Mo Salah's Career Crossroads: What’s Next for the Liverpool Legend?

Mo Salah stands at a crossroads. Not on the touchline at Anfield this time, but in his career.

On Tuesday night he was in the thick of a World Cup thriller, part of an Egypt side that led Argentina 2-0 after 78 minutes only to be dragged into a storm and beaten 3-2, Enzo Fernandez striking deep into stoppage time. Agony for Egypt. Another big stage, another reminder that Salah still lives for the sharpest edges of elite football.

Now he’s a free agent.

After nine years at Liverpool, after 211 goals and a place as the club’s third-highest scorer of all time, the 34-year-old has stepped away. No transfer fee, no farewell lap of honour this summer. Just the quiet, disorienting reality that one of the defining forwards of the Premier League era is suddenly on the market.

Calls from Saudi and MLS

The phone has not stayed quiet.

Fabrizio Romano, speaking on his YouTube channel, outlined the picture around Salah’s future. Saudi Arabia have never really gone away. Their interest stretches back “two or three years”, Romano said, with Salah described as a “top target” for clubs in the Saudi Pro League.

The money there is no secret. Nor is the ambition. Al-Ittihad tested Liverpool’s resolve three summers ago with a £150m bid on deadline day and were turned away. This time, they – or any other Saudi heavyweight – would not have to pay a fee. Only the wages, which will be enormous.

Romano added another twist. The MLS has made contact as well, with “some calls” placed to understand Salah’s situation and whether he could be tempted across the Atlantic. No offers, no done deals, but the groundwork has begun. MLS is on the table. Saudi is on the table. Both waiting for an answer.

For now, there is none. Romano made it clear: Salah and his long-time representative Ramy Abbas will take their time after the World Cup before deciding the next step.

The price of greatness

Any club chasing Salah knows the numbers. At Liverpool he earned around £400,000 per week. That level of salary instantly narrows the field in Europe, even with no transfer fee to negotiate. Only a handful of clubs can carry that weight on their wage bill, and fewer still would be willing to gamble it on a 34-year-old, however relentlessly professional.

Saudi Arabia can. MLS might, for the right commercial package and the right franchise. These are leagues that buy more than goals; they buy profile, narrative, global attention. Salah offers all three.

Yet the question hangs in the air: does he feel finished with Europe?

On the evidence of his performances last season and his display against Argentina, he still belongs in the game’s upper tier. His pace has been managed, his movement refined, his finishing untouched. Many players drift towards the sun at this stage of their career. Salah does not look like a man ready to “semi-retire”.

He may feel he has another Champions League run in him. Another title race. Another season tormenting full-backs under the brightest floodlights.

Life after Liverpool

Back on Merseyside, reality is setting in. For nearly a decade, the right flank at Anfield belonged to one man. The number 11 shirt, cutting inside on that left foot, became one of the most predictable and yet unstoppable sights in English football.

That is over now.

Liverpool will move on, as great clubs always do, but there will be an adjustment when the new season begins and Salah is not there, arms outstretched in front of the Kop after another curling finish. His departure closes a chapter that delivered a Premier League title, a Champions League crown and a flood of goals that dragged the club back to the summit.

For Salah, the next chapter is unwritten. Saudi riches, MLS glamour, or one last tilt at Europe’s peak. The calls have been made, the options are clear.

The decision, for once, rests entirely with him.