Liverpool Under-23 assistant coach Gary O’Neil has told talkSPORT that he has heard only positive things about Mohamed Salah in training.
Salah – who has been on the books of Liverpool since the summer of 2017 when he joined from AS Roma for a transfer fee reported by BBC Sport to be worth £34 million – suggested to AS last week that he is open to playing for Real Madrid or Barcelona, and added that his future is in the hands of the defending Premier League champions.
The 28-year-old forward has been superb for the Reds over the years, and played an important role in the Merseyside club winning the Premier League title and the Champions League over the past two seasons.
Salah’s comments to AS will worry some Liverpool fans, but Under-23 assistant coach O’Neil has allayed their concerns that the former Chelsea attacking player wants to leave.
O’Neil told talkSPORT about Salah: “I’m keen to judge it on performances and the guy that came on for half an hour against Crystal Palace doesn’t seem unhappy, for me.
“What I’m hearing about how hard he works in training and how bubbly he is around the ground, I don’t see it being an issue. Players will give interviews and, sometimes, especially when they are done in other countries and other languages, there will be stuff that comes back.
“I think you have to judge him on his performances and for me he doesn’t look like a guy unhappy at Liverpool Football Club. What I hear about how he trains and how hard he works he definitely doesn’t give off the notion that he is unhappy.”
Liverpool stay
Madrid and Barcelona are massive clubs, but Liverpool are big as well and are the defending Premier League champions.
Los Blancos and the Blaugrana are not dominated European football at the moment, and there is no (financial) need for Liverpool to sell Salah.
The Egypt international forward is delivering the goods for the Reds at the moment and is banging in the goals for fun, and the likelihood is that he will stay at Anfield for a few more years.
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