Salah’s Future Update as Agent Hints at Conclusion
The Mohamed Salah saga is edging towards a conclusion, and this time the message has come from the one man who actually knows what is happening.
Ramy Abbas Issa, Salah’s long-time agent and close confidant, has again taken to social media to address the forward’s future after his Liverpool exit – and hinted that the wait for clarity is almost over.
Salah walked away from Anfield this summer, ending a glittering nine-year spell by mutual agreement with the club and terminating his contract a year early to leave on a free transfer. He departed having rewritten Liverpool’s modern record books and with 442 appearances to his name, the last of them coming just hours before Abbas first publicly pushed back against the swirl of rumours.
Since then, the 32-year-old’s next move has been football’s open question. The Egypt international, who helped his country into the last 16 of the World Cup, has been heavily linked with a switch to the Saudi Pro League, where Al-Hilal have been widely viewed as the leading contenders. MLS sides in the United States have explored the possibility of luring him across the Atlantic, while Turkish giants Galatasaray, Fenerbahce and Besiktas have all registered interest.
Noise has not been in short supply. Reliable information has.
This is where Abbas stepped back in.
“We still do not know where Mohamed will play next season but we may know very soon,” he posted, signalling that talks are now reaching a decisive phase. The second line of his message was pointed, and very deliberate: “It is not our style to have discussions with clubs that Mohamed wouldn’t want to play for, just for the sake of noise.”
In other words: the shortlist is real, it is tight, and Salah himself is driving it. No shop window games. No leverage tours.
The post continues a pattern from Abbas over the last two months, as speculation around Salah has intensified. On May 24, the day the forward pulled on a Liverpool shirt for the 442nd and final time, Abbas fired an early warning shot at the transfer rumour mill.
“We do not know where Mohamed will play next season,” he wrote. “This also means that no one else knows. Beware of the click-w****** attention seekers.”
The message was clear. Ignore the pretend insiders. If it isn’t coming from Salah’s camp, treat it as theatre.
On June 12, with interest mounting and reports multiplying, Abbas doubled down on that stance. “Mohamed is doing perfectly fine and neither he nor I prefer to discuss sensitive future plans with people not involved in them,” he said. “Both he and I are very private about these things. Yes, people may ask and they may get a standard polite response but that’s about it.”
That line – “very private about these things” – has defined this summer. While clubs circle and offers are drawn up, Salah has stayed largely silent in public, allowing only his agent to sketch the outline of what comes next.
Now, though, the tone has shifted. The latest update is not a denial, not a distancing from rumours, but a timeline. “We may know very soon” is as close as this camp comes to a countdown.
Al-Hilal’s financial power, the MLS pitch of a new stage in the United States, the pull of Champions League football with a Turkish heavyweight – all are on the table. What is not in doubt is that Salah will choose carefully. At this stage of his career, with his Liverpool chapter closed on his own terms, the next move will define his late prime.
The guessing game will continue on the outside. Inside Salah’s circle, the decision is clearly advancing. The next club of one of the modern game’s most devastating forwards is no longer a distant question.
It is a matter of days.
