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Mohamed Salah has committed his future to Liverpool, postponing any move to Saudi Arabia for at least two years.

The Middle Eastern state have been hard at work trying to attract the biggest names in football to the Saudi Pro League, with Salah viewed by Saudi Arabia as a top target given his immense popularity in the Arab Muslim world.

With Salah signing a two-year extension with Liverpool earlier this month, though, Saudi Arabia will have to wait some time before they can make a renewed attempt to sign the 32-year-old attacker, who could still make the move when his new deal with the Reds expires in 2027.

And Saudi Arabia’s minister of sport has now shed some on light on how close Salah really was to making the move to the Middle East.

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Speaking to reporters at this weekend’s Saudi Arabian F1 Grand Prix, Prince Abdulaziz bin Turki Al-Faisal revealed that no talks took place between Salah and the Saudi Pro League despite intense rumours over the last two years.

With Luis Diaz linked with a move to Saudi Arabia this summer, there’s still a chance that a Liverpool attacker could be making the move to the Middle East in the off-season, with Salah now firmly off the table.

Al-Faisal said: “I mean, he’s a superstar.

He fits the identity of playing in the Saudi league.

It was his decision to renew with, but linking Saudi to him and everything, I think from day one they link Saudi to him.

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“Now you can see that any player wants to renew their contract or sign their, they [the media] are saying that they’re coming to Saudi and 90% of it is not true.

But I think we have a strategy that we’re working on and everyone is saying that we’re just signing any players.”

At 32-years-old and at the peak of his powers, it’s not hard to imagine Salah still being one of the best players in the world when the winger’s latest contract with Liverpool expires two years from now in 2027.

And Saudi Arabia could still be a realistic destination for Salah to end his career, who could be eyeing one final payday at the age of 34 before hanging up his boots as one of Liverpool’s and the Premier League’s greatest ever players.

Indeed, Salah is a player who could easily play until the age of 40 based on his fitness and injury record, and Saudi Arabia will not stop in their quest to bring the attacker to the Middle East given how big a coup he will be for football in the region.