Journalists Chris Bascombe (Telegraph) and Tony Barrett (The Times) join forces on Monday morning to announce – once again – that Liverpool will make a move for FC Basel’s winger Mohamed Salah in January.
The basic transfer rumours is far from new.
Salah, who came on the radar of many English football fans this season leading FC Basel to a shock win at Chelsea in the Champions League, has been earmarked for a move to Anfield for weeks now, with the likes of ex-Egypt national coach Bob Bradley also seeming to ratify that the deal will happen at the start of January.
Yes despite all the column inches and paper chat, Liverpool are yet to lodge a bid for the 21-year-old star, and now it seems that the stumbling block in the deal is money.
Chris Bascombe writes:
Liverpool will this week make a formal bid for Egyptian winger Mohamed Salah, who is valued at £12million by his Swiss club FC Basel.
Liverpool will make a formal bid for Basel winger Mohamed Salah this week. The club have been planning a move for the Egyptian since the January transfer window opened, but the valuation of £12 million has been prohibitive.
Those sentiments have been backed up by Liverpool-based journalist Tony Barrett on Twitter.