Egyptian Youth and Sports Minister Ashraf Sophie has confirmed the direction for Egyptian football star Mohamed Salah to renew his contract with current English club Liverpool.

“I advised Salah to end his career at a club other than Liverpool, but his current direction is to sign a new contract with the English team,” Sophie said in a statement broadcast by Egyptian Youth and Sports Radio on Monday evening.

British media reports over the weekend indicated that Salah, who has been linked with the “Reds” until 2023, is close to reaching an agreement on a new contract that will keep him “on the field” until the end of his football career.

Since coming to Anfield from Rome, Italy in the summer of 2017, Salah has established himself as one of the best English Premier League stars and has been instrumental in leading the Reds to their first league title since the 1990s (2019-2020 season). ) And to win the Champions League. Club World Cup and European Super Cup (2019), in addition to the League Cup this season.

Salah was crowned top scorer in his first season (32 goals), then joined his Senegalese teammate Sadio Mane and former Arsenal top scorer Gabonese Pierre Emerick Abamayang (22 goals). Al-Masri continues his brilliance this season, leading the way with twenty goals so far, along with his Portuguese teammate Djokovic and South Korean striker Son Hyung-min (14) for Tottenham.

Salah raised his controversy after the disappointing defeat to teammate Mane and Senegal in the final of the African Cup of Nations, after Qatar’s dream of qualifying for the World Cup 2022 at the hands of the same team came to an end. Future with the national football team, “Whether you are or not” he considers it an “honor” to play with his country.

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