Mo Salah SHOCKWAVES as FSG fumble their biggest decision

Things are falling apart at Liverpool as FSG continue to blunder the Mo Salah situation. There must be a solution.

The Mo Salah situation rumbles on. As you'll be perfectly aware, Salah's contract expires at the end of the season and he's yet to get a new one.

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That's been the case all season, of course, but things changed two days ago. With the turn of the new year, non-English clubs are completely free to negotiate with Salah over a move.

Now, he can't actually join them until his Liverpool contract ends but he is able to accept a pre-contract. The Reds lost their sole-negotiating rights if you want to think of it in another way.

Any offers coming from Liverpool are now up against formal offers elsewhere. That's not a good thing.

What makes it worse is that this should be a simple one.

Mo Salah - the World's best

Salah is the best player on the planet right now. We're not sure who could possibly dispute that given he has over 30 goal involvements and is yet to even play in 2025.

This is the first time that the world's best player actively wants to sign a contract with Liverpool. Genuinely, that has never happened before.

Great players have wanted to play for the Reds but the absolute world's best? They're typically looking elsewhere. Liverpool have always lacked the financial power to sign him.

Salah actively wants to, though. Liverpool can afford him, too, as they've been paying him massive wages for the last two and a half years.

But doubts over his long-term abilities are proving difficult to overcome. It leaves us with this situation, one in which Liverpool don't want to take any risks. They're worried Salah will sign this contract and immediately decline.

And that hesitation is shocking, quite honestly.

FSG are fumbling it all

So that's the scenario FSG are handed. The world's best player wants to play for their club but he's a bit old.

On Friday, Sky Sports released an interview with Salah that gave us all an update on how FSG are handling things.

"It's the last six months," said Salah. "There is no progress there. We are far away from any progress.

"So, we just need to wait and see."

That came after Salah actively described this season as his 'last at the club'. It could not be more clear that Liverpool aren't convincing their star player that he'll be remaining. Or that they particularly want him.

But let's also take a step back and look at what's happening here. This is the first big test of the new FSG plan at Liverpool.

It's one where Arne Slot isn't a 'manager' but a 'head coach'. Where there's a new sporting director, who is an old friend of the old sporting director, who's now the 'Chief Executive of Football' at FSG.

Slot isn't supposed to be at the forefront of business deals, including contracts and transfers. Yet because he's the face of the club, he's the one getting the questions - questions he can't answer.

There are absolutely zero mouthpieces beyond Slot, so the only person giving any sort of updates on Salah's contract is Mo Salah. And he's not even giving the updates FSG and Liverpool would want people to hear.

It's a bizarre situation and one that's being handled poorly in every which way. The actual negotiations quite plainly aren't going well, given Salah isn't even the only superstar in this situation.

Then the PR game isn't even being played well because we're only hearing the side Liverpool don't want public.

FSG's legacy

We're also not sure FSG recognise what effect this will have on their Liverpool legacy. Yes, the titles are there and they're lovely.

But there is a sense that those titles were delivered in spite of the owners, rather than because of them. Jurgen Klopp is the saviour, not the ownership. Arne Slot is the one working wonders, not the big new plan.

After all, Slot hasn't even been given anything to work with beyond a contract from Liverpool. Not even a player. All they've handed him is a world of uncertainty and poor planning.

Fumbling the world's best player when he wants to sign would only support that narrative. It would support the narrative that Klopp knew when to jump ship. That Slot is a miracle worker who deserves better.

And they better hope he is just that. Because if that title isn't delivered and Salah isn't re-signed, things will turn sour at Liverpool. Quickly.

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