly became clear that the player had been given his wish of being paid a salary to match his value in the league in order to break the deadlock - giving the man considered on Merseyside as the best in the division at least one of the biggest salaries.

Salah's new deal will see him earn close to £400,000 per week, according to reputable reports, which makes him not just the best-paid player in Liverpool's history but also one of the highest earners in the league. Some have him as the outright top earner ahead of Kevin De Bruyne and Erling Haaland, but it is indisputable that Liverpool are now doing something else that until recently they proudly insisted that they didn't.

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City and Liverpool have been the dominant forces in English football for the past four seasons, and in the midst of another gripping title race it was regularly pointed out that only one point has separated them since the beginning of the 2018/19 season - City earning 358 to Liverpool's 357 but winning three titles to one. This expertly reveals the fine margins that have separated the teams, but is also an artificial deadline: roll it back another year and the gap is 26 points; consider all of Pep Guardiola's time in England and it is greater still; measure from when Jurgen Klopp arrived and it is even bigger.

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