Liverpool plan to make Salah Premier League’s best-paid player with new mega £22.4m-a-year deal

LIVERPOOL could be ready to make Mo Salah the Premier League’s top-paid star on £22.4million a year. Reports in Spain suggest the Egypt striker – linked with Real Madrid earlier this summer – is close to a new £430,000-a-week contract. That package is understood to rival the wages of Manchester United frontman Alexis Sanchez. Salah […]

LIVERPOOL could be ready to make Mo Salah the Premier League’s top-paid star on £22.4million a year.

Reports in Spain suggest the Egypt striker – linked with Real Madrid earlier this summer – is close to a new £430,000-a-week contract.

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That package is understood to rival the wages of Manchester United frontman Alexis Sanchez.

Salah only signed a deal extension up to 2023 last summer but the Reds are said to be offering an extra year on even more pay.

The former Roma star, 27, has hit 54 goals in 74 Prem games since joining in 2017.

After winning both the PFA and Football Writers’ player of the year awards the following term, Salah helped Liverpool win the Champions League and finish as Prem runners-up last season.

But he is currently still recovering from hosts Egypt crashing out of the African Cup of Nations at the last-16 stage, losing 1-0 to outsiders South Africa in Cairo.

The ex-Chelsea wideman collapsed in tears along with team-mates after Egypt had been tipped to at least match their tournament performance of last time out, reaching hte 2017 final.

Bernabeu chief Zinedine Zidane remains a big admirer of Salah.

But there has been no firm approach this summer after Real reportedly tried to sign him a year ago when Cristinao Ronaldo left for Juventus.

Having already lured Chelsea playmaker Eden Hazard, Zidane could yet raid the Prem again, though – with Manchester United midfielder Paul Pogba also on his wishlist.