Mohammed Salah ready to join Saudi Pro League, says Emenalo

Saudi Pro League director of football, Michael Emenalo, believes Salah has resisted the lure of the lucrative Middle Eastern competition so far due to having “unfinished business” at Liverpool,  but has refused to rule out a move for the forward next summer, reports caughtoffside.com.

The Reds turned down a £150m offer from Al-Ittihad in 2023 for the winger and links to the Saudi league have remained ever since.

Emenalo was recently asked about the possibility of the 32-year-old playing in Saudi Arabia ahead of the 2025/26 campaign, to which the director of football said via The Liverpool Echo: “I think it depends on Mo.

“The stories that our teams went after him were true, it is true that there was an interest. But just like Victor Osimhen, it’s okay for me to have an interest in signing Mo, but the club have to have an interest in letting him go, and if those things don’t align, you don’t have a deal.

“Fundamentally, Liverpool didn’t want to sell and what price were we willing to buy at? We don’t want to buy at a ridiculous amount. The most important part is if the player is ready to come. I didn’t feel the player was ready to come because he felt like he had unfinished business.

“Very few players do it, but you have to leave the club in the right way. When you are at that level and you have done things, it’s important to leave the club in the right way.”

It remains to be seen if the 2024/25 campaign will be Salah’s last at Liverpool as everything at present remains open.

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