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On the move: Mo Salah has hinted that his future might not be at Anfield, but a move to La Liga seems unlikely given the financial plight of Barca and Real. Photo: Getty Images
Sam Wallace
There are several rules for players who are at the top of the game – the elite little knot on the long list that includes the mediocre, the good, and the excellent. It is an exclusive grouping that Mohamed Salah is in now.
The Liverpool striker is nearing the big financial settlement of his career with the most aces.
He is 28 years old and has two years left this summer Time for his Liverpool contract. It is time to grasp the most lucrative contract of his career – be it at Anfield or, as he indicated with the slightest brushstroke, elsewhere.
A move to Spain has been the last page of the negotiating book for the best players for so long the Premier League – some of which left and some of which stuck to improved deals. It was so ingrained that it must be hard to accept that it’s gone now.
Real Madrid and Barcelona are drowning in the kind of debt that makes their finances precarious and unable to take the kind of Reaching the cash mountain hostility necessary to keep a player like Salah away from a club like Liverpool.
But old tactics die hard, so before Christmas came Salah’s interview with ‘Diario AS’. The act of giving an audience to a Spanish newspaper was enough to get a message across, no matter how little he actually said.
There was a conciliatory tone this week when he was speaking as part of a club arranged series spoke of interviews with the Norwegian broadcaster TV2. « I don’t know, » he said of his future. « … it is in the hands of the club. »
The pressure from the two biggest Spanish clubs is no longer there and the English clubs know it. Years of accumulation of debt and poor financial management by Real and Barcelona, now being accelerated by Covid-19, have got them in trouble.
When it comes to Salah’s future, who could Liverpool be against other than themselves bid yourself? Paris St-Germain and Manchester City may still be able to afford it, but the financial and other costs are difficult to resolve.
No wonder Real Madrid President Florentino Perez is in. This week Spain met frequently with the European superleague apostle Andrea Agnelli, chairman of Juventus. It can’t come soon enough for Perez’s club, where the next big problem is the half-yearly payroll on June 30th. Their debts were increased through a 575 million euro loan program to rebuild the Bernabeu at an additional cost of 160 million euros.
They have government-secured loans of 205 million euros that brought them through summer wage payments . You have a payment arrears of € 140 million. The US hedge fund Providence has a loan of around EUR 130 million as well as other bank debts and payments for transfers that would increase their debt to over EUR 1 billion.
It’s just as bad in Barcelona, Where the players got on the club’s creditors list this month by deferring wages of 172 million euros from payroll for the half year.
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