Fifa rule change hands Al Hilal MASSIVE Mo Salah advantage

Liverpool are still hopeful of keeping Mohamed Salah at the club long term. The Egyptian King has got an expiring contract at Anfield, which reaches its end in summer 2025.

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No breakthrough over a new deal has yet been reached - despite the fact that Salah wants to stay and that Liverpool want to keep him.

However, there are significant gaps between what Salah wants and what FSG can offer. Therefore there is a contract standoff currently and that opens the door to other clubs.

January 1 marked the day when Salah - as well as Virgil van Dijk and Trent Alexander-Arnold - could negotiate pre-contract agreements with potentially interested overseas clubs.

Paris Saint-Germain are among the 32-year-old’s most prominent European suitors and are reportedly prepared to offer €400,000 per week. But those sums would be made to look insignificant if Al Hilal in Saudi Arabia follow through with their interest.

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Negotiators from the SPL side were reported to be in London recently to wrap up a deal for Salah. However, nothing was signed between the two parties.

Events in the past few days may well have emboldened Al Hilal with more space in the budget and the No10 shirt now vacant. Neymar is close to finalising a return to Santos, meaning his wasteful spell in Saudi Arabia is at an end.

And Al Hilal plan to use Neymar’s budget on a high-profile arrival for the upcoming Club World Cup.

Saudi Arabia’s flagship team are determined to acquit themselves well at the American tournament and have long eyed Salah as the man to carry the threat.

Plans were complicated by the fact that Salah would still be under contract at Liverpool by the time the tournament kicked off with a start date of June 14 pencilled in.

As Salah’s contract would not actually expire until June 30, there was no way to register him for the tournament.

But Al Hilal have now been given a boost in their chase for Salah with the Fifa council ratifying a change to the transfer window.

“The Fifa Council have approved regulations for the Club World Cup “which seek to address technicalities and equalise inconsistencies created by different registration periods… between participating clubs” according to Jason Burt in the Telegraph.

It effectively means an additional window for sides in the Club World Cup to register players, which could see Salah join up with his new teammates ahead of the tournament.

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