Anfield great John Aldridge has urged Liverpool yet again to secure a new long-term deal for star winger Mohamed Salah following his explosive run of form.
Salah was on the scoresheet in the 3-1 win over the league’s new boys Norwich City with the Egypt international bringing up his 150th goal for the Merseysiders.
In his column for the Sunday World, Aldridge lavished praise upon the Liverpool dangerman with the former claiming that Salah was in line to be considered as one of the greatest players in the club’s history should he clinch a few more trophies.
“Mohamed Salah scored his 150th goal for Liverpool in yesterday’s 3-1 win against Norwich – and now the door is ajar for him to join the true greats of the club.
“Many Liverpool fans will argue the Egyptian maestro should already be considered to be one of the club’s all-time icons and the scoring statistics he is producing suggest he deserves that recognition.
“Yet this is a football club with a long list of great strikers and Salah needs to do even more before he can leap ahead of Ian Rush, Kenny Dalglish, Robbie Fowler, or my all-time hero Roger Hunt on the list of great Liverpool strikers.
“Now if Salah signs a new four-year contract with the club and goes on to score 250 goals, win a couple more Premier League titles and maybe another Champions League, he would have real claims to be alongside Rush, Dalglish and the Liverpool greats.
“So I hope the club’s owners appreciate what they have on their hands here because even if Salah and his agent are demanding silly money for this new contract, Liverpool have to give it to him.”
Aldridge’s remarks come amid the long-drawn standoff at Anfield between the Liverpool hierarchy and Salah’s representatives over a new deal for the 29-year-old attacker to put pen to paper on.
The likes of Real Madrid and Paris Saint-Germain remain in the fray for Salah’s signature should the player choose to call it quits at Liverpool come the summer.
