Liverpool pulled off two of its most important pieces of business in recent times, several weeks before the summer's first transfer window opened.

The contract extensions of Mohamed Salah and Virgil van Dijk ensured Liverpool kept hold of two players who have been integral to the Reds' many successes over the last few years.

Also, ahead of a heavy summer spend which has seen Liverpool bring in Florian Wirtz and Jeremie Frimpong — with Milos Kerkez to come — the extensions meant that the Reds would not need to enter the market for replacements for Van Dijk and Salah as well.



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Aged 33, Salah shows no sign of slowing down, and after a season in which he won the Premier League's Player of the Year award, also establishing himself as a Ballon d'Or contender, it would have cost a pretty penny to replace the Egyptian.

One only has to look at the prices being bandied around for players who are nowhere near as good as Salah to recognize just how important it was for Liverpool to keep its star player.

Tottenham, for example, is understood to have cooled its interest in Bournemouth's Antoine Semenyo because the Cherries are demanding in excess of £65 million ($88 million) for the forward.

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Semenyo is a good player, but he scored 11 goals in 37 Premier League appearances this season, which are not stats befitting of the price tag that Bournemouth has put on him.

Salah's current market value, according to Transfermarkt, is €50 million ($58 million), but that low value relative to his standing as one of the world's best players is solely due to his age — his market value topped out at €150 million ($174 million) a few years ago, when he was still in his mid-20s.

Salah revealed last month that he thought there was a high chance that he would leave Liverpool this summer due to the club's usual reluctance to hand multi-year extensions to players in their 30s.

Asked in a Sky Sports interview with Gary Neville what percentage chance he thought that there would have been of him staying at the club, Salah responded: "Based on the club's history, 10 percent

"We know the philosophy of the club

I'm not attacking them, just I know how they deal with their players over 30 in the past.

"I know how the situation would be

In my head, based on the club's philosophy, I will not stay.

"We know how the club works, it's not something bad, we'd just seen how they deal with the situation in the past
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