Saudi, Fenerbahce and PSG line up as Salah closes in on his next club
Mohamed Salah is closing in on the second part of his farewell. The Egyptian forward confirmed on March 24 that he is leaving Liverpool at the end of the 2025-26 season, and the next reveal, of where he actually plays his football from the summer, looks set to follow within days.
"In a few days he will announce his next destination," Egypt media coordinator Muhammad Murad told reporters at the end of April, suggesting the decision has already been taken even if the public reveal has not. Salah's agent Ramy Abbas Issa has been keener to play the mystery angle, telling outlets that "no one knows" where his client is heading. Either way, the timeline is short.
A free agent with a long list
Salah will leave Anfield on a free transfer after agreeing to cut short by a year a contract that had been due to run until 2027. That status, on top of the 435 appearances and 255 goals across nine seasons since his 2017 move from Roma, has every wealthy operator in world football at least running the numbers.
Saudi Arabia has been the loudest of those operators. Al-Ittihad have been most consistently linked, with Saudi Pro League rivals expected to push hard if a deal opens up. Turkey has weight behind it too, with Fenerbahce reportedly positioning themselves at the front of any European queue, and Galatasaray having been mentioned earlier in the year before fading from the conversation.
From the European elite, the names doing the rounds include Paris Saint-Germain and Bayern Munich. Both came from Egypt's technical director Ibrahim Hassan, who told reporters he had "heard about offers" from PSG, Bayern and clubs in the Italian league. Bayern were quick to push back, with director of sport Max Eberl insisting flatly that "Mohamed Salah did not receive any offer from Bayern." Juventus, the most credible Italian name in the mix because of the Luciano Spalletti link from Salah's Roma days, have also distanced themselves: sporting director Marco Ottolini told 365Scores that talk of negotiations was "not true" and that there was "absolutely nothing" concrete on a deal.
Salah's own pitch: "a lot of good options"
Salah himself has been deliberately neutral in public. Asked about his future last weekend, he said only that he had "a lot of good options" and that he was taking his time over the next chapter. That noncommittal tone fits a player who has been at the centre of a noisy farewell window already, the original Instagram message in March cast as "the first part" of his goodbye for a reason.
What the player wants in concrete terms is harder to read. A move to the Saudi Pro League would be the most lucrative path and the one most consistent with the Saudi project's pattern of luring star names at the back end of their European peaks. A move to Fenerbahce or PSG would keep him at the highest competitive level and would allow at least one more shot at the Champions League, the trophy he has already lifted with Liverpool but never won as the central figure of a campaign.
What this leaves Liverpool with
For Liverpool, the practical question now is what to plan around. The 33-year-old has been the centrepiece of their attack for so long that any honest summer rebuild has to start with replacing his output. Recruitment has already been busy outside the front line, beating Chelsea to Stade Rennais defender Jeremy Jacquet on a deal worth up to £60 million in February for a July 2026 arrival, and the early signals are that the club is treating the post-Salah era as a multi-window project rather than a single-summer fix.
The Salah era is ending without much drama about the basics. The departure is confirmed, the free transfer is locked in, and his camp insists the next destination is now days away. Everything else is still up to him.
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