Barcelona face massive transfer roadblock as Liverpool forward is close to renewing his contract

The narrative revolving around Liverpool forward Mohamed Salah could take a turn for the worse, at least for Barcelona, as a report from the Daily Mirror has quoted that the Egypt forward is close to agreeing a new contract with the Reds that will tie him up until the best years of his career.

Salah, 29, has a contract with Liverpool 2023 and it wasn’t so long ago that the player had rejected the new contract bid. Fabrizio Romano, in March, confirmed that although Salah loves Liverpool, he wasn’t happy with the deal the Reds were proposing.

Shunning off Liverpool’s attempt to tie him up for a longer tenure made Salah one of the most in-demand players across Europe, and as one can suspect, Barcelona’s name was on the top of the list.

However, since the player shares a heartwhelming relationship with the team as well as the fan, he is willing to compromise only on one condition that Liverpool match his wages to that of Manchester United’s Cristiano Ronaldo, who is reportedly pocking £500,000-a-week.

The figure that translates to almost €600,000-a-week becomes a grand total of €31.5 million per year in salary. This also includes an additional one-year tenure than the initially proposed three-year deal. This would effectively see him playing out the best remaining years of his career.

Since Egypt have missed out on the World Cup, Liverpool are expected to speed up the contract process, which would end each and every rumour of Salah’s potential exit in the summer.

This is rightly expected to affect most of Barcelona’s transfer market plans since the 29-year-old was among the top forwards the team was planning to approach.