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When Mohamed Salah signed his last Liverpool contract, the news came out of the blue.

This summer, he will have one year left on his contract again — just as he did in 2022 — and negotiations are unlikely to be straightforward.

Salah's representative, Ramy Abbas Issa, caused plenty of stirs on social media the last time that Liverpool was in protracted conversations with his client.



In the end, Salah, then 30, became Liverpool's highest-paid player of all time.

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At that point, though, he had just won a third Golden Boot in five seasons and had collected multiple Player of the Year awards after firing Liverpool to every final possible and within a point of the Premier League title.

Sadio Mané had just departed for Bayern Munich and Salah was the superstar that Liverpool could not afford to lose at any cost.

This time, heading into the period in which negotiations could begin if they haven't already, things feel a little different.

He is not in the red-hot form that he was when Liverpool was negotiating the last time.

That is not to say, of course, that Salah should not get another contract.

The promises made to many a stellar name (including Jordan Henderson) last summer have so far spectacularly failed to come off.

That is a key factor that should make negotiating a new deal for Salah easier for Liverpool but so too is that he is not currently the best player on the planet, as he was the last time.