Liverpool's move to renew Mohamed Salah's contract during the summer was an expensive move but one that they could ill afford to get wrong. The clamour for Salah to extend his stay at Liverpool was great among Reds fans, the Egyptian so crucial to the club's recent successes, his time at Anfield seeing him join the Premier League's hundred goals club, the second fastest player in Liverpool history to reach a century of goals for the club, behind only the late, great Roger Hunt.
Salah's new deal, which now runs until 2025, makes him the highest player in Liverpool history by some margin, his annual wages reported to be in the region of £350,000 per week.
Football fans have almost become desensitised to those kind of numbers in recent years as the money into the game has boomed and transfer fees and wages have risen dramatically as a result. A weekly wage of around that figure for Salah would place him among the elite bracket of world footballers but still some way behind the likes of Cristiano Ronaldo at Manchester United, the 37-year-old still commanding around £480,000 per week.
